1956 Pepperdine Waves football team
American college football season
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The 1956 Pepperdine Waves football team represented George Pepperdine College[note 1] as an independent during the 1956 college football season. The team was led by second-year head coach John Scolinos and played home games at El Camino Stadium on the campus of El Camino College in Torrance, California. They finished the season with a record of 6–3.
| 1956 Pepperdine Waves football | |
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| Conference | Independent |
| Record | 6–3 |
| Head coach |
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| Home stadium | El Camino Stadium |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal Poly San Dimas | – | 6 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hawaii | – | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pepperdine | – | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| La Verne | – | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Riverside | – | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 22 | at Arizona State–Flagstaff |
| W 14–12 | [1][2] | |
| September 29 | at San Diego State | L 7–27 | 11,000 | [3] | |
| October 6 | Cal Poly |
| L 0–43 | ||
| October 13 | at Long Beach State | L 12–26 | 6,000 | [4] | |
| October 27 | at Nevada | W 40–19 | |||
| November 3 | Santa Barbara |
| W 21–9 | ||
| November 9 | San Diego NTS[note 3] |
| W 33–18 | ||
| November 16 | Los Angeles State |
| W 15–14 | ||
| November 24 | Whittier |
| W 23–13 | 1,800 |
Notes
- Pepperdine University was known as George Pepperdine College from 1937 to 1970.
- This stadium is the predecessor to the current Mackay Stadium, which was opened for the 1966 season.[5]
- Naval Training Center San Diego (Naval Training Station) was a U.S. Navy facility from 1923 to 1997.