1947 Pepperdine Waves football team

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1947 Pepperdine Waves football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
Home stadium Sentinel Field
Seasons
  1946
1948  
1947 Western college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Pepperdine   9 0 0
Hawaii   8 5 0
Nevada   7 2 0
San Francisco   7 3 0
Cal Poly San Dimas   4 4 1
Santa Clara   4 4 0
La Verne   3 4 0
Idaho State   3 5 1
Loyola (CA)   3 7 0
Saint Mary's   3 7 0
Portland   1 7 0

The 1947 Pepperdine Waves football team represented George Pepperdine College [note 1] as an independent 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 9–0, dominating their opponents by scoring 349 points and allowing only 26 over the season. They had five consecutive shutouts to finish the season, with no opponent scoring more than seven points all year.

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Pepperdine was ranked at No. 63 (out of 500 college football teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1947. [2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27at Arizona State–Flagstaff
W 60–7 [3]
October 4 Redlands W 21–6 [4]
October 11 Arizona State
  • Sentinel Field
  • Inglewood, CA
W 27–610,249 [5]
October 18Moiliili Bears (HI)
  • Sentinel Field
  • Inglewood, CA
W 34–7 [6]
October 25 Whittier
  • Sentinel Field
  • Inglewood, CA
W 45–07,851
November 8at Cal Poly W 47–0
November 15 Humboldt State
  • Sentinel Field
  • Inglewood, CA
W 56–09,000 [7]
November 22 Caltech
  • Sentinel Field
  • Inglewood, CA
W 46–0 [8]
December 5at Loyola (CA)
W 13–08,000 [9]

[10] [11]

Notes

  1. Pepperdine University was known as George Pepperdine College from 1937 to 1970.

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