The game featured Pepperdine, a first-year football program, and Nebraska Wesleyan.
Pepperdine, a school based in Los Angeles, California, was then known as George Pepperdine College (GPC), and the football team finished its first-ever season of play with an 8–1 record.
The mascot names for Nebraska-Wesleyan have changed from Coyotes to Sun Flowers to Plainsmen to Prairie Wolves and the program has won 22 conference titles.
It was named in honor of Will Rogers, a famous Oklahoma native and self-proclaimed "Cowboy Philosopher," who had died in a plane crash the previous decade.
Nebraska-Wesleyan led 7-0 at halftime but Pepperdine came back to win the game 38-13.