High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pacific Coast Professional Football League (PCPFL), also known as the Pacific Coast Football League (PCFL) and Pacific Coast League (PCL) was a professional American football league based in California, USA, and competed from 1940 through 1948 in sports. One of the few American professional sports leagues that competed in the years of World War II, the PCPFL was regarded as a minor league of the highest level, particularly in 1940-1945, at a time in which the major National Football League did not extend further west than Chicago and Green Bay. It was also the first professional football league to have a team based in Hawaii (the Hawaiian Warriors).