The 1947 Morgan State Bears football team was an American football team that represented Morgan State College in 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 19th season under head coach

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, the Bears compiled a 5–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 104 to 62. The team ranked No. 9 among the nation's black college football teams according to the '' Pittsburgh Courier'' and its Dickinson Rating System. Their only losses were to No. 7

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and No. 11 Howard.

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