1947 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team

The 1947 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Texas Technological College (later known as Texas Tech University) as a member of the Border Conference during the 1947 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Dell Morgan, the team compiled a 6–5 record (4–0 against conference opponents), lost to Miami (OH) in the 1948 Sun Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 228 to 184.^[1]

1947 Texas Tech Red Raiders football
Border champion
Sun Bowl, L 12–13 vs. Miami (OH)
Conference	Border Conference
Record	6–5 (4–0 Border)
Head coach	Dell Morgan (7th season)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Base defense	6–2
Home stadium	Tech Stadium, Jones Stadium
Seasons ← 1946 1948 →

1947 Border Conference football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Texas Tech $	4	–	0	–	0			6	–	5	–	0
Hardin–Simmons	5	–	1	–	0			8	–	3	–	0
West Texas State	5	–	2	–	0			7	–	4	–	0
Arizona	3	–	2	–	0			5	–	4	–	1
Texas Mines	3	–	3	–	1			5	–	3	–	1
Arizona State	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	7	–	0
New Mexico	1	–	5	–	1			4	–	5	–	1
New Mexico A&M	1	–	4	–	0			3	–	6	–	0
Arizona State–Flagstaff	0	–	4	–	0			1	–	7	–	0
$ – Conference champion

In the final Litkenhous Ratings released in mid-December, Texas Tech was ranked at No. 140 out of 500 college football teams.^[2]

The team played its first four home games at Tech Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. The final home game of the season was played on November 29, 1947, at the new Clifford B. and Audrey Jones Stadium.^[3] The new concrete and steel stadium was built at a cost of $400,000 and was named in honor of the college's president emeritus and his wife.^[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 20	at Texas*	Memorial Stadium Austin, TX (rivalry)	L 33–0	30,000	[5]
September 27	vs. Texas A&M*	Alamo Stadium San Antonio, TX (rivalry)	L 29–7	20,000	[6]
October 4	West Texas State	Tech Stadium Lubbock, TX	W 21–13	11,000	[7]
October 11	Tulsa*	Tech Stadium Lubbock, TX	W 14–7	12,500	[8][9]
October 18	Baylor*	Tech Stadium Lubbock, TX (rivalry)	L 6–32	13,000–13,106	[10]
October 25	at Denver*	DU Stadium Denver, CO	W 36–7	17,947	[11]
November 1	at Rice*	Rice Field Houston, TX	L 40–7	16,000	[12]
November 8	Arizona	Tech Stadium Lubbock, TX	W 41–28	11,000	[13]
November 22	at New Mexico	Zimmerman Field Albuquerque, NM	W 26–20	10,000	[14]
November 29	Hardin–Simmons	Jones Stadium Lubbock, TX	W 14–6	20,000	[3]
January 1, 1948	vs. Miami (OH)*	Kidd Field El Paso, TX (Sun Bowl)	L 12–13	15,000	[15]
*Non-conference game Homecoming