1959 Pepperdine Waves football team
American college football season
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The 1959 Pepperdine Waves football team represented George Pepperdine College[note 1] as an independent during the 1959 college football season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach John Scolinos. For the 1959 season, the Waves moved home games back to Sentinel Field on the campus of Inglewood High School in Inglewood, California. They had previously played at Sentinel Field in 1946, 1947, and 1949. Pepperdine finished the season with a record of 2–5–1.
| 1959 Pepperdine Waves football | |
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| Conference | Independent |
| Record | 2–5–1 |
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| Home stadium | Sentinel Field |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cal Poly Pomona | – | 7 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Santa Clara | – | 4 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Riverside | – | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Montana State | – | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hawaii | – | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pepperdine | – | 2 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 26 | at Nevada | L 12–27 | ||||
| October 3 | at Los Angeles State |
| L 14–48 | |||
| October 10 | Whittier | L 6–23 | ||||
| October 17 | at San Diego | W 19–6 | ||||
| October 23 | 8:00 p.m. | Cal Poly Pomona | L 14–30 | [2][3] | ||
| October 31 | at Cal Western[note 3] |
| W 31–7 | |||
| November 7 | Long Beach State |
| L 7–26 | 2,800 | ||
| November 14 | San Diego State |
| T 14–14 | 1,500 | [4] | |
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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.[1]
- 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.
