1947 Pepperdine Waves football team

1947 Pepperdine Waves football
Conference Independent
1947 record 9–0
Head coach Warren Gaer (2nd season)
Home stadium Sentinel Field

The 1947 Pepperdine Waves football team represented George Pepperdine College[note 1] during the 1947 college football season.[1]

The Waves played home games at Sentinel Field on the campus of Inglewood High School in Inglewood, California. Pepperdine finished the season with an undefeated record of nine wins and no losses (9–0), dominating their opponents by scoring 349 points and allowing only 26 over the entire season. That included 5 consecutive shutouts, with no opponent scoring more than 7 points.

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance
September 27 at Northern Arizona[note 2] Skidmore Field • Flagstaff, AZ W 60–7  
October 4 Redlands Sentinel Field • Inglewood, CA W 21–6  
October 11 Arizona State[note 3] Sentinel Field • Inglewood, CA W 27–6   10,249
October 18 Moiliili Bears (HI) Sentinel Field • Inglewood, CA W 34–7  
October 25 Whittier Sentinel Field • Inglewood, CA W 45–0   7,851
November 8 at Cal Poly Mustang Stadium • San Luis Obispo, CA W 47–0  
November 15 Humboldt State Sentinel Field • Inglewood, CA W 56–0   9,000
November 22 Caltech Sentinel Field • Inglewood, CA W 46–0  
December 5 at Loyola (CA)[note 4] Gilmore Stadium • Los Angeles, CA W 13–0   8,000

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Team players in the NFL

No Pepperdine Waves were selected in the 1948 NFL Draft.[4][5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Pepperdine University was known as George Pepperdine College from 1937–1970. More commonly it was simply called Pepperdine College. See: Pepperdine
  2. ↑ Northern Arizona University was known as Northern Arizona State College at Flagstaff from 1945–1957. See: Northern Arizona
  3. ↑ Arizona State University was known as Arizona State College from 1945–1957. See: Arizona State University
  4. ↑ Loyola Marymount University was known as Loyola University of Los Angeles from 1930–1973. See: Loyola Marymount

References

  1. ↑ "Pepperdine Football All-Time Results" (PDF). Archived from the original on January 3, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ "1947 - Pepperdine". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ Grenley, Dave (June 3, 2010). "The History of Pepperdine Football". Pepperdine Waves. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ "1948 NFL Draft". Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Pepperdine Players/Alumni". Retrieved February 15, 2017.
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