1948 Pepperdine Waves football team

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1948 Pepperdine Waves football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
Home stadium Wrigley Field
Seasons
  1947
1949  
1948 Western college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Nevada   9 2 0
Santa Clara   7 2 1
Hawaii   7 4 1
Idaho State   6 1 1
Cal Poly San Dimas   6 4 0
Pepperdine   4 5 0
Saint Mary's   4 6 0
Loyola (CA)   3 5 1
La Verne   3 5 0
Portland   2 5 1
San Francisco   2 7 0

The 1948 Pepperdine Waves football team represented George Pepperdine College [note 1] as an independent during the 1948 college football season. The team was led by third-year head coach Warren Gaer. For the 1948 season only, the Waves played home games at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. Pepperdine finished the season with a record of 4–5.

Contents

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24at BYU
L 0–13 [1]
October 2at Arizona State L 7–33 [2]
October 9 San Jose State L 6–615,100 [3]
October 16at San Diego State L 6–718,000 [4] [5]
October 23 Fresno State
  • Wrigley Field
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 14–135,000 [6]
October 30at Portland L 0–21 [7]
November 13 Arizona State–Flagstaff
  • Wrigley Field
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 34–203,700 [8]
November 20 Caltech
  • Wrigley Field
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 14–12
November 27at Loyola (CA)
  • Gilmore Stadium
  • Los Angeles, CA
W 14–137,500 [9] [10]

[11] [12]

Team players in the NFL

No Pepperdine players were selected in the 1949 NFL draft. [13] [14]

The following player finished his collegiate playing career in 1948 at Pepperdine. He had played in the NFL during World War II, at age 19, and prior to playing football at Pepperdine.

PlayerPositionNFL team
Tom Bedore Guard – Linebacker 1944 Washington Redskins

Notes

  1. Pepperdine University was known as George Pepperdine College from 1937 to 1970.
  2. This stadium is the predecessor to the current Cougar Stadium on the BYU campus, which was opened for the 1964 season

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