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

It’s something to actually be able to watch first-round games of the Big Ten women’s basketball tournament and men’s games next week. I can’t even remember when I last saw Pac-12 Tournament first-round games that were always on the Pac-12 Network.

USC plays Indiana at 9 a.m. PT today.

  • USC’s Homecoming football game will be against Iowa on Nov. 15. Seems like a late Homecoming.
  • USC baseball has a big three-game series vs. Oregon in Irvine this weekend.
  • And now for some history:
  • Quarterback Rob Hertel hands off to fullback Mosi Tatupu in the Trojans’ 49-0 victory over Stanford in 1977.
  • This photo is from the 1969 USC-UCLA game at the Coliseum, best known for a controversial 32-yard TD catch by WR Sam Dickerson that enabled USC to win, 14-12. This photo features “Wild Bunch” defensive end Charlie Weaver (No. 84) and all-Pac-8 UCLA offensive guard Dennis Alumbaugh (No. 67).

A DIFFERENT WORLD

  • Imagine being in Los Angeles in 1947. A crowd of 102,050 packs the Coliseum to watch the No. 4-ranked USC face No. 18 UCLA. If the Bruins win, there will be a four-way tie for first place in the Pacific Coast Conference standings.

If you weren’t at the game, you could listen to Frank Bull, who was considered “the dean of Southern California sportscasters.” Bull had done USC games since the late 1920’s.

USC won, 6-0, and here’s the play of the game as Jack Kirby catches the only TD on a Jim Powers pass as Benny Reiges looks on.

  • USC wide receiver Malcolm Moore celebrates after scoring a touchdown in the Trojans’ 30-7 victory over Stanford in 1983 at the Coliseum.
  • Look at how nicely USC did card stunts in 1956.
  • The rosters in the game program for the 1947 USC-UCLA game featured a Perry Como ad for Chesterfield cigarettes. Remember, 34 years later, the memorable SCTV spoof “Perry Como: Still Alive.” Watch it here.

And I think that is singer Jo Stafford with him. She just happened to perform her NBC national radio show live from the Shrine Auditorium as part of the USC Homecoming festivities in 1947. Prior to the show, Stafford was named top female artist played on juke boxes by the trade publication Coinbox. By 1953, she signed a four-year $1 million deal with CBS-TV and by 1954 became the second artist behind Bing Crosby to sell 25 million records.

Jo Stafford with George Tirebiter at 1947 USC Homecoming show.

But the reason I’m interested in this roster page is if you blow it up, the game officials are listed with their colleges next to their name. That would never happen today.

  • If you are a regular reader, you know I love USC’s basketball uniforms from the 1970’s and early 1980’s.
  • USC forward Leonel Marquetti (32) and guard Barry Brooks (14) go for a rebound while UCLA forward Kiki Vandeweghe looks on in 1980
  • Forward Bob Trowbridge takes a shot against Cal at the Sports Arena in 1976. The Trojans started the season 11-1 and were ranked No. 15 in the nation before losing 15 straight games.

PICTURES OF THE DAY

  • It’s Türkan Şoray. She is known as “Sultan” of the Cinema of Turkey.
  • And English actress Diana Dors.

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

    1. KAM:Kamala Aide Under DOJ Investigation For Allegedly Falsifying Paperwork To Get Musk Buyout

      DON: Ruh Roh- The hiring conspiracy could involve Harris herself, as well as ex-FTC chair Lina Khan.

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      1. Gee who was the President 2 years ago, Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts? Was Senile Joe tanking the economy 2 years ago? And for more comedy, his deadbeat son is as broke as you are. Maybe you can share your dumpster home on 6th and Grand Avenue with Hunter and be an actress in his videos?

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  2. KAM: The DNC is not a viable party without corruption, theft and fraud.

    DON: Makes it clear that without the stealing of funds they do not have the power to be a major party. Their ideas do not grow out of organic support but by major psychops created by money siphoned out of our taxpayer monies.

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    1. Manure Man- a good name for a guy full of s h i t

      tell us about the 1962 football…..or was that another lie….like your uncles sports bet

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      1. Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts, tell us again how your beloved lib CBS is lying! You are like your heroine
        Democrat Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove who admits, “We are gonna continue to speak lies to his truth, to his stealing and to his cheating.”

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  6. KAM: LA City officials said Tuesday they are projecting a nearly $400 million shortfall in the upcoming budget year.

    DON: That update followed news from the City Controller on Friday that revenues will come in even less than expected. And they are getting nothing as long as they refuse to assist the INS in removing Senile Joe’s illegal aliens.

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  7. KAM: There is an increasing movement of people calling for Adam Schiff to be charged and arrested over the “Russian Collusion” hoax.

    DON: I agree. This is way overdue.

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  8. Sam’s catch wasn’t controversial. USC 14-12 over the gutties. USC goes to Rose Bowl and beats Bo Schembechler’s Michigan team, 10-3, and should have been National Champ. Nixon paved the way for Texas to win the Natty that year. Google “Nixon 1969 football national championship”. Scott’s moderator monkey denied the cut and paste of the article. Texas ran the wishbone, they couldn’t pass to save their lives, and good luck on TX running on the Wild Bunch if they had met each other. USC was undefeated, TX was 9-1-1.

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  9. Kamala: Trump Administration Announces Immediate Cut of $400 Million in Federal Funding to Columbia University Citing School’s Failure to Address Rising Antisemitism on Campus

    DON: Promises Kept!

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  10. KAM: The NY Times writes that “if ActBlue were to become severely diminished” it would be a massive blow to the Democrats in the upcoming elections, with funding being allocated to Democrats ranging from local school boards all the way to the Presidency.

    DON: Without this funding available, it would be increasingly more difficult for the Democrats to wage a formidable response to the America First policies of the Trump administration in the 2026 Midterm Election

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  11. KAM: The astronauts were only supposed to be up there for 8 days and now have been there for 8 months.

    DON: SpaceX could have sent up another Dragon and brought them home 6 months ago, but the Biden White House (not NASA) refused to allow it. Elon will bring them home.

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  12. KAM: New report on Democrat cheating disappointing for Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts:

    DON: USAID: Grant Laundering

    DON: ActBlue: Donation Laundering

    DON: Popup NGOs: Federal Program Laundering

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  13. Cowardly Gabby aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts spams are all disappearing!

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  19. KAM: LA’s top homelessness official signed $2.1 million contract with husband’s employer.

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  20. KAM: I got to tell you how I love this Polish proverb about love– “The greater love is a mother’s, then comes a dog’s, and then a sweetheart’s

    DON: I don’t know, to me love is an exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else

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  21. KAM: Why is Mayor Karen Bass deleting her text messages?

    DON: The city’s own document retention policies dictate that most records should be kept for at least two years. Under state law, “any writing” related to the conduct of government is deemed a public record. So she broke the law- will the Democrat State Attorney General or City Attorney do anything?

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