| Year: | 1947 |
| Team: | Lincoln Lions |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
| Short Conf: | CIAA |
| Record: | 5–4–1 |
| Conf Record: | 3–3–1 |
| Head Coach: | Manuel Rivero |
| Hc Year: | 13th |
The 1947 Lincoln Lions football team was an American football team that represented Lincoln University of Pennsylvania as a member of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) during the 1947 college football season. In their 13th season under head coach Manuel Rivero, the team compiled a 5–4–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 164 to 120.[1] The Lions were ranked No. 19 among the nation's black college football teams according to the Pittsburgh Courier and its Dickinson Rating System.[2]
The team opened its season on September 20, 1947, with a game against Lock Haven State Teachers College in what was billed as "possibly the first regularly-scheduled football game anywhere between a Negro college and a predominantly-white institution."[3]