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If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column

Let’s start off with a little bit of spring football.

Here’s what USC linebacker Mason Cobb, a transfer from Oklahoma State, had to say Thursday about freshman linebacker Tackett Curtis.

“He’s got a motor and it never runs out of gas,” Cobb said.

  • Jalen Hurts attended USC football practice Thursday. It’s not the first time he met freshman QB Malachi Nelson. The pair previously met with Nelson visited Oklahoma, where he originally committed.
  • USC had the money for this video board a decade ago but then-president Max Nikias said no because he thought it blocked the view of the then under-construction Wallis Annenberg Hall journalism building. So it got delayed. I’m still trying to figure out where you would have to stand to have your view blocked. The track bleachers? USC hosts one meet a year that doesn’t sell out.
  • Who says USC doesn’t have famous professors? This semester, actress Finola Hughes is teaching the drama class, “Performance for Camera.” Hughes has been on the soap opera “General Hospital” since 1985.
  • And now for some history:

USC has been a Nike school for so long that it’s fun to see players in a different brand. Ronnie Lott is sporting Converse cleats in this photo.

  • Lane Kiffin gave USC its worst all-time cleats, sported here by Marqise Lee.
  • Bob Chandler models the USC helmet in honor of the 100th anniversary of college football in the 1970 Rose Bowl.
  • UCLA QB Mark Harmon vs. USC.
  • Today’s column has a strong homecoming flavor.
  • Vampira, who hosted a TV show in Los Angeles at the time on KABC-TV (Channel 7), is driven in the Alpha Tau Omega car at the USC homecoming parade in 1954. Vampira also appeared in the low-budget classic “Plan 9 from Outer Space.” The dialogue was so bad she refused to speak in the movie. But what a coup to get her at the parade!
  • Here’s the same parade featuring some huskies pulling a float of Tommy Trojan.
  • Here’s the grand marshals of 1951, Leo Durocher and Laraine Day. Durocher had just led the New York Giants to the World Series and Day was an established movie star. The parade drew 100,000 on the Miracle Mile.
  • In 1959, Judy Primrose was crowned homecoming queen (Helen of Troy) by the previous year’s queen, Ella Lou Sharp.

Primrose married USC All-American Mike McKeever in 1960 and had three children, including Barry, who was a linebacker at Stanford and Teri, a swimmer at USC. Mike died in 1967 and Judy remarried and had seven more children. Two of them,  Kristi and Kelli, were members of the U.S. national field hockey team.

  • Here’s a scene from homecoming in 1984.
  • Here’s USC president Steven Sample on the drums with the band at homecoming in 1991.
  • Did you know George Tirebiter once went to USC game in an armored car? He really was a VIP. He definitely preferred this ride because he could stick his head out the window.
Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram with the Coliseum in the background for the first Super Bowl.
  • The Trojan Column was unveiled in 1952 and is still on campus today. The plaque claims the column is from the Temple of Apollo in the ancient city of Troy and was a gift from the Republic of Turkey.

Alas, this is not true as the stone is apparently from a time period at least 800 years after Troy existed. Of course, USC doesn’t say this anywhere.

The Acacia Fraternity (which is no longer at USC) requested the relic (for the university) from the ruins of ancient Troy. They dealt with the Turkish Information Office in New York and the American Embassy in Istanbul. The result was a mystery column sent to USC that is more likely Roman in origin. I won’t tell if you won’t tell.

Turkish professor Dr. Bedri Gursoy; USC president Fred D. Fagg; Carol Troy; Chancellor Rufus von KleinSmid and Janet Anderson (Helen of Troy) at the unveiling of the Trojan Column in 1952.
  • Let’s look at some pictures of bustling downtown Los Angeles. Here’s 6th and Hill in 1947.
  • And look at the crowd outside Robinson’s Dept. Store on 7th and Grand in 1933.

CONCERT OF THE WEEK

Jefferson Airplane and Iron Butterfly performed at USC on March 30, 1968.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

It’s Irene Cara with an orchestra directed by Mitch Miller. A win-win-win.

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89 thoughts on “If It’s Friday, It’s Time For A USC Notes Column”

    1. Top of the morning to you, Eddie, how’s that wonderful peenus of yours that you’re constantly bragging about? And yes, I’m not sure what weirdos like yourself are talking about half the time 😂 Did you Jack off to my photos like you normally do this morning?

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      1. Just fur identifycashun purpuses, this post here is frum the moron fayk laywyur john. Mahybe fayk lawyur john is the way he is becuz he spent to much tyme with vampyra. smdh

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      2. No MissusEd.G, I’m the real Lawyer John, and you know this, you fuccing weirdo 😂. You portray yourself as two dumb asses, which makes your posts even funnier 😂

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  2. That first Super Bowl for Vince Lombardi was a real challenge. He knew they’d beat KC but he was afraid there was nothing to get the Packers motivated to do so and then he got a gift.

    KC Chief DLB Fred Williamson who proclaimed to one and all “I am the Hammer the invincible Hammer!” and flexed his bicep as he said that over and over. Lombardi yelled at to his linemen “Hey this guy claims he’s ‘the invincible Hammer!”

    Game starts and by the 4th qtr it’s a foregone conclusion. Suddenly after Willamson’s helmet met Packer RB Anderson ‘boom’ Williamson is lying on his back side looking at the clouds. CBS had that ‘big ear’ sound amplifier on the sideline with no ‘delay’ or ‘mute’.

    Viewers then heard from the Packers hovering around Williamson “Hey somebody got the Hammer!” And then the coup de grace – Jerry Kramer, as he begins ‘tapping’ Willamson’s helmet bellows “You ain’t knocked out! Come on ‘bad ass’ get up!”

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  3. Can’t USC find a uniform sponsor other than Nike. Phil Knight’s payola has cost USC some top recruits the last few years. And he has that freak Dylan Mulvaney modeling a women sports bra. Let’s dump any association with Nike. It will just feel good, like taking a shower after fertilizing your lawn.

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    1. Dumping Nike because Papa Phil has more t00ls in the box is comical. Speaking of fertilizing, what inspired you to use “Plow Horse” as a username?….asking for a friend

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      1. Speaking of the old adage “better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt,” what inspired you to use “Gabby” as a username? Did you have trouble spelling “the village idiot” ? Asking for about half the blog who wish you would just STFU.

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      2. plow horse: Let’s dump any association with Nike. It will just feel good, like taking a shower after fertilizing your lawn.

        Speaking of the old adage “better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt,”

        FYI…Gabby is short for Gabriella…..why I use it is none of your fucking business.

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  4. Plowhorse
    Buttwiper association with that trans boy/girl has cost Anbev $6billion in lost stock value. With more to go. C suite is blaming it on low level employees changing the marketing plan. Lol.

    BTW, Teri McKeever, women’s swim coach, was just terminated at Cal with cause. And hopefully she’ll take down the Cal AD, Jim Knownothing. He needs to go back to a gubbermint cheese job.

    End of sermon.

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    1. Cal75: Nice to see that you are in good spirits. In a youtube video, the 39 year old female marketing executive for Bud Light said that the beer was an iconic brand but it’s image was that of a beer for “bratty, fratty, boys” and that had to change and get more inclusive to grow the brand. So she apparently thought that featuring a skinny guy dressed up as Audrey Hepburn on beer cans would have no negative consequences. I wonder if she still has a job. We may see her again as a policy analyst in the Biden Administration.

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      1. Bud is the beer of choice for Latin immigrants, 40 million and blue collar workers, another 100 million.
        No way in hell C suite didn’t approve. Heads will roll. Hopefully. Already major boycott of all Anbev brands. Short the stock.

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  5. I am not interested in what a player says,
    “Yeah, that guy has “got a motor,”
    Rather, show me his thoughts,
    ‘Yeah, but that motor ain’t no Ferrari like I own’

    Ronnie Lott looking fine all the way down to his cleats
    And wasn’t the Trojan cardinal coloring darker back then?-
    Today it is almost crimson

    Marquis Lee showing some “hops,” and the sucla actually played it well

    Tom Harmon quarterbacking sucla; I wonder what ever happened to him

    Great picture of the huskies’ dogs pulling for ol’ SC; Thanks Scott,
    I am saving that picture and framing it for my huskies-loving wife,
    although she’ll probably have to take down the picture of me to make room for it

    The First Super Bowl, I was there with my Dad and a couple of other guys,
    I bought the tickets for something like $100- for the 4 of them.
    The Super Bowl was not big and only about 65,000 showed up at the coliseum
    KC lost that day but they soon were to win a Super Bowl with rambling Mike Garrett

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      4. Yeah, sure it is. A simple mistake, I noticed the moment it posted.

        Not the real cognitive lapses you and Joe experience. That’s why you cry so much any time I post anything. But go ahead and lie again about why you do it. You’re only kidding yourself; No one on here is buying it.

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      5. Gabby – SoCal made a simple mistake that anyone could make. You are being petty and look foolish with your remark. You are better than that.

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      6. Fight on……so cal calls me dumbass, dipshit, stupid, the village idiot, and mocks my 74-year-old mother on a daily basis…..I actually went easy on the guy……thanks for your concerns

        #fight-on!

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      8. Gabby, you really need to quit playing the victim. I have tried on more than one occasion to move on.

        You asked for all the shit I have given you in the past, but even so I’m willing to leave it there…in the past.

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      9. dude, now you’re whining and crying that I am picking on you. You were not worried about that when making all your derogatory remarks about my family and me. Grow a pair!…..you get what you get and don’t throw a fit…..

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      10. Fight On, he’s never worried about looking foolish and no, he is NOT better than that. So many people on here have given him more than one chance. Some have just given up.

        He’s bipolar and will play nice with them occasionally, complimenting something they post and pretending he’s this really nice guy. But his true colors always come out eventually.

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      11. KNOCK KNOCK!!!! focus, you’re the only one on this blog who I slap around like a pinata. I am not the victim at all, I am just giving you a taste of your own medicine. It’s comical how you’re the one who is concerned about how I am perceived through the eyes of others, and not me.

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      12. Gabby – Fair point. I doubt anyone likes reading that either. How about you both not respond to each other rather than continuously antagonize each other?

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      13. Not truly a fair point, Fight On, as he’s never caught on to the fact that you get what you give. He’s always been the one to start the personal attacks. NEVER take his posts at face value.

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      14. Wow!…..trying to convince Fight On you’re the victim…..I really really feel sorry for your family….Go find something productive to do…..I am your house needs work

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      16. So cal is like a video game, I push the button and then watch him react……The best part, he is so serious about it…..As I said, he’s no more than cheap entertainment….

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      17. LOL! Not whining or crying that you’re picking on me. Just telling you to quit playing the victim when you’re not.

        I love the way you lie about everything. It comes so easy to you.

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      20. Yes, Pasadena, I corrected that a minute later. But thx!

        Gonna be in your hood again at the end of the month. But we’ll likely hit La Grande Orange.

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    3. I was there for SB 1 and 2. We were able to walk out on the field, there was like zero security. 65000 would be pushing it in my view.

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    1. My dearest friend Owns— how does it feel to know all the time tebow thought he was peeing on a Trojan column —he was, in fact, peeing on a Roman column?

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  8. According to a source, our resident sociopath boycotted the Jefferson Airplane concert due to the $1.50 ticket prices. At least he’s consistent!

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    1. According to a source, I resided at Camarillo State Hospital for treatment of my manic depression until they converted it into a state college.

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  9. A new NIL collective created at USC. Hopefully will start to turn the tide on high school recruits. You can just feel the momentum at USC now.

    If the team delivers on the field this year, USC will start to dominate recruiting. I want to see Oregon get stuck in the Pac-12, with a crappy media deal. If they get stuck there, even paying high school athletes will not work anymore.

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    1. Yesterday, I posted the link to the LA Times article regarding the new collective situation at USC. Looks like the NIL deals will start to be competitive with the competition. USC was definitely late getting to the table.

      I agree with you regarding the recruiting comment. Next season can go a long way in strengthening the perception of USC football… Fingers crossed for future success.

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      2. Joe has reached the point where the dementia symptoms are doubling daily…which means doubling his medication daily….which means we’re going to see some pretty weird shit before the 25th amendment is “sadly” invoked….
        #..ThenWe’llSeeEvenWeirderShitFromKamala….
        #..Until25thAmendmentIs”Sadly”InvokedAllOverAgain…
        #[AtLeastNancy’sGoneSoWeWon’t”Sadly”NeedA”Threepeat”]..

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      3. You’ll need 10 Dems to remove him…. Joe is laughing at your comment. Keep electing people like Desantis and the GOP will struggle to win a General election.

        Desantis, day by day is sealing his fate!… I can only offer him words of encouragement

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      4. Amazing that anyone would be dumb enough to try and deny that Joe is suffering from dementia and has been since at least 2019.

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      5. Amazing that anyone would be dumb enough to try and deny that slo troll is suffering from dementia and has been long before 2019.

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      6. USC simply could not get out of their own way to get anything done. They think they need oversight so not to get in trouble with the nazis at the ncaa. This new NIL is being run by some very professional people who know what they are doing. Bohn and company just needs to stand by and watch.

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  10. All of us know it won’t mean anything if Alex Grinch can’t get the defense to play at an appropriate level. They really need to develop players on that side of the ball. The coaching seems to be lacking.

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      1. Ya MG. I think we have one of the top5 head coaches and probably one of the top 25 DC’s. That should be enough to get us playoff bound, and remember Grinch now has a genuine pro as a D analyst looking over his shoulder.

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      2. Yes –undoubtedly beautiful…… but….acting skills seemed to follow the Liz trajectory [a little weaker in every film]. By the time we get to Shampoo she’s forgotten how to sound human [listen to the delivery of that “I wanna suck your….” line at the dinner table….she sounds like she’s trying out for a part in Plan 9 From Outer Space]….
        [….Also she’s kinda a dipshit politically….. but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t say thanks for playing Lara …and…Happy Birthday]!

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      3. Not analogous to Liz and Dick. I think WB ruined JC’s acting career (somewhat). She was a star in 60’s Swingin’ London. Beatty was a political activist and JC probably heard criticism that she wasn’t as politically active as Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, and Jane Fonda. JC took smaller and more infrequent roles after meeting Beatty. She was great in Darling, Dr Zhivago et al.

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      5. Great for Beatty he abandoned womanizing and became a family man. When he tells Jackie in the movie that he can’t imagine being with anybody else, I think he’s speaking from the heart. Beatty pretty narcissistic, manipulative guy.

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      6. Though probably my favorite actress, sorry to go on about Julie Christie. Most of these actors lack intelligence and/or moral courage to take a stand against the prevailing Hollywood group-think.

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    2. Charles — speaking of sucking, just read that the Dalai Lama and Joe Biden are talking about doing an educational play on dementia…..
      #ComingToNetflixThisSummer!

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  12. Gabby, family lore tells me that in the late 1940s women were not allowed in the student rooting section at the coliseum. The student body president said this rule was because women knew nothing about football. My mother (a woman for those trolls who aren’t sure) challenged the student body President to a test of football knowledge. At stake was the ability to get tickets in the student section for women. Women out scored the men taking the test, and were allowed to sit in the student section. So I assume women or people using women’s names are just as welcome and knowledgeable as anyone on the blog (about football matters, maybe not politics but certainly football)

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    1. Biological females don’t challenge posters to fight you silly ghost. But Trans females do. They love to threaten people they disagree with.

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      2. Name the place and time?…… Oh’ wait, you’re a ball-less pussy and are only joking, my bad!

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      3. When we meet up for our fight you will be able to recognize me because I will be wearing my tiara….

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    2. That’s a great story, thanks for sharing. Trust me, I am all man and my wife constantly reminds me(if you know what I mean). Back in 2015, my oldest daughter gave birth to a stillborn girl at 28 weeks. They were going to name her Gabriella and use Gabby as a nickname. I only know my granddaughter in spirit and honor her remembrance by using her nickname.

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      2. Fake Gabby: I am honoring the real Gabby by acting like a 2-year-old stalker. I am so infatuated with the real Gabby. I see why my lover, slo troll, gets so infatuated with Biden…..Hate is tough to overcome!

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      4. Fake Gabby:I feel that acting like a deranged lunatic is always the best way to honor someone I am stalking…. I am so fucked up in the head….I know exactly how slo troll must feel

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      5. Fake Gabby: All I can focus on is the real Gabby…..I see why slo troll gets slapped around, he enjoys it…..wish Gabby would slap me around

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      6. “I feel that acting like a deranged lunatic is always the best way to honor someone who is deceased.”

        Too funny and so true!!!! If I were the whacko, I’d copy & paste your quote over & over again the way he likes to.

        Yet ANOTHER poster has told him how petty and foolish he looks. But he’ll act as if it was never written, after making excuses for it. I really do feel sorry fo him. He’s pathetic.

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      1. MORE FUCKING COMPREHENSION ISSUES,,, GET THE BRAIN CHECKED OUT….

        just like this blog member was basically calling you a fucking idiot, but you claimed he was mocking Biden….tooooo funnnny!

        “I don’t mind political talk (topical, etc) but going to the same sorry trope of Biden & Dementia reeks of desperation for acceptance, and I am NOT a fan of Biden. It’s low hanging fruit and it’s lazy. Take it to Facebook”

        LET’S MEET UP …..

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      2. I was at the University of Washington today doing my “honoring” thing…

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  13. I remember a while back you asserting that you were male and have never given readers reason to doubt that. I figured you were honoring someone, but didn’t know it was connected to a tragedy. I am truly sorry for your loss. For the record Gabby is also a male name, my first thought was Gabby as in Gabby Hayes. Anyway no matter what color your “tie” is, I believe your blood is Cardinal and Gold.

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