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1956 Pepperdine Waves football team

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1956 Pepperdine Waves football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
Home stadiumEl Camino Stadium
Seasons
← 1955
1957 →
1956 NCAA College Division independents football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Alfred     8 0 0
Northern Michigan     7 0 1
St. Norbert     8 1 0
Carthage     8 2 0
Tampa     7 2 0
Cal Poly San Dimas     6 2 0
Mississippi Southern     7 2 1
Wabash     6 2 1
Hawaii     7 3 0
Hofstra     7 3 0
Xavier     7 3 0
Franklin & Marshall     5 2 1
Louisville     6 3 0
Pepperdine     6 3 0
Washington University     6 3 0
La Verne     6 4 0
Buffalo     5 3 0
Drexel     5 3 0
Long Beach State     5 3 0
Delaware     5 3 1
Memphis State     5 4 1
Arkansas State     5 4 0
Chattanooga     5 4 0
Baldwin–Wallace     4 5 0
Washington & Jefferson     3 4 1
Rose Poly     3 4 0
Bucknell     3 5 0
Carnegie Tech     3 5 0
Temple     3 5 0
Howard (AL)     2 5 2
Sewanee     1 6 1
UC Riverside     1 6 0

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.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22at Arizona State–Flagstaff
W 14–12
September 29at San Diego StateL 7–2711,000[1]
October 6Cal Poly
L 0–43
October 13at Long Beach StateL 12–266,000
October 27at Nevada
W 40–19
November 3Santa Barbara
  • El Camino Stadium
  • Torrance, CA
W 21–9
November 9San Diego NTS[note 3]
  • El Camino Stadium
  • Torrance, CA
W 33–18
November 16Los Angeles State
  • El Camino Stadium
  • Torrance, CA ("Old Shoe" rivalry)
W 15–14
November 24Whittier
  • El Camino Stadium
  • Torrance, CA
W 23–131,800

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Notes

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  1. ^ Pepperdine University was known as George Pepperdine College from 1937 to 1970.
  2. ^ This stadium is the predecessor to the current Mackay Stadium, which was opened for the 1966 season.[2]
  3. ^ Naval Training Center San Diego (Naval Training Station) was a U.S. Navy facility from 1923 to 1997.

References

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  1. ^ Howard Hagen (September 30, 1956). "Aztecs Shine In Home Debut; Lash Peps, 27-7". The San Diego Union. San Diego, California. p. G-1.
  2. ^ "Mackay Stadium". University of Nevada, Reno. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
  3. ^ "1956 - Pepperdine". Archived from the original on September 11, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  4. ^ Grenley, Dave (June 3, 2010). "The History of Pepperdine Football". Pepperdine Waves. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2017.