When USC upset No. 1-ranked Washington in 1984 at the Coliseum, did the crowd storm the field? Nope.
Why not? I was at that game of many years ago and it never occurred to me the fans would try to rush the field.
If I had to offer a reason, USC was still close enough to the glory years that it had standards. It wouldn’t occur to them to celebrate like that because it was still USC. Maybe beating UCLA or Notre Dame would get people to rush the field but not other teams.
Standards have slipped in the ensuing four decades, obviously.
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One thing’s for sure…no one who would ever be with HER has any standards.
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Scott that 1984 victory over #1 Washington (cost them the national championship) is one of my favorite USC games … that USC team had a lot less talent but a lot of character … have a copy of it and have a copy of the SI article written afterwards … the book “Cardinal & Gold” talks about how Tollner almost got over the hump but the losses to UCLA and Notre Dame in ’84 after the UW upset and then the losses to the same two at the end of ’86 cost him his job … nevertheless, that 1984 win over the Huskies and the Rose Bowl win over Ohio State were essentially the last aftershocks of the great McKay/Robinson Trojan years and retain a place among the great USC wins …
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Most if not all of the USC fans, me included as I was there as well, were stunned that Tollner beat them, we couldn’t rush the field, we were in shock.
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What was the crowd like? Seemed like it was really loud (I watched on television) … when they went in at halftime trailing figured they would collapse in the second half … but they ground them down and didn’t feed them the turnovers and mistakes that Don James’ teams always thrived on …
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