The 1947 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State College—now known as California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt—as a member of the Far Western Conference (FWC) during the

1947 college football season The 1947 college football season finished with Notre Dame, Michigan, and Penn State all unbeaten and untied, but the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame were the first place choice for 107 of the 142 voters in the final AP Poll in early December, and re ...

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Joseph Forbes Joseph M. Forbes (March 2, 1910 – January 20, 1976) was an American football and basketball coach and physical education professor. He was the head football coach at Humboldt State College—now known as Humboldt State University Californi ...

in his second and final season as head coach, the Lumberjacks compiled an overall record of 5–4 with a mark of 2–2 in conference play, placing third in the FWC, and outscored their opponents 159–131 for the season. The team played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. In the final Litkenhous Ratings released in mid-December, Humboldt was ranked at No. 392 out of 500 college football teams. Forbes finished his two-year tenure with an overall record of 10–7–1 ().

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