A reader who saw the picture of Marv Goux in today’s column reminded me that yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the death of Pvt. Tony Goux, who died at the Battle of the Bulge. Marv Goux was only 12 when his father died.

• Don Clark played football at USC in 1942 before joining the Army. Clark was only 20 when he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He lost six fillings in his teeth when a German 88 mm artillery shell went off near him.

After the war, Clark returned to USC and played football in 1946-47. He became a USC assistant coach for five years and was the Trojans’ head coach in 1957-59. He should also get credit for hiring John McKay as an assistant coach in 1959.

Clark also hired Goux as an assistant in 1957. Goux had helped Clark work on his home in Baldwin Hills before he got hired. Clark’s house, by the way, survived the Baldwin Hills dam disaster in 1963 that destroyed 277 houses.

• Sports writer Jeff Pearlman wrote a piece on USC defensive line coach Eric Henderson attacking a reporter on twitter. The most interesting part is he got a response from a USC official.