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

USC is still recruiting former Utah guard Terrence Brown, who averaged 19.9 points last season. Brown is also considering Kansas, Kentucky, Oregon and Mississippi

  • Former USC pitcher Caden Hunter, who was a 6th round pick of the Baltimore Orioles last year, has a 1.46 ERA for the Class A team in Frederick, Md. That is currently the lowest ERA of any pitcher in the Orioles’ organization.
  • And now for some history:
  • Now this would be a huge story today. The night before USC played Notre Dame at the Coliseum in 1980, someone broke into the Irish locker room and stole 45 jerseys, 11 footballs, 11 pairs of cleats and eight gold helmets.

Before the game, a 13-year-old girl was selling the jerseys outside the Coliseum for $2.50 each. Many of the jerseys were bought by USC students and police traced the sales chain to the 13-year-old girl, who was arrested.

Police believed others were involved in the theft, but I’ll need to do some more research to see if anyone else ever got arrested. At the time of her theft, only six jerseys had been recovered.

  • Below is the 1981 All-Pac-10 offensive team.

I’m running it because USC’s offensive line had three first-team selections (Tony Slaton, Roy Foster, Bruce Matthews) and one second team (Don Mosebar).

  • In 1926, USC (5-0) and Stanford (6-0) were undefeated and playing at the Coliseum. A crowd of more than 78,000 packed the stadium, even though 75,000 was considered a sell out. Stanford narrowly defeated the Trojans, 13-12.

But here is an interesting side note: The night of the game, a movie house on the corner of Figueroa Street and Santa Barbara Ave. (now Martin Luther King Blvd.), showed films of the big game.

This preview references Trojan players Manuel Laraneta, Mort Kaer, Jeff Cravath (future USC coach), Jesse Hibbs (who directed 44 episodes of Perry Mason), Brice Taylor (USC’s first All-American) and Morris Badgro (a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame).

USC star tailback Morley Drury was on crutches the week of the game and did not play.

  • I can only imagine what Los Angeles was like 100 years ago but here was a place that served food until 1 a.m. on the corner of Exposition Blvd. and Vermont Ave. How many people were driving around at that time of night? This cafe was a stone’s throw from the house Sparky Anderson grew up in, but this was still eight years before he was born. If only a place like this existed today.
  • Now this is quite a movie review for The Godfather:

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

Ornella Muti

Eihi Shiina

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

  2. On a day on which the war in the gulf is only “on hold’….and marxist revolutionaries are spouting anti-constitution madness….I have only one thing to say:

    Ornella is a lot cuter than that photo makes her out to be.

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    1. Imagine sticking your head between those thighs to eat some custard pie. Get her all hotted up, she squeezes your head like a python and boom, you’re done

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  6. Buckley Jr really screwed the pooch with his review disparaging the work of Bruin Coppola’s all-time masterpiece!! universally ranked #1 movie of all time!!

    also hugely amusing a lil’ 13 yr old girl pulled of such a caper stealing the team blind of all their jerseys and then boldly selling them to the silver spooners on campus right under trOJies noses!!! HAWR-HAWR!!!

    wolfman only you could uncover these gems!! magnifico!!

    #ShoulddaBeenABruin

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    1. Dear Mister Buckley:

      “I realize it’s a little too late for you to follow this advice….but…don’t evaluate movies on the basis of conservative concepts of “proper entertainment”…..

      #…ILikedYouButALLYourMovieReviewsSucked

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      1. I can see those eyeballs flaring wide if he could read this

        Little known fact: Wolfman defeated Buckey in a widely anticipated debate at UCLA’s Royce Hall in 1974. The subject was international diplomacy focusing on SouthEast Asian politics. Wolfman shocked the audience with his erudition. It’s rumored Buckley never really recovered from his worst (and only known) defeat in a debating forum.

        #RenaissanceWolfman

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  7. Maybe the only movie where part 2 is equal to or better than the original

    Best way to watch it is the version that’s edited with Bobby D as young Vito all the way to Michael sitting all alone

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    1. Pagel had 29 TD’s, threw for 2400 yds, 53% completions ( 171 out of 331 ), 14 int’s

      Elway had 20 td’s, threw for 2600 yds, 58% completions ( 214 out of 366 ), 13 int’s

      Pagel led the conference in TD’s and QB rating

      Elway led the conference in attempts, yards thrown and yards per game

      ASU was 9-2, did not go to a bowl

      Stanford was 4-7

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  9. Pacific Dining Car opened in 1921. They were open 24 hours. A shame it never recovered after the pandemic.

    It was pricey, but worth it.

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    1. Great observation, So Cal. Nothing like one of their filets smothered in mushrooms after a full day’s work at City Hall….

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