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Happy Birthday Tommy Trojan!

Tommy Trojan turned 93 today.

It was originally known as the Trojan Shrine and the sculpture created by Roger Noble Burnham.

Let’s look at Tommy through the years.

This picture is from May, 1939, nine years after the “Trojan Statue” made its debut. It was passed along from reader Rick Brown, and shows his father and grandparents, who were there to enroll his uncle at USC.
Tommy Trojan circa 1948-49.
Tommy Trojan in 1956
  • Overlooked fact: Actor George Arliss won the 1929 Oscar for best actor for “Disraeli” and here he is in 1930 dedicating the Trojan Shrine (Tommy Trojan) statue next to the administration building. That was a coup to get him for the ceremony.

47 thoughts on “Happy Birthday Tommy Trojan!”

  2. Widely-thought that Carol Folt would sack Tommy Trojan over her fear of the spread of Toxic Masculinity and White Supremacy on the USC campus as Carol seeks to play Jesus to the lepers in her head.

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      1. Good point, hal…
        …to really qualify……
        #….CarolNeedsToTravelWAYBackInTime….
        #…&HelpFatherDamianWithTheLeperColonyOnMolokai…
        #[After7Beers,I’llBeAbleToSeeHerFromOurLanai]

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  4. A little late with this joke I just saw, but with the merger of the PGA and
    “Saudi Invitational” the PGA will be handling holes 1-8 and 12-18
    whereas the Saudis will have control of 9-11

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  5. FYI SUCCster’s, the Trojans lost the war, its male population exterminated, and its women, children and seniors were sold into slavery.

    According to Trump, the Trojans are a bunch of two-bit losers.

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    1. The Trojans, led by Aeneas, founded Rome … the greatest of ancient civilizations….and the first empire to believe in “mercy for fallen enemies”….
      #…AStepUpFromTheEthicOfSparta:”ReturnW/ShieldOrOnIt”…

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      1. LOL MG, the Etruscans and wandering Latins founded Rome.

        Only a SUCC grad would believe that some running dog Trojan named Aeneas, fetched up on the Tiber and evicted Romulus and Remus.

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      1. But Nellie’s watching that SUCC Coward Jonniekins Wayne in the 1942 film “The coward Balboa Island.”

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      2. You would’ve like Wayne A LOT better than you woulda liked Wooden, my friend. Wooden was a smallminded man who screwed over my best buddy, Terry Schofield, just cuz Terry wasn’t deferential enough to him. When UCLA was in danger of losing it’s streak to Notre Dame he brought Terry in to save the day —then went right back to keeping him on the bench for the rest of the season.
        P.S.
        After Terry saved his ass all Wooden could say postgame was “yeah, we know he can shoot.”

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    3. Sorry guys…

      Since the generally accepted date of Troy’s destruction was 1184 BC, Roman historians maintained Troy’s unhistorical connection with Rome by inventing a series of fictitious kings who were supposed to have descended from the Trojan Aeneas and ruled the Latin town of Alba Longa for the intervening 431 years (1184–753 BC) until the last of the royal line, the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, founded their own city, Rome, on the Palatine Hill. According to tradition, the twins, believed to have been the children of the god Mars, were set adrift in a basket on the Tiber by the king of Alba; they survived, however, being nursed by a she-wolf, and lived to overthrow the wicked king. In the course of founding Rome the brothers quarreled, and Romulus slew Remus. This story was a Roman adaptation of a widespread ancient Mediterranean folktale told of many national leaders, such as the Akkadian king Sargon (c. 2300 BC), the biblical Moses, the Persian king Cyrus the Great, the Theban king Oedipus, and the twins Neleus and Pelias of Greek mythology.

      The regal period, 753–509 BC
      Romulus, Rome’s first king according to tradition, was the invention of later ancient historians. His name, which is not even proper Latin, was designed to explain the origin of Rome’s name. His fictitious reign was filled with deeds expected of an ancient city founder and the son of a war god. Thus he was described as having established Rome’s early political, military, and social institutions and as having waged war against neighbouring states. Romulus was also thought to have shared his royal power for a time with a Sabine named Titus Tatius. The name may be that of an authentic ruler of early Rome, perhaps Rome’s first real king; nothing, however, was known about him in later centuries, and his reign was therefore lumped together with that of Romulus.

      https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Rome/Romes-foundation-myth

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      1. Who you gonna believe? The Norman eggheads at Britannica? Or the immortal poet, Virgil?
        #HistoryShouldBeMoreLikePoetry…
        #…WithHeroes&HappyEndings

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      2. ….the only thing better [worse?] was Kamala and her hubby getting photographed kissing at an empty airport while both were double-masked….
        #Kamala:”IsThisWeirdEnoughToSatisfyTheDNC?”

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    3. Hey ’67, you AH, remember when SUCC was selling practice jock straps. As recall you bought 3 or 4 and used them as covid-19 masks.

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  7. I offered you a bite of my ice cream bar but you said no thanx.
    How you life might have been different.

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  10. Memo to: Commie Lush

    “The Coward of Balboa Island,” Staring Jonniekins “Olde Yellow Streak” Wayne.

    Is it true Commie Lush, that OYS defeated a whole brigade of Japanese soldiers on a Burbank movie back lot with just a broken Q-Tip?

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    1. Just Rent,

      Once again, a reminder, the greatest cheater, pimp, scammer, and scum, the great Johhnny “Cheetin” Wooden was a lousy and medicore coach until he bought all the players and turned the ncaa on to Trakatan to avoid the wrath of the ncaa. Wait, Morgan was a good friend with the ncaa president so the ncaa did turn a blind eye to the cheetin ruins of westweird-wood

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      1. PT, you wish bozo BB wasn’t OOOOOOO Ferever and proud of it.

        But instead you got Sark at premium buy out negotiated by St. Patsy.

        They’re still LOL @ UDub, ’cause they would’ve paid Clown U to take the Alky, Sark, off their hands.

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      2. It’s over a hundred miles …BUT… we have our own fucking [dormant supposedly] volcano right outside my window…..
        #IfItBlowsAllMyBlogEnemiesWillGetTheirWish….Instantly

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