1961 Pepperdine Waves football team

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1961 Pepperdine Waves football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–9
Head coach
Home stadium Sentinel Field
Seasons
  1960
1961 Western college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 17 Arizona   8 1 1
Westminster (UT)   7 1 1
La Verne   7 2 0
Idaho State   5 2 1
San Francisco   4 2 0
Cal Poly Pomona   6 3 0
San Jose State   6 4 0
Eastern New Mexico   6 4 0
Los Angeles Pacific   5 3 0
Montana State   4 3 1
Pacific (CA)   5 4 0
Azusa   4 3 0
Oregon State   5 5 0
Santa Clara   3 3 0
Oregon   4 6 0
Claremont   3 6 0
Air Force   3 7 0
Washington State   3 7 0
Cal Western   3 7 0
Idaho   2 7 0
San Diego   2 8 0
Southern California College   1 5 0
UC Riverside   1 7 0
Pepperdine   1 9 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1961 Pepperdine Waves football team represented George Pepperdine College [note 1] as an independent during the 1961 college football season. The team was led by second-year head coach Pence Dacus. The Waves played home games at Sentinel Field on the campus of Inglewood High School in Inglewood, California. Pepperdine finished the season with a record of 1–9 for the second year in a row.

Contents

On December 20, 1961, Pepperdine announced that it was dropping its football team due to financial considerations. In its 16 years of existence, the Waves football team compiled an overall 64–79–2 record, for a .448 winning percentage. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 16at Sacramento State L 0–21
September 23at Chico State
L 16–27
September 30 New Mexico Highlands L 16–18
October 7 Whittier L 11–28 [2]
October 14at San Diego L 0–13
October 21at Cal Poly Pomona
L 14–262,500 [3]
October 28 Cal Western [note 2]
  • Balboa Stadium ?
  • San Diego, CA
W 16–9
November 4 San Diego State
  • Sentinel Field
  • Inglewood, CA
L 6–219,000 [4]
November 10at UC Santa Barbara
L 14–19
November 18 Long Beach State
  • Sentinel Field
  • Inglewood, CA
L 15–221,500 [5]

[6] [7]

Notes

  1. Pepperdine University was known as George Pepperdine College from 1937 to 1970.
  2. Alliant International University was formed in 2001 via the merger of United States International University (USIU) and California School of Professional Psychology. USIU had been known as California Western University (Cal Western) from 1952 to 1967.

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