TROJANS LEAD—With less than three minutes to play. Trojan fullback Bill Martin crashes through his own left tackle
for four yards to score SC's second touchdown. Dean Dill's conversion put the Trojans ahead, 14-7. A stunned, shriek-
ing crowd of 100,571 counted the seconds ticking by, waiting for the timekeeper's gun to end the greatest upset
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of the year. Then Bill Gay took the ensuing kickoff deep into SC territory to set up the tying last-seconds touchdown.
War Memorial FAVORED ND RALLIES TO TIE CAME
Drive Begins
Blood Bankers Due Tomorrow
A Red Cross mobile blood bank will amve on campus tomorrow to end SC s annual blood donation dnve.
Final registration tor donation appointments can be made today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the stand in front of Bovard, according to Bert Mathews, drive chairman.
All contributors will be issued a Red Cross donor card which can be used by him or any member ol his family to obtain a tree blood transfusion, equal to the amount donated, at any time it may be needed.
Donors under 21 will be given release slips which must be signed by their guardians before they will be allowed to make a donation.
The Red Cross said the development of new methods of curing diseases and aiding convalescing patients requires more blood donations than were needed even during the war. according to the Red Cross.
Trovets Propose Living Tribute By Aiding War Deads Children
Tomorrow, the seventh anniversary of Pearl Harbor, will mark the opening of a fund-raising campaign for the Trovet living war memorial.
Built by dollars contributed by students, faculty members, alumni, and the public, the fund will provide four-year
scholarships at SC for sons and j daughters of men killed in combat I in the last war.
Trovets will set up booths and j ! operate them until Dec. 17, when j \ they hope to have collected $10,000. j Each scholarship will amount to i $2400. which will give the student $300 a semester for four years at SC. i The scholarship fund will be put I j to use when the entire $10,000 has j j been raised. Applicants must be I sons or daughters of men killed in j j action in the last war. with a pn- j j ority given orphans living in chan- [
, table institutions and not receiving j j income from insurance or special j ! funds.
I No applicant will be denied the j j opportunity to compete fcr a schol- ■
; arship because of race, creed, re- i ! ligion, or national origin. They must ; have shown qualities of leadership ;
| and have placed in the scholastic j | upper half of their high school j ! class.
While attending SC. beneficiaries I ; must maintain a 1.5 graae point | average. In the event that the stu- j dent fails to do so during any one !
; semester, he or she must attain a | 2.0 average the following semester j Fund money will be deposited j ; with the University business otlice ‘ j and each donor will receive a re- ’
* ceipt from that office.	*!
Vol XL	Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, Dec. 6, 1948
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Alumni Hear Coaches, Scribes
Casino' Dance Puts Clincher On SC Week
A big week ended in crowded j i Casino Gardens Saturday night as j ; 4500 Trojans filled it to capacity j | for the Homecoming dance.
Music was provided by Dave Rose j | and his 35-piece orchestra and guest ; vocalist Martha Tilton. Interims- ! sions were livened by the danceable j music of SC’s Tommy Burrows and !
A radio broadcast starring some of the nation's top coaches and sportswriters, entertain ment by some of Hollywood's finest talent, roast turkey, and booming spirit by all of the more than 1000 alumni present at the 25th annual Men’s Homecoming banquet combmed to bring alumni football enthusiasm to the boiling pitch Friday night.
All they needed to boil over was a good showing against Notre Dame the next day.
The iive-hour program, generally agreed by attendees of the annual event to be, year in, year out, one of the finest shows of its kind presented anywhere, attracted a capacity audience to the men’s gymna- i sium. Even the balcony was filled to | overflowing.
Guests of honor for the occasion were the members of the 1923 var- j sity football squad, their coach. Elmer “ Gloomy Gus” Henderson, and j the fathers of this year's scrappy varsity.
Speakers at the affair included Ron Stever, president of the General Alumni association; Virgil Pinkley, Homecoming chairman; President Fred D. Fagg: Father Cavanaugh, president of the Uni-
versity of Notre Dame; Victor O Schmidt, commissioner of the PCC; Willis O. Hunter. SC's director of intercollegiate athletics; Charles Boren, chairman of the homecoming banquet, who presented a football autographed by team members to Pinkley; Prof. Hugh Carey Willett, head of the faculty committee on athletics (who incidentally made the hit of t'ne evening at the expense of George T. Davis and other sportswriters); Coach Cravath, Biil Spaulding, former director of athletics at UCLA; CBS Sportscaster Red Barber; and footnall prognosti-cator Deke Houlgate.
The broadcast, aired over KLAC under the direction of Frank Bull, brought forth a number of top coaches, each interviewed by a local sportswnter or editor. Cravath, Henderson, Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, California's Pappy Waldorf, Bert La Brucherie of UCLA, Howie Odell of Washington, and Ike Armstrong of Utah all cams under tne n-_ t-always-gentle axe of the scribes.
Most of the coaches were called
upon to make a guess as to the outcome of Saturday's game. Leahy, although hooted at the time turned out to be as close as anyone, though it is to be doubted if he will actually b^ ousted over a tnree-yeai record with two sore spots on it as he claimed he might be. *
Other entertainment ior the show was emceed by H. Eames Bishop, SC '35, now an executive of the Music Corporation of America. This included top-flight talent such as the Mills Brothers; Academy Award winner Celeste Holm; imitator Paul Regan; Edgar Bergen and his Fighting Irish dummy McCarthy; the Costello twins, blond acrobatic dancers; the sensational rubberfaced comic Jack Marshall; Joe Frisco, the inveterate horseplayer; and Spike Jones, who brought along three of his City Slickeds-^Sir Frederick Gass, juggler Bill King, and the irrepressible Doodles Weaver, the only man in Stanford's history ever to pay his tuition in pennies. Matty Malneck’s orchestra and the SC band provided music.
Fighting Trojans Raise PCC Stock
by Mal Florence
Never, never, until Tommy Trojan steps off his pedestal and
has a cup of coffee in the Student Union, will gridiron cynics again rate a Trojan eleven as a 20-point underdog. The 1948 Trojans, a team berated by the press, sneered at by self-styled pigskin authorities, beat, battered, and humiliated Notre
Dame, supreme grid ruler of the* —"--
land, Saturday in the Coliseum—but j obtained only a 14-14 tie for efforts.
The following are the winning floats in tbe homecoming float contest:
Grand sweepstakes—Delta Tau Delta.
Most beautiful—Phi Kappa Psi.
Most unusual—Phi Delta Chi.
Most humorous—Sigma Chi.
Most symbolic—Alpha Chi Alpha,
Rooters Honor Coach Leahy
SC's rooting section and band
his Campus Combo and guest vocalist Bill Warfield.
The special decorations provided unscheduled entertainment. Cardinal and gold streamers which covered the ceiling were used to upset two huge suspended baskets of colored balloons. The result looked like a basket ball game and sounded like the Fourth of July.
The block letters which saluted Troy on a led curtained background and Notre Dame on a green draped wall took a beating. When the "o” fell off “Hello Notre Dame" it was replaced, but it seemed to look better as the first word.
Save for 150 seconds of the fourth quarter, the thrice-beaten Troys had accomplished what no other grid eleven has been able to do
since 1945—humble Notre Dame. [
But a bolt of green lightning named : showed impartiality as they seren-Bill Gay gathered in SC's kickotf j aded the dressing rooms after the following the supposed game-clinch- j game Saturday, ing touchdown and raced 87 yards When coach Frank Leahy emer*-
• ed. they hoisted the Irish mentor on the shoulders of three cheer j leaders and demanded a speech-
down the north sidelines to Troy s 13—Don Doll, reliable No. 27. playing his last game for SC. hauled the fleet Irish back down at this point.
FAVORED RAMBLERS Troy reassembled its forces and braced themselves on the 13. Bob Williams. sub-I r i s h quarterback sneaked through the middle for five
Mr. Leahy was up to the occasion. “Without a doubt,” said Leahy, “this is one of the best teams we met all year. Sterling coaching by Mr. Cravath and fine team play
yards. Then, the same Mr. Williams made P°^lbIe >’our nnpressive show-faded and tossed a pass over Mr. *8 today but the spirit of all of Gay’s head in the end zone. Third . -vou also contributed to this fin* down-five yards to go for a first! performance this afternoon, down, eight to go for a score, was - And then he added: the situation when Williams passed • ‘-This is the first time in my again to Gay in the southwest cor- coaching career that I have been ner of the end zone.	j so highly honored by the student
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5000 ’Whoop It' at Rally
A LOOK into the future was depicted by this Phi Kappa Psi float. It won third prize in the final judging at the Coliseum. That honor was bestowed upon it for its beauty but •culd have been awarded for its metaphysical properties in predicting the game's outcome.
For three and a half, spirit-raising hours, five thousand Trojan rooters whooped and hollered Friday night at the star-studded pre-Notre Dame pep rally.
Applauding with hand-operated sirens and truck horns, whistles and stamping feet, the rooters kept the rafters of the Shrine auditorium figuratively rocking as top-notch entertainers performed in rapid-fire order.
Disc-jockev Peter Potter emceed the show backed up by stars of stage, screen, and radio collected by Jack Graves and his rally committee.
Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy, on stage with Jeff Cravath, nearly stopped the show with his annual, pessimistic prediction of the Irish's chance against the SC team. Although Leahy’s words were later seen to be correct, the disbelieving rally audience haw-hawed heartily.
In shirt sleeves, rooter cap, and cardinal and gold striped suspenders, Alex “pickupa couplabucks” Cooper teamed with Potter and the SC cheerleaders to lead some yells.
Vocalist Artie Wayne crooned
"Love Somebody” from a half-crouching position when the microphone slipped to the three-foot level. Wayne's second rendition was also disturbed, this time by a hasty change of mikes.
Comedian “Doodles” Weaver also
VA to Interview Checkless Vets
Two representatives from the Veterans Administration will be at the campus Veteran’s Affairs office tomorrow and Wednesday, 9 a.:n. to 12 noon and 1-3 p.m. to help students in training under the GI Bill, P. L. 346, who have not yet received subsistence checks for the current semester.
Students who have received Letters of Award for this semester should bring them. The representatives will not have cash with them, but they will try to straighten out eaoh veteran's affairs so that he will receive his check as quickly as possible.
The Veterans’ Affairs office is at 834 West 36t& street
encountered the unexpected. Yell leaders Ken Kearns and Pet'_> Hal-lock, in an impromptu kidding, carried Johnny McEwen, limp and grasping an “empty,” across the stage behind the comedian. Weaver recovered his composure and then gave his interpretation of “Nature Boy.”
Pete Daily and his Chica^ians apparently played their jazz so hot that it was irresistable to two “hep-’ rooters who were jitterbug-ging in the aisle.
The television audience, the first to view an SC rally, was given the opportunity to see Homecoming Queen Charlene Hardey and her attendants who were introduced by Announcer Jack Myers.
Bob Keene and the original Artie Shaw band, Bobbie Ward, the Mod-ernaires, Harry “the hipster” Bib-son, and the Ernie Felice quartet were on hand to entertain.
Appearing also were Vince Barnett, Beryl Davis, The Trenier twins, Billy Farrell, Doris Drew, Fanny Faye Thomas, and seven Theta Chis who sang the official homecoming song “Welcome Home.”
KING FOR A DAY Biil Mayes didn't cart home a refrigerator or a millon dollars, but he did much better; he won date with Queen Charlene Hardey to the Homecoming dance.
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