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

Can you believe USC has not played at Michigan Stadium since 1958?

Eight of the previous 10 matchups between the teams was in the Rose Bowl.

  • One thing I’ve heard in the coaching grapevine is that UCLA offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy has an NFL playbook that is way more plays than an average college playbook.
  • Saturday’s USC-Michigan game is a stripe out. Even sections wear blue while odd sections wear maize.
  • And now for some history:
  • When USC lost to Michigan, 20-19, in 1958 about 500 Trojan students welcomed the team when it arrived at Los Angeles International Airport. Imagine that happening today?
This picture is from the last time USC played at Michigan Stadium in 1958
  • When USC played Michigan in the 1970 Rose Bowl, the Trojans were ranked No. 4 and the Wolverines No. 7. Just days before the game, Michigan coach Bo Schembechler suffered a heart attack.

USC won the game, 10-7, to become John McKay’s second team to go undefeated in 10 years with a 9-0-1 record.

USC’s hope for a national championship was dashed when No. 1-ranked Texas scored with 68 seconds left to squeak past No. 9 Notre Dame, 21-17, in the Cotton Bowl.

  • Here is Jimmy Jones running upfield in the game.
  • John McKay and assistant coach Craig Fertig on the USC sideline.
  • One of the game’s stars was wide receiver Bob Chandler, who scored the game’s only TD when he caught a 13-yard pass at the 20-yard line and slipped out of a defender’s grasp and then faked another to go the final 20 yards to score.
USC vs. Michigan on Jan. 1, 1970
  • After USC beat Michigan in the 1990 Rose Bow, the bookstore sold T-shirts that said, “Bo Didn’t Know Diddley.” It was a reference to Michigan coach Bo Schembechler and probably not in the best taste since it was Schembechler’s last game as Michigan coach.
  • This is the front page of the Los Angeles Examiner when USC hosted Michigan in 1957. A loss was viewed as a moral victory. That is because Michigan was ranked 10th in the nation and USC was coming off a 20-0 loss to Oregon State in Don Clark’s first game as USC coach.

And here is the Examiner explaining a play from the game with a picture.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

Sharon Tate at Cannes in 1965.

VIDEOS OF THE WEEK

Freda Payne celebrated her birthday yesterday so here she is performing her hit, “Band of Gold.”

Jane Wells, a USC graduate, has worked for KTTV, KNBC, KFI and CNBC among others, is retiring. Here is her career in two minutes.

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

      2. So true. No one wants her here. But we can all see why no one else wants her around either. So she keeps coming here, where she’s not wanted. So sad.

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      3. more whining and crying……..it’s pathetic how you take the bait EVERYTIME.

        TRUMP FOR PRISON…….THE ORANGE CHEETO SOUNDS LIKE A BABBLING BUFFOON

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  2. Well, back in the 1930s to 1950s Los Angeles didn’t have professional teams so SC was the big shot in town and fans would show up at train stations and airports to greet the team

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  4. A good thing about SC merging with the ‘Big-10’ is that Trojans don’t have to wait decades anymore to play teams like Ohio St, Michigan and Penn St

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      1. It’s the untimely ‘holding penalties for 15 yards’ that gets me. There’s some kind of ‘holding’ on every play, it’s too much of a subjective call, and refs subconsciously ‘lean’ toward the friendly home crowd with close calls

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      7. “Disgusting” describes Cowardly Gabby perfectly

        Gabby (original)
        JUNE 23, 2023 AT 4:17 AM
        With drool rolling off his chin, plow told his wife, after I clean shi**er #2 and #4 at the boxing gym, “I am going to give Gabby a good a$$ whipping”….Mrs plow replied “STFU!”

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  5. So Michigan is pulling out one of their rare “Stripe-Outs.’ Don’t tell me this SC game is not a big deal for Michigan (and for SC too)

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      1. Plow Horse

        SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 AT 4:08 PM

        The Narcissist’s Airtight Victim Narrative

        From Psychology Today

        March 2023:

        KEY POINTS

        1. Exaggerated victimhood is a common feature of narcissistic grandiosity.

        2. Narcissistic personalities often feel victimized because of their unrealistic expectations, hypersensitivity, and lack of empathy.

        3. Narcissists also play the victim to elicit sympathy and avoid responsibility for their abusive behavior.

        See Gabby’s claim of victimhood below.

        Lack of empathy, abusive behavior, it all fits.

        And of course she has now taken over the blog so that he is the center of attention, the most obvious narcissist personality trait

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  7. Uderrated Bob Chandler exhibits ‘the fake move’ which all the great runners know, the ‘escape-artists’ such as SC’s Anthony Davis and Reggie Bush

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  8. Eric Bieniemy makes the same mistake as Paul Hackett and Charlie Weiss. You can’t install a professional offense at the college level and expect college player to run it effectively. UCLA’s program is a mess. Will not win a game in the BIG this year.

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    1. Hey, road apple, perhaps it’s a lack of talent and not the system……..

      Once again, your football IQ is limited!

      Barstow?

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      1. Cowardly Gabby needs her meds after being exposed as a freak once again

        Chickensh*t Gabby is a Butthurt Narcissist
        JULY 4, 2023 AT 10:07 PM
        Meet me in Miami at 4pm ET tomorrow, Chickensh*t Gabby! If you aren’t there, you are only proving your name. I don’t want to hear any excuses! None! No f*%king excuses! Tomorrow at 4pm ET! Be there or everyone will know for a fact that you are a true chicken

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  9. I got a “What is that about!’ moment with that picture above showing what a first appears to be a referee being hoisted on the shoulders of a team he just helped win

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  10. But it was Bush that most believe was the Trojans’ ‘Mr. Excitement’. The first time he touched an SC ball he ran right, saw nothing there, so then sprinted around the left side for a big gainer. I thought to myself, ‘this guy is the real deal’

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  12. It’s still a memory, on one of those AD run-backs for tds he had one guy to beat, he showed him a leg which the tackler went for, and then pulled it away

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      6. Cowardly Gabby, I love how I outed you as TrojanFan1 and Charlie Bucket the Bruin Fan. You have become psychotic since your days decades ago when you were initially clever. The HIV, drugs and booze put an end to your humor.

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      2. I want a tie for the Heisman!

        [With USC getting to claim both winners …and 2 new banners going up]….

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  17. And some tv football “expert” has Miller Moss going as the 3rd pick in next year’s NFL draft. But “It’s Miller Time” still has a lot to prove

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      2. so a healthy team will get the win…..interesting……..you sound like a total dumb—–a s s ……. go service sola and quit being a pest

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  18. There is nothing like an excited football crowd where both teams think they will win such as presented by SC-Michigan. I have taken nephews to the Coliseum for their first experience at a game, and they never forget it

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  19. Scooter,

    I am amazed that you forgot to mention this. You had mentioned that Schmebecler had a heart attack back in 1970. However, you forgot to mention that SC had ties to the coaching staff for Michigan. The future Sc head football coach, took for for Schembelcker that Rose Bowl game.

    Come on Scooter, you are better than that. I will give you a Mulligan

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