[Islander2]

I will never forget watching my first football game. It was either ‘44 or ‘45 in the Coliseum, SC played UCLA. Don’t remember the score, but SC won. They had the Hardy brothers.

[x1stcav]

‘44 or ‘45?

You got me beat.

The first one I went to was in ‘56 when Downey HS (my father’s alma matre) played Anaheim HS for the CIF championship. It was so foggy you could hardly see the game.

[Fiji Hill]

I will never forget watching my first football game. It was either ‘44 or ‘45 in the Coliseum, SC played UCLA. Don’t remember the score, but SC won. They had the Hardy brothers.

That probably would have been the game of November 25, 1944, a warm and sunny day during which the Trojans outlasted the Bruins 40-13. In those years, USC and UCLA played twice a season, and they played to a tie earlier that season in the first round.