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1947 Auburn Tigers football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ20806880 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1947 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1947 college football season. It was the Tigers' 56th overall and 15th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Carl M. Voyles, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Auburn Stadium in Auburn, the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of two wins and seven losses (2–7 overall, 1–5 in the SEC). Auburn was ranked at No. 114 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.

To date, 1947 is the last season that the Tigers did not play in-state archrival Alabama.

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“1947 Auburn Tigers football team” enters the record as american college football team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Auburn, Tigers and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Auburn, Tigers and football.
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