Posted on 11/18/2017 5:09:17 AM PST by x1stcav
On Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the USC Trojans will face the UCLA Bruins in football for the 87th time since 1929.
Saturday’s game falls on the 50th anniversary, to the day, of what many consider to be the biggest, best, most dramatic and most important football game played in the rivalry.
That game, played on Nov. 18, 1967, would determine the city and conference (AAWU at the time, now the Pac-12) champion, the Rose Bowl representative and, ultimately, the national champion. Oh, and also the Heisman Trophy winner.
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I was finishing my last quarter at UCLA and waiting to go into the Army. It was a great time to be alive.
(I've known ever since that day that OJ was guilty.)
Jun 67 I had just arrived at Los Angeles Air Force Base, from U of Michigan. I had a little family enjoying Manhattan Beach so I was not aware of the UCLA USC rivalry. Michigan Ohio State,yeah.
Over the 30 years we lived there, my wife chose UCLA over USC which was too snooty in her book.
My kids went away to college.And never were football fans.
Your wife is a good judge of institutional character.
Remind me where LA AFB is?
2017 USC/UCLA is a game for the ages???
USC is overrated and UCLA is awful....what year is this guy referring to?
^My bad...he was referring to ‘67 not ‘17..wish we had an edit button...
I didn’t see the game in 1967. On that day, I was at a picnic with my high school German club (far more high school students were studying German in 1967 than is the case today). But I’ll be in the Coliseum this afternoon to cheer on the Trojans.
There is nothing quite like a USC football game on their home turf.
Tommy Trojan, the horse, the band.....it’s like no other college game I have been to.
Fight On!!!
The coolest performance ever by the USC Trojan band was when they appeared with Fleetwood Mac.
I was there ... a missed extra point by Zenon Andrusyshyn was the difference in the game.
You’re right about German. I took four years in HS and four in college.
Your memory is good.
Andrusyshyn had a real flat trajectory. As I recall the put their tallest players (over 6’7”...Ron Yary? and another guy) up front and they got a hand on it.
I enjoy viewing clips of classic college football games from the 50’s and 60’s. My initial impression is always how relatively small those players were compared to today’s behemoths.
That was, indeed, cool! Watch it here.
To further buttress your point:
If you can, watch a video of the 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Giants and the Colts. Not only were the players tiny compared to today but their conditioning compared to today was so poor they could barely stand up at the end of the 4th quarter.
But, we’d have to expect some improvements after half-a-century.
I was at their homecoming game when they performed, “Tusk.”
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Finished my MS at USC in Jan. 81.
I was in town for one of the rivalry weekends a few years earlier at a bar/restaurant called The Black Whale.
What a great time!
Oh, yeah; I remember that game. 21-20. I was a rabid UCLA fan and I hated — and still do! — USC.
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