Tommy Trojan was unveiled 94 years ago today on June 6, 1930. It was known as the Trojan Shrine back then.
Here is sculptor Roger Noble Burnham creating his masterpiece.
Here he is in 1956.
Here is the famous author William Peter Blatty (“The Exorcist), who worked at the USC News Service, in 1958.
Here’s Tommy Trojan at USC Homecoming in 1984.
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.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
Regarding Tommy Trojan, slo cal has always been interested with what’s going on behind Tommy’s loin cloth……sicko!
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so do we think Gavin Newsome’s budget strategy to defund the police and other safety positions in CA help USC’s recruiting goals?
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Did you say USC….Or ….CCP?
#[Hint:Pelosi,Schiff&NewsomAllPlayForSameTeam….
#……AndIt’sDefinitelyNotOurs]…..
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George Arliss walked 4 miles every day of his life upon reaching adulthood. He was always very grateful to the chance he got when he came to America as an actor both silent and ‘talkies’. He gave Bette Davis her first acting credit which she never forgot and stayed married to his wife Flo for 47 years until his death in 1947.
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My mother was friends with William Peter Blatty’s wife and said Blatty seemed pretty normal, and of course he was a devout Catholic who claimed that in writing the Exorcist he was not trying to scare anybody (but apparently he miscalculated). I woud take my Catholic buddies to the film and watch them get really scared
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