1947 Pepperdine Waves football team

1947 Pepperdine Waves football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
Home stadiumSentinel Field
Seasons
← 1946
1948 →
1947 Western college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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.

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


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  1. ^ "Pepperdine Football All-Time Results" (PDF). Archived from the original on January 3, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 18, 1947). "Michigan National Champion in Final Litkenhous Ratings". Times. p. 47 – via Newspapers.com.