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1947 Vanderbilt Commodores football team

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1947 record
  
6–4 (3–3 SEC)

Home stadium
  
Dudley Field

Offensive scheme
  
Single-wing

Conference
  
Southeastern Conference

Head coach
  
Red Sanders (2nd year of 2nd stint; 5th overall year)

Captain
  
2 John North Tex Robertson

The 1947 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1947 college football season. The season featured the first top-20 ranking in the school history in 1947, where the team was ranked #10 after opening the season with two wins. The team defended its ranking with a defeat of #18 Mississippi, the first time Vanderbilt played a ranked school while ranked.

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1947 Vanderbilt Commodores football team Wikipedia