The 1947 Lincoln Lions football team was an
American football team that represented
Lincoln University of Pennsylvania as a member of the
Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) 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 ...
. In their 13th season under head coach
Manuel Rivero, the team compiled a 5–4–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 164 to 120. The Lions were ranked No. 19 among the nation's black college football teams according to the ''
Pittsburgh Courier'' and its
Dickinson Rating System.
The team opened its season on September 20, 1947, with a game against
Lock Haven State Teachers College in what was billed as "possibly the first regularly-scheduled football game anywhere between a Negro college and a predominantly-white institution."
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The Lincoln Lions are the athletic teams that represent Lincoln University, located near Oxford in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.
The Lions compete as full members of the Central Intercollegiate Athlet ...