1947 Auburn Tigers football team

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.^[1]\

1947 Auburn Tigers football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Record	2–7 (1–5 SEC)
Head coach	Carl M. Voyles (4th season)
Home stadium	Auburn Stadium Legion Field Cramton Bowl
Seasons ← 1946 1948 →

1947 Southeastern Conference football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 13 Ole Miss $	6	–	1	–	0			9	–	2	–	0
No. 10 Georgia Tech	4	–	1	–	0			10	–	1	–	0
No. 6 Alabama	5	–	2	–	0			8	–	3	–	0
Mississippi State	2	–	2	–	0			7	–	3	–	0
Georgia	3	–	3	–	0			7	–	4	–	1
Vanderbilt	3	–	3	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Tulane	2	–	3	–	2			2	–	5	–	2
LSU	2	–	3	–	1			5	–	3	–	1
Kentucky	2	–	3	–	0			8	–	3	–	0
Tennessee	2	–	3	–	0			5	–	5	–	0
Auburn	1	–	5	–	0			2	–	7	–	0
Florida	0	–	3	–	1			4	–	5	–	1
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	Mississippi Southern*	Cramton Bowl Montgomery, AL	L 13–19	15,000	[2]
October 4	Louisiana Tech*	Auburn Stadium Auburn, AL	W 14–0	11,000	[3]
October 11	Florida	Cramton Bowl Montgomery, AL (rivalry)	W 20–14	13,000	[4]
October 18	at Georgia Tech	Grant Field Atlanta, GA (rivalry)	L 7–27	37,000	[5]
October 25	at Tulane	Tulane Stadium New Orleans, LA (rivalry)	L 0–40	30,000	[6]
November 1	at Vanderbilt	Dudley Field Nashville, TN	L 0–28	18,000	[7]
November 8	Mississippi State	Legion Field Birmingham, AL	L 0–14	20,000	[8]
November 15	vs. Georgia	Memorial Stadium Columbus, GA (rivalry)	L 6–28	22,000	[9]
November 22	at Clemson*	Memorial Stadium Clemson, SC (rivalry)	L 18–34	11,000	[10]
*Non-conference game Homecoming

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