The 1947 UMass Redmen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1947 college football season as a member of the NCAA's Yankee Conference.
 The team was coached by Thomas Eck and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts.
 The 1947 season was the first the team played under the UMass banner as the school changed its official name from Massachusetts State College that year.
 The athletics teams that represented the university also changed their names to coincide with the shift, moving from the Aggies to the Redmen.
 The Yankee Conference began play this season, as UMass joined together with the other land-grant colleges in New England to form the new alliance.
 UMass finished the season with a record of 3–4–1 overall and 0–1–1 in conference play.
The Louisville Cardinals baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball program of the University of Louisville, located in Louisville, Kentucky.
 The program was a member of the NCAA Division I American Athletic Conference for the 2014 season and joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in July 2014.
 The Cardinals have played at Jim Patterson Stadium since the venue opened during the 2005 season.
 Dan McDonnell has been the program's head coach since the start of the 2007 season.
 As of the end of the 2016 season, the program has appeared in ten NCAA Tournaments and three College World Series.
 In conference postseason play, it has won two Big East Conference Baseball Tournaments.
 In regular season play, it has won two Metro Conference titles, four Big East Conference titles, one American Athletic Conference title, and one Atlantic Coast Conference title.
 Louisville also set the ACC record for most conference wins in a season with 25 on May 16, 2015.
The Gonzaga–Saint Mary's men's basketball rivalry is an intra-West Coast Conference college basketball rivalry between the Saint Mary's Gaels men's basketball team of Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California and the Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
 Many analysts and members of the media have touted the Gaels vs. Zags as one of the best, if not the best, college basketball rivalry on the West Coast, as both teams have been consistently two of the top three teams in the conference over the last 2 decades.
 Gonzaga and Saint Mary's have combined to win 19 out of the last 23 conference championship games, including 17 of the last 19 and each of the last nine.
 The two teams have met a total of 96 times dating back to 1955 and currently meet biannually as a part of WCC conference play, with the potential to play a third game in the WCC Tournament and a fourth in the postseason.
 As of March 2017, they have met 16 times in the WCC Tournament but have never met in any postseason tournaments beyond the end of conference play.
The Baylor Bears basketball team represents Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition.
 The Bears compete in the Big 12 Conference.
 The team plays its home games in Ferrell Center and is currently coached by Scott Drew.
The South Carolina State Bulldogs football team represents South Carolina State University in college football.
 The Bulldogs play in NCAA Division I Football Championship as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC).
 A historically dominant football program, the Bulldogs lead the MEAC in conference championships.
 The school has produced three players enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame including Harry Carson, Deacon Jones, and Marion Motley.
 Other legendary Bulldog players include Robert Porcher and Donnie Shell.
 Legendary former SC State Coach Willie Jeffries became the first African American Head Coach of a predominantly white Division 1-A football program, when he was hired to coach the Wichita State football program in 1979.
 Jeffries is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.
Dante Bert Joseph "Gluefingers" Lavelli (February 23, 1923 – January 20, 2009) was an American football end who played for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL) from 1946 to 1956.
 Starring alongside quarterback Otto Graham, fullback Marion Motley, placekicker Lou Groza and fellow receiver Mac Speedie, Lavelli was an integral part of a Browns team that won seven championships during his 11-season career.
 Lavelli was known for his sure hands and improvisations on the field.
 He was also renowned for making catches in critical situations, earning the nickname "Mr. Clutch".
 "Lavelli had one of the strongest pairs of hands I've ever seen," Browns coach Paul Brown once said of him.
 "When he went up for a pass with a defender, you could almost always count on him coming back down with the ball."
The Angelo State Rams baseball team represents Angelo State University in NCAA Division II college baseball.
 The team was resurrected in 2005 after a long hiatus because of continued student requests and support.
 The team belongs to the Lone Star Conference and plays home games at Foster Field, an on-campus field.
 The field was constructed in 2000 and features 4,200 seats, a Triple-A lighting system and an inning-by-inning scoreboard with a video display.
 It features major league style dugouts and locker rooms and a complete training facility, making it one of the most modern facilities in NCAA Division II college baseball.
 In 2015 2.1 million dollars of renovations were made to the facility, including adding an AstroTurf playing field, all new blue chair back seats, and padding the outfield wall.
 In addition the ASU Sports Complex consists of two NCAA regulation fields used for practice, along with indoor practice facilities.
 The Rams only coach has been Kevin Brooks.
 The only coach in ASU baseball history, he has a 219-134 Lone Star Conference record and an 14-11 record in five trips to the NCAA postseason.
 The Rams are the only Lone Star Conference team to ever make the College World Series and Brooks has taken them there three in only 12 seasons.
 The Rams have also won the Lone Star Conference tournament championship two times, including the 2015 LSC Championship when the team swept their way to the title and in 2012.
 His list of accomplishments includes the LSC South Division title in 2006, the Lone Star Conference and NCAA Division II South Central Regional titles in 2007,2015, and 2016, a semifinal appearance in the 2009 South Central Regional tournament and the LSC regular season and tournament championships in 2012.
 He has coached over 100 All-Lone Star Conference selections, 40 All-Region picks and 23 All-American selections.
 Brooks has also prepared his players for the next level as 22 former Rams have played or are currently playing professional baseball, including 7 in the last 2 years.
Marion Motley (June 5, 1920 – June 27, 1999) was an American Football fullback and linebacker who played for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL).
 He was a leading pass-blocker and rusher in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and ended his career with an average of 5.7 yards per carry, a record for a fullback that still stands.
 A versatile player who possessed both quickness and size, Motley was a force on both offense and defense.
 Fellow Hall of Fame running back Joe Perry once called Motley "the greatest all-around football player there ever was".
 Motley was also one of the first African-Americans to play the professional game in the modern era.
Johnathan Landus Motley (born May 4, 1995) is an American basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He is on a two-way contract and will divide time between the Mavericks and their NBA G League team, the Texas Legends.
 He played college basketball for the Baylor Bears, where he was an All-American as a junior.
Gaylon Wesley Smith (July 15, 1916 – March 10, 1958 ) was a professional American football fullback and defensive end who played five seasons for the Cleveland Rams in the National Football League (NFL) and one season for the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC).
 Before entering professional football, Smith starred as a halfback at Rhodes College and led the country in scoring in 1938.
 He was selected by the Rams in the second round of the following season's NFL draft and played for the Cleveland team until deciding to retire from the sport in 1943.
 After taking a job as a personnel director and playing on a regional basketball and baseball teams based in the Cleveland area, Smith joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 during World War II.
 He was discharged two years later and signed with the Browns, then a new team in the AAFC.
 Smith was a second-string player with the Browns, but substituted for an injured Marion Motley late in the season as the team won the AAFC championship game.
 Smith retired after the 1946 season, but stayed in Ohio to raise his family and work as a manufacturer's representative.
 He died in 1958 at the age of 41.

Question: What conference did the team that Johnathan Motley played for in college play in?
Answer: Big 12 Conference