1947 Washington State Cougars football team

1947 Washington State Cougars football
ConferencePacific Coast Conference
Record3–7 (2–5 PCC)
Head coach
Home stadiumRogers Field
Seasons
← 1946
1948 →
1947 Pacific Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 8 USC $ 6 0 0 7 2 1
No. 15 California 5 1 0 9 1 0
Oregon 5 1 0 7 3 0
UCLA 4 2 0 5 4 0
Montana 2 1 0 7 4 0
Oregon State 3 4 0 5 5 0
Washington 2 5 0 3 6 0
Washington State 2 5 0 3 7 0
Idaho 1 4 0 4 4 0
Stanford 0 7 0 0 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1947 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State College in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1947 college football season. Phil Sarboe, in his third of five seasons as head coach at Washington State, led the team to a 2–5 mark in the PCC and 3–7 overall.[1]

Washington State was ranked at No. 64 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947.[2]

The Cougars' three home games were played on campus in Pullman at Rogers Field, with a nearby road game in Moscow against Palouse neighbor Idaho.

  1. ^ "2016 Media Guide" (PDF). WSUCougars.com. Washington State Cougars Athletics. p. 74. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 18, 1947). "Michigan National Champion in Final Litkenhous Ratings". Times. p. 47 – via Newspapers.com.