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Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, Nov. 24, 1952
No. 50
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NEWLY-CROWNED PCC title-holders, the Trojans, who else, hoist Coach Jess Hill to their shoulders in impromptu victory celebration at final gun in Saturday's game with UCLA. Trojans had just cinched conference cham-
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pionship and Rose Bowl bid with 14-12 win over previously unbeaten Bruins. It was ninth straight win for Trojans who are yet to taste defeat with only Notre Dame remaining on schedule.
Gift Drive for GIs I Sole Concerto Gridders Dunk Hill; Begins Here Today
Students and faculty members will have the opportunity to brighten a GI s Christmas through the Campus Gift Lift which begins today and continues through Wednesday.
“Trojans can support a bigger and better squad of men be placed inside. Gifts will than any football team ever hoped to have by aiding the Gift Lift,” said Campus Chairman George Bums.
The campus commit^ is asking each sttident to donate one Sift for a soldier somewhere in ^orea. The gift need not be ex-a.nsive, but should be worthwhile.
1 The gifts should be gift-rapped and then covered with vn mailing paper. Postage is It necessary . A card with the Inors name and address should le placed in the inside. Gifts will [be collected in front of Bovard juditorium in a special deposit ox.
x'here is no limit on the size or weight of the package.
Some of the more appropriate and useful gifts, as suggested by the committee, include:
Ball point pens, writing pads and envelopes, pen knives, playing cards, harmonicas, soluble
| coffee, meat spreads, candy and cookies, soups, mixed nuts, handkerchiefs, soap, fingernail files, razor blades, books magazines, tooth powder and brushes, cigarette lighters, flashlights, billfolds, jnoney belts, wool socks, mufflers, gloves, and religious articles.
Many campus organizations are endorsing the project. Class coun-i cils are staging a contest to see which can donate the most gifts.
Include Organization Name
In case you are donating a gift as part of an organization, be sure to include the name of the group with your name, Blrns emphasized.
“Sound like a lot of trouble? Sure, it’s trouble. But consider just for a moment what those men are going through. They need our support and now we have a chance to give it to them,” Burns reminded, j “Thousands of our men are fighting to protect the things we i now- enjoy and. unless all of us pitch* in and show them that i theirs is not a worthless battle,
I Christmas will pass for them just I like any other winter day—a i combination of bullets, blood, and snow.”
Season Begins Tomorrow
A production of the SC School j of Music, the annual Student-Solo- j ist Concerto will begin its 1952-53 1 season with a concert in Bovard auditorium tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. : et:
Soloists on this year’s program have been chosen from the instrumental and vocal departments. They include Arthur Satz, pianist; June Lusk, pianist: Louise Winter, soprano; and Marie Manahan, cellist.
Barnett to Conduct
Professor Ingolf Dahl, conductor of the SC orchestra, who is nowr in Europe on leave, started the program eight years ago.
John Barnett, well known Los Angeles musician, will take the podium in the place of Dahl tomorrow night. Barnett is the regular conductor on “Standard Hour,” and the associate conductor cf the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. He also was conductor of the World’s Fair symphony, the Brooklyn symphony, and the Phoenix symphony orchestras.
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watch, and all. Between mouthfuls, Hill sputtered, “I don’t mind. It’s worth it.” Then the roar started again as the footballers cheered their coach.
Then gradually the players quieted down as they began their monotonous undressing chores. In their conversations the Trojans, like the true champions they are, gave their UCLA opponents all the credit in the world.
In his cubicle Troy’s All-American Elmer Willhoite, whose pass interception and run turned the tide of the ball game, was thinking it over. Quietly and courteously the big guard recalled the situation.
“I thought it w>as a run and drifted with the play,” he said. “Then, wham, there it was.” The speedy Elmer, SC’s fastest lineman, yvas asked how come he was caught from behind.
‘My leg tied up on me. I ran
15 yards with a cramped hamstring muscle, and besides,” he continued, “I w’as worried about fumbling the ball. My left hand was bandaged so I couldn’t hold on to the ball very well.
“Gee,” continued’ Elmer, “I’m happy as hell.” Willhoite thought he was responsible for "UCLA’s only touchdown when officials called him offside and put the ball on the 1-yard line.
“That center kept moving the ball,” explained Elmer, “and the officials let him get away with it.”
On the way to his dressing booth All-American Jim Sears was asked his opinion of the game.
‘They w7ere by far the best we’ve faced. Offensively we couldn’t do anything. That Moo-maw and Doud,” said Sears shaking his head for emphasis,” were outstanding.”
Al “Hoagy” Carmichael, be-(Continued on Page 3)
Victory Gives Troy PCC Title, Bowl Bid
By Fred Neil Daily Trojan Sports Editor *
MEMORIAL COLISEUM, Nov. 22—It is 4:42 of a gray, somber, fall afternoon, but for Trojan rooters everywhere it is June in November. Let it rain, let the wind blow, they're just too darn thrilled lo worry over nature's idiosyncrasies.
And well they might be for their team has just burst UCLA's Rose Bowl bubble with a courageous, albeit narrow, 14-12 victory over the Bruins.
As I write this the deliriously happy Trojan gridders have just allowed their great coach, Jess Hill, to plant his feet on terra firma once again and compose himself to accept the congratulations of UCLA’s Coach Red Sanders.
Jess Gels Ride
Before the echoes of the final gun had died away, the SC players had rushed Jess and hoisted him to their shoulders amid shouts, screams, and a few unashamed tears.
Meanwhile, directly below me, the Trojan rooting section is going crazy. Papers, hats, pompons, any and everything,! are flying through the air while the SC students pummel each other and go joyously berserk.
They have just seen the greatest football team in Trojan history, in this reporter’s opinion, hand the Bruins their first
Fans Go Berserk After Win
Praise Opponents
By Stan Wood
The celebration noises of V-J Day and New Year’s Eve were mere whispers compared to the din of the victorious SC dressing room.
Immediately after the game the cheering, laughing players carried Coach Jess Hill into the locker room and gave him an impromptu shower—glass-
RALLY AT 11 TODAY
A “spontaneous” rally to celebrate Troy’s victory over the Bruins will be held this morning at 11 in front - of Tommy Trojan.
Although the university has not officially canceled classes during the hour, it has left the way open for professors to dismiss students, Knights President Jim Cooke said late last night.
The Victory Bell will be rung again on campus for the first time in two years. The bell was exchanged yesterday afternoon at the corner of La Brea snd Olympic boulevard. Harry Brisacher, UCLA rally chairman, was on hand to represent the Bruins. About 10 SC students and George Tirebiter III accepted the bell.
defeat of the year; win Troy’s first undisputed Pacific Coast conference title and Rose Bowl bid since 1947; and chalk up its ninth straight win against no defeats.
Only the ever-dangerous Fighting Irish of Notre Dame remain as a bar to SC’s first perfect season since 1932. The Trojans meet the Irish next Saturday in South Bend.
Courageous Is lhe Word
The word courageous was used earlier and every one of the 96,869 fans who watched the Trojans this afternoon from their Coliseum seats and the additional millions throughout the nation who viewed the game via TV must surely agree that Mr. Webster has no more apt adjective in his collection with which to describe the men of Troy.
Twice they came from behind after breaks, whjch would have completely demoralized a less gutty team, had directly or indirectly led to all of the Bruin points.
They had seen comparatively short Bruin punts roll for yards and finally come to rest on the ten and one while much longer kicks by Des Koch were bouncing back toward the kicker.
Everything Happens
They had seen inopportune fumbles set up a field goal and safety and had seen an eight-yard loss turned into a five-yard gain for the Bruins, who wound up on the SC one with second down instead of the 14 with third, when the Trojans were slapped with a legitimate, but nonetheless painful, offside penalty. Two plays later, the Bruins had their only touchdown of the afternoon.
But this Trojan team had no intention of losing today. Nineteen seniors were getting their last crack at the Bruins and they had yet to beat them. They had suffered the most humiliating defeat in Trojan history two years ago when the Uclans dealt them a 39-0 lambasting.
Too, each and every man on the team, some mentally, others verbally, had promised Bob Van Doren that the team would get the ball tor him.
Bob On Sidelines
The great Trojan defensive captain, an All-American tackle if ever there was one, had to sit this one out today on on doctor’s orders due to recurrent headaches since receiving
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By Gene Williams
It was like the V-J celebration. No, on second thought, it was just as though the Trojans had won the right t* play in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day, and that’s just what had happened.
When the final gun sounded to end one cf the greatest football games in history, a gigantic roar issued from the collective mouths of the SC rooting section, shouting acclamation to the greatest football team in the country.
That’s just what they did after their favorite football players earned themselves a trip to the Rose Bowl by dumping the UCLA •Bruins.
Hugs Exchanged
The great roar which followed the game continued through the UCLA Alma Mater, and even kept the rooters preoccupied through a big part of the SC Alma Mater. Everyone in the rooting section was on his feet with the sound of the firing of the gun, and there were plenty of hugs exchanged among the fanatical rooters.
Everybody loved everybody else, but most of all, the fans loved the gridders that performed so brilliantly all afternoon for them. And then there was Coach Jess Hill. Up on the shoulders of his playera he went after the game, and when the yell leaders fiinally got the sections contained enough to give a yell, they gave out with a big “Coach, Coach Jess, Coach Jess Hill.”
Struggle Tense
The tenseness of the struggle could be seen throughout the game, as the fans sat on the edge of their seat, wringing their hands, covering their eyes at times, and giving out with cries of anxiety when it looked like the Bruins might move the ball too near the Trojan goal line.
The result of the tension could be seen anywhere you looked after the game. Some were so exhausted from the high pitch they had reached that it was an effort for them to move their bodies out of the stadium. Some just walked (Continued on Page 3)