location: Stockton, California
conference: Big West
last football season: 1995
bowl games: 1948 Raisin Bowl
1952 Sun Bowl
1953 Sun Bowl
hall of fame: Amos Alonzo Stagg (coach 1933-46)
UOP dropped its Division I-A program following the 1995 season.
When former Drake athletic director Lynn King arrived in Stockton, there was speculation Pacific would bring football back, competing without scholarships in the same league with Drake and the University of San Diego. Pacific's president, however, reportedly dismissed the idea, saying nonscholarship football would be "below our tradition."
During the 1980s and 1990s Pacific had a grand total of one winning football season.
According to the Stockton Record, King explained that any new sport should compete at the same level as Pacific's other sports.
Maybe Pacific students and alumni should be allowed to decide the future of football. These days, it's a Pacific tradition to stay home to watch other schools play on television
Here's a link to scores, 1950-1995.
The NFL at Pacific
The San Francisco 49ers used 30,000-seat Stagg Stadium for training camp until a 2003 move to Santa Clara University. Women's soccer now uses the stadium.