In their second season under head coach Bunky Matthews, the team compiled a 10–2 record, shut out eight of twelve opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 331 to 66.
2 among the nation's smaller black college football teams by the Pittsburgh Courier using the Dickinson Rating System.
[2] The team played its home games in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Key players included quarterback "Sport" Anderson.
Bethune Cookman had a total enrollment of approximately 800 students in the fall of 1947.