1953 Pepperdine Waves football team

1953 Pepperdine Waves football
Conference	California Collegiate Athletic Association
Record	3–6 (2–3 CCAA)
Head coach	Gordon McEachron (1st season)
Home stadium	El Camino Stadium
Seasons ←  1952 1954  →

1953 California Collegiate Athletic Association football standings
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Cal Poly $	5	–	0	–	0			9	–	0	–	0
San Diego State	3	–	1	–	1			5	–	3	–	1
Fresno State	2	–	2	–	1			4	–	4	–	2
Pepperdine	2	–	3	–	0			3	–	6	–	0
Santa Barbara	1	–	4	–	0			2	–	6	–	1
Los Angeles State	1	–	4	–	0			2	–	7	–	0
$ – Conference champion

The 1953 Pepperdine Waves football team represented George Pepperdine College ^{[note 1]} as a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) during the 1953 college football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Gordon McEachron and played home games at El Camino Stadium on the campus of El Camino College in Torrance, California. They finished the season with an overall record of 3–6 and a mark of 2–3 in conference play, placing fourth in the CCAA.

On December 7, 1953, Pepperdine announced that they were withdrawing from the CCAA in order to "seek its own level" in the field of athletics. ^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	La Verne *	El Camino Stadium Torrance, CA	W 12–0
October 10	San Diego State	El Camino Stadium Torrance, CA	L 0–6	4,000	[2]
October 16	at Occidental *	D.W. Patterson Field Los Angeles, CA (Black and Blue Game)	L 12–20
October 24	Cal Poly	El Camino Stadium Torrance, CA	L 0–45
October 31	San Francisco State *	El Camino Stadium Torrance, CA	L 6–13
November 6	at Santa Barbara	La Playa Stadium Santa Barbara, CA	W 13–12
November 14	Fresno State	Ratcliffe Stadium Fresno, CA	L 2–54	5,224	[3]
November 20	at Los Angeles State	Snyder Field Los Angeles, CA ("Old Shoe" rivalry)	W 13–7
November 28	at Whittier *	Hadley Field Whittier, CA	L 13–40
*Non-conference game Homecoming

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Notes

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

References

1. "Pepperdine Drops Out of CCAA, May Join SCIC". Redlands Daily Facts. Redlands, California. December 8, 1953. p. 8. Retrieved February 16, 2017– via Newspapers.com.
2. Howard Hagen (October 11, 1953). "San Diego State Slips Past Pepperdine, 6-0". The San Diego Union. San Diego, California. p. B-2.
3. "Fresno State 2016 Media Guide" (PDF). Retrieved December 8, 2016.
4. "1953 - Pepperdine". Archived from the original on September 11, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
5. Grenley, Dave (June 3, 2010). "The History of Pepperdine Football". Pepperdine Waves. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2017.