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PEPPERDINE FOOTBALL: STILL UNDEFEATED BY ALYSHA TSUJI PHOTOS COURTESY OF PEPPERDINE LIBRARIES 37 · CURRENTS
No One Believed in Them Among the already established powerhouse football schools (USC, Loyola University, UCLA, Whittier), Pepperdine was nothing but a blip on the radar. The team started in March of 1946 with about 15 guys, according to George Pepperdine College (GPC) alumnus Harry Nelson (’50). By August, the roster nearly tripled in size. Nelson said the increase in numbers was mostly because guys began walking over from nearby Washington High School — not because of any newfound popularity. When a friend first told him about Pepperdine, Nelson said, “Is that a disease or a sandwich?” As a 34-acre campus nestled a few miles south of Downtown, right around the heart of Los Angeles, George Pepperdine College didn’t have a stadium. With an enrollment of just over 1,000 students, it didn’t have a huge fan base, either. Within that inaugural season, no one expected much. However, the team expected much out of themselves. The 1947 squad steamrolled the competition — even knocking out coveted Loyola University’s football team in the third game — and ran all the way to the Will Roger’s Bowl in Oklahoma City on Jan. 1, 1947. Following the shocking Loyola upset, one sportswriter wrote in his column, “Why We Downed Loyola’s Lions,” which was in “Pepperdine: The Football Years,” by Jay Roelen and Jerry Roelen: “Even the GPC coaching staff didn’t expect such CURRENTS · 38
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