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USC Sunday Buzz: A Night To Remember

I feel like any time I research USC in the 1950’s or 60’s, there was an incredible amount of formal dinners.

This one caught my attention: On Nov. 28, 1958, USC held a “men’s football dinner” at Town and Gown.

This was the night before the USC-Notre Dame game at the Coliseum. That fact did not stop USC coach Don Clark from attending. Notre Dame sent athletic director Moose Krause and Father John Wilson, who was assistant to school president Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh.

It gets better. UCLA athletic director Wilbur Johns and football coach Bill Barnes were in attendance. Can you imagine Dan Guerrero and Chip Kelly coming to a USC dinner the night before the Notre Dame game?

Do you recognize the emcee on the far right in the picture above? More on him later.

There was also entertainment as ventriloquist Edgar Bergen came with his sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. Singer Sue Raney was also part of the program. Twenty years later, Raney sang the national anthem at Dodger Stadium before Game 6 of the 1978 World Series.

USC also had athetic director Jess Hill, president Norman Topping and chancellor Rufus von KleinSmid at the dinner and the fathers of the USC players were introduced.

The emcee? It was Chick Hearn, who did USC football and basketball games from 1956-61 before becoming a Lakers legend.

A few weeks later, some of the same people had to do it all again for the USC football banquet.

From left, athletic directorJess Hill, Chancellor Rufus von KleinSmid, Notre Dame’s Fr. John Wilson, USC president Norman Topping, and General Alumni Assn. president Eber Jaques listen to Chick Hearn.
Singer Sue Raney performs at USC football dinner.

72 thoughts on “USC Sunday Buzz: A Night To Remember”

    1. You hero the anti-American Peaceful Moderate Democrat AOC is bragging about interfering in the democratic process enshrined in our Constitution of the right of the people to peaceably assemble.

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      1. gt — At least we now know how the crazies in the dem party want to play this thing: run as much interference as possible on participatory democracy.
        #ThereAreSOManyBetterWaysOfShowingYouCareAboutCountry

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      2. I wondered how TulsaTrojan aka senileobama and Owns already seemed to know last night what was happening at the rally before it started. Haldeman and Erlichman would be envious of the Peaceful Moderate Democrat/Never Trumper Steve Schmidt anti-constitutional antics.

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      4. According to Tulsa officials approximately 6200 deplorables attended Trump’s Tulsa campaign FLOP.

        Put another way 22, just 0.0062 of the 1 million ticket holders, that Trump claimed, attended his BEEG FLOP.

        #Can’t wait for Nov.
        #TrumpoutoftheWHandintocourt/jail

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      1. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      1. Remember 3 years ago when the very idea of Peaceful Moderate Democrats vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial and statues of the Founding Fathers was considered unthinkable even on the preachy unfunny lib “Comedy” Channel?

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      1. Maybe when you have a minute, you can explain about Birmingham bombings, Montgomery and Selma….

        Yup, Alabammy is the center of social justice…hahahahaha.

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    2. Thanks for posting this, Pudly. Hope everybody here takes the time to listen to Sam …and learn from him. Good man.
      Pudly– what “hillbilly” remark are you referring to? Has it been removed?

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      1. Tbone be my hillbilly huckleberry moonshinin fool. He made reference several days ago to alabammy’s racial tolerance being so far ahead of that at SC.

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    3. Pudly, great post. Wish the interviewer was Keith Jackson, but we can’t have everything. Ladies (for Tebow) and Gentlemen, now there is a Trojan. The guy you want on your team no matter what, no matter what playing field or foxhole you might be in. Sam is the man.

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      1. There were many men on that field that day, that Sam was held up as an example doesn’t nor should it diminish what they all felt and what the team accomplished.
        F’ U tbone

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      2. Check out Sam warning everybody [before the 2016 Alabama game] that “leadership” would be required if things went south early. Helton wasn’t listening, I guess. btw, it wasn’t Helton [or Sam Darnold] who offered off the field leadership when Penn State went up 2 TD’s in the 4th quarter in the Rose Bowl. It was JuJu —he was moving up and down the sidelines telling the players to calm down and focus and they’d still win. I loved watching that — we need some of it this year —cuz Helton is the same lost old man today ….only worse…..
        #…..AmonRaSt.BrownAreYouListening?

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  3. Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w/ fake ticket reservations & tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID

    Shout out to Zoomers. Y’all make me so proud.

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    1. Yup proud as hell….f’ da police! You moonshining fool.

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      2. The Mayor of Seattle is going to be the target of plenty of lawsuits —-starting with an unlawful death suit. [She should have played fair with the voters by saying pre-vote that, if elected, she wouldn’t take the oath of office cuz she didn’t believe in protecting lives or property].

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      3. No one talks about how the socialists all impose their “free will” upon all those landowners, business people, and residents without the right to speak out. Perhaps I’ll post videos of the “people’s” response when there’s an opinion that isn’t homogeneous with their doctrine.
        Always funny how things work with these socialist wonders.

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    1. You are so proud that your fellow Democrats coordinated a phony registration scam to suppress the turnout at POTUS’ Tulsa rally. Donald Segretti, an aide to Richard Nixon, went to prison for pulling stunts like that.

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      1. Yes –but even Segretti wasn’t dumb enough to admit to [and gloat about] it in writing.
        #ElectionLawsWereViolated….

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      2. 22 baby whines loudly ’cause Trump’s Tulsa rally FLOPPED like a dying mackerel. What f**k’ing Trump joke.

        Oh BTW 22, the Tom Petty family had to send the Trump Campaign a cease and desist order to stop using TP’s “I won’t back down” music for Trump’s campaign.

        Trump is so cool he has to steal good music for his campaign.

        #Can’twaitforNov.

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  5. Happy Father’s Day Trojans. Go tell your father you love him more than football. Oh the same for you Bruin trolls except you tell your daddy you love him more than bassetball.
    If you are a father congratulations, now be an example to your children and try to be civil for an hour.

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    1. “Happy Father’s Day” back at ya, Truman! And the same goes for ALL the Dad’s here (yes, even Owns — bet he’s a great pop even if he IS politically naive)……
      #Well,IWasALMOSTCivil…….

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      2. MG do you think the Trump campaign has a cognizable cause of action — and maybe even grounds for a TRO — based on the tort of “intentional interference with prospective economic advantage?” From what I’ve read, the elements vary from state to state, but courts generally hold that the elements of the civil wrong are:

        “(1) an economic relationship between the plaintiff and some third party, with the probability of future economic benefit to the plaintiff; (2) the defendant’s knowledge of the relationship; (3) intentional acts on the part of the defendant designed to disrupt the relationship; (4) actual disruption of the relationship; and (5) economic harm to the plaintiff proximately caused by the acts of the defendant.”

        Sounds to me like the campaign has a case. But you are the expert. What do you think? I find it ironic that the bunch who complain about “suppression” are bragging about doing just that.

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      3. I hope Trump’s legal team [which isn’t that great, by the way] and the Justice Department [which is so overloaded they can’t see straight] get to work identifying the federal election laws that were violated. AOC’s statement —of and by itself — is more than enough to launch an investigation.
        The only problem…..?
        #BasedOnDurham’sPace,ItWouldTake14YearsToComplete……

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      4. LMFAO!

        MG, gotroll22 and pudwacker think there should be an investigation into a bunch of snowflakes who sabotaged Trump’s failed rally in Tulsa.

        A bunch of kids on the internet making fake reservations to the Trump rally and those three aforementioned clowns believe they tried to subvert the government. You can’t make this shit up.

        And MG claims to be a competent attorney.

        OH MY SIDE HURTS FROM LAUGHING SO MUCH!

        WHAT A BUNCH OF DIPSHITS…A REAL ALGONQUIN ROUNDTABLE.

        CLASSIC!

        AHA HA HA HA HA!

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      6. tebow — I can assure you “a bunch of kids on the internet” didn’t hatch this idea…..
        #That’sWhyThereSHOULDBeAnIvestigation…
        #…ButDon’tWorry…TheRepubsAreTooDumbAndWeakToDoIt…

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      7. Whose vote did the snowflakes suppress by wrecking Trump’s Tulsa rally?

        This idiot gotroll22 is too much! He doesn’t know when to quit making a fool of himself.

        LMFAO!

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      9. “Too dumb to know when to stop making a fool of himself…”
        #…ILeaveTheIronyOfThatOneToMyBlogBrothers&Sisters…

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  6. There will be no football, baseball or basketball played, professional or otherwise, played this year.

    The focus will remain on Trump’s failure as a president for the remainder of the year.

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    1. That’s right, tebow —- all we have to look forward to is lots and lots of “failure”….
      Don’t take this the wrong way….. but…were you a good student in school?
      #JustWondering

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    3. Trouble in paradise? Say it ain’t so! How can such a woke lib get it so wrong …..

      “Democrats acknowledge Hickenlooper has made serious mistakes on what was supposed to be a glide path to the Democratic nomination. After being cited for contempt this month for initially failing to appear before Colorado’s Independent Ethics Commission, Hickenlooper was fined $2,750 for two violations dating back to his second term as governor.
      He’s also apologized for comments about race, including responding to a question about the Black Lives Matter protests in a recent forum by saying the phrase means “every life matters,” echoing a common refrain among conservatives.”

      https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/06/21/john-hickenlooper-colorado-senate-stumble-330755

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  9. “You Dumbocrats conspired to interfere in the presidential campaign and attacked and harassed potential voters into fleeing for their lives you lying libtard TulsaTrojan”

    – gotroll22

    But why didn’t those trumpster’s exercise their 2nd Amendment right?

    Trumpster’s were “fleeing for their lives” in a conceal and carry red state…Oh My!

    LOL!

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    1. That was foolish of Republicans to expect Democrats to behave as if they were their fellow countrymen. We now know you are violent traitors.

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  11. Hey troll22… saw you took a shot at me earlier. I was too busy enjoying fathers day with people who love and respect me. I know you do not have that problem because you are a piece of shit.

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    1. Poor IQ82 sharted in his Depends when he saw that he was shamed for supporting his fellow racist Libtard TulsaTrojan’s racist slurs against the greatest USC head coach in school history.

      Poor Racist Snowflake, better find a safe space and hug your comfort horsey tonight.

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  12. You are the only one wearing Depends on this blog old man. tebow does not need me to handle your dumb ass. Unlike you white nationalist assholes we do not need to gang up on any of you retards.

    “We’re going to be in Oklahoma. And it’s a crowd like, I guess, nobody’s seen before. We have tremendous, tremendous requests for tickets like, I think, probably has never happened politically before.” The unusual use of I guess and I think is a signifier of the president’s false modesty: he knew, with Trumpian certitude, that he was going to break some attendance records in Tulsa.
    Poor Racist Snowflake, better find a safe space and hug your comfort horsey tonight.

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    1. Your inability to understand simple concepts proves you are as senile as yoru fellow bigot Democrat Joe Biden. No wonder you obsess about age- you are the oldest one here. You’ve been a bigot since tthe Democrats were led by Progressive Segregationists like Al Gore Sr and BJ Clinton’s mentor J. William Fulbright.

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  13. Wow! you just dated yourself you dinosaur! wtf are you even talking about? nothing! just die already you whiny little piece of crusty white dog shit!

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    1. You love black bigots like this fellow Peaceful Moderate Democratcbigot who remind you of yourself back in the 1950s before you became a mean old coot…

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  14. Black lives matter is controlled by Fear Anger Hatred and Racism… when you have Crime Murder Gangs Rapist Drug dealers shootings and killings in your Neighborhood U Become EVIL. … the proof is right on TV the News Media.. the media loves being controlled by Evil this is how the Media makes more Money keeping there Job while you have NO JOB

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  15. I have a great job. Do you? i have no problem providing for my family do you? You know what happens when you assume things right? Then again i assumed the President knew Finland was not in Russia so there’s that. Next time identify yourself you coward.

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    1. Sure you do, you are also the Queen of England. Your loser bigot victicrat personality comes though here loud and clear. No wonder you relate to the other racist Moderate Democrats. You couldn’t care less that more blacks are killed by each other in one year than the KKK killed in all of it’s history. 14 more killed in Chicago this weekend and you say nothing!

      You are just another blowhard phony like Clay Russell.

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  17. Two are picking their noses, two are picking their teeth, one is crying and the other is laughing and the father has hemmoroids.

    #GoodJob
    #WhatHappenedToIQ81?

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