In their first season the team went 8-1-0, including a 38-13 victory over the Nebraska Wesleyan Plainsmen in the Will Rogers Bowl.
The Pepperdine Board of Trustees ended the football program after the 1961 season, judging the cost of fielding a competitive team too high.
[2] Although Pepperdine played basketball in the West Coast Athletic Conference, the football program competed as an independent.
[4] Pepperdine called multiple stadiums home during the short tenure of its program.
[6] In 1950 Pepperdine moved to Gilmore Stadium for a season, but that facility's imminent demolition required yet another change.