OJ. BRINGS HOME THE ROSES
’By PAUL MORANTZ Co-Sports Editor
II	was a new experience for UCLA Coach Tommy Prothro. He sat in the locker room, sipping a coke, a loser in the Coliseum for the first time in his UCLA career, 21-20 to USC. And this was probably the game he wanted to win the most.
“Well,” he said, “it’s been a great two and nine-tenths seasons.”
Outside the locker room on the Coliseum grass, the USC student body paraded before the Bruin cheerin'? section, shouting. e re No. 1. and celebrating the end of the two and nine-tenth season reign of Bruintown.
“Eat your hearts out.” a Trojan banner said. Los Anireies is Tro.iantown. now. So is Pasadena and so is the West Coast. Today the students, copHips and players will be waiting for the UPI pnd AT1 to say that the nation belongs to the Tro-jms. too.
The students already believe it does. A banner nn>v>Up(l at the n-pme’s conclusion and proclaimed: “USC—’62 and '07 national champs.”
And in tho USC locker room. Coach John McKay, soaked with water from his victory shower, paired with the students. “I imagine the polls will probablv name some team like Tampa No. 1, ’ lie spid. “But we’re going to win something because I’m going to name my own national champion and it’s going to be us.”
During the season, McKay had never voted for USC to be No. 1 in the UPI poll. But his vote will be different this week.
If the Trojans do end up anything less than No. 1 it will be an injustice, for the simple reason
that Tennessee, the team currently ranked No. 2, has lost to the Bruins. In fact, if the No. 1 ranked Bruins drop to anything lower than No. 2 it will be an injustice.
Only the two best teams in the nation could have put on the show the Bruins and the Trojans did Saturday in the Coliseum. It had to be the greatest game played anywhere, anytime.
Radio announcer Mike Walden said on “Trojan Huddle” Sunday that he thought USC’s Rose Bowl win over Wisconsin in the 1063 Rose Bowl was just as exciting. “It was 43-37” he said. “I’ll never forget that score.” But Walden has already forgotten it. The real score was 12-37.
The game had its individual duels, which were just as exciting as the team duel for the Rose Bowl.
Rikki Aldridge won his scoring duel with Zenon Andrusyshyn. 3-2.
And that proved to be the difference as the Heisman Tropliv duel between quarterback Gary Beban and halfback O.J. Simpson ended in a tie, O.J. rushing for two scores and Beban passing for two.
Each scored a bomb. Beban hit George Farmer with a 53-vard touchdown aerial and Simpson, as the world now knows, raced (51 yards for the game’s final score and all the glory that any football team could ever achieve.
The best thing that could happen now is for the Heisman Trophy vote to end in a tie.
The word to describe Simpson and Beban is
guts.
O.J. played with a sore foot that had previously kept him out of a game and with a sore hip point he received from the fierce Bruin tackling. For
most of the game, the Bruins knocked O.J. down quickly and hard. And after each jarring tackle they courteously helped him back up. It was a courtesy O.J. was to repay later in the fourth quarter when he allowed the Bruins to get a close look at his 9.4 sprinter speed. The courtesy was on a look-but-don’t-touch basis.
Simnson only had 30 yards in the first half (lie had 177 in the game), but even that was a good performance. Against Oregon State, the previous week, he ran for over a hundred yards in the first half but never crossed the goal line. This time O.J. used his yardage more wisely, saving half of those 30 for Troy’s second score.
If Gary Beban is not the greatest quarterback to play the game, then he must be the coolest. Either that or he’s a masochist.
Playing with sore ribs. Beban received a worse beating from the Trojans than he could have gotten from Cassius Hay. He was knocked out of the game three times. Even when Gary was completing his nasses it was under such pressure that he was being dumped hard right after releasing the ball.
A lesser quarterback might have started listening for footsteps and hurrying his passes. But not Beban. Each time he dropped back he waited calmly for his receivers to break open and then he fired. Pain was a price he was willing to pay for victory, but he didn’t get what he paid for.
Beban’s performance was similar to that of Heisman Trophy winner Mike Garrett’s in 1965. Like Mike, Beban played his heart out, giving his team a lead late in the game, only to see a newcomer to football who was bottled up in the early part of the game undo his work with one bomb.
The newcomer who ruined Garrett’s biggest dream in 1965, of course, was Gary Beban. In 1967, it was O.J. Simpson.
The game had other stars, too — End Dave Nuttall for the Bruins and Zenon Andrusyshyn and the USC defensive team for the Trojans.
Nuttall held on to seven Beban passes. Zenon put a low trajectory and a hook into his place kicks that allowed Troy to block two of his field goals and sent a field goal and an extra point wide to the left. Tt was ironical that USC should win by the toe when everyone exnected USC to lose by it. It was an irony that McKay later said he was “verv glad of.”
For the t^nth time this year, USC’s defensive squad, undoubtedly the best in the nation, was superb.
And most outstanding was sophomore Jim Gunn. The lineman-of-the-g;ime had the guts and desire to put himself in the Beban-Simoson ch»s.
Gunn should be flown immediately to Washington, D.C. and awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart.
•Timmy was a terror in the first quarter, giving Beban many of his bruises. Only then he tore some ligaments in his leg. From then on he was on the sidelines, watching. But near the end. when Beban threatened. Gunn asked McKay to send him back in despite the condition of his leg. Jimmy wanted his team to win and to go to the Rose Bowl, even though it is a game he won’t be in.
McKay sent him back in and Beban never threatened again.
The defense had many heroes. The seniors for instance — Tim Rossovich, Chip Oliver, Ty Salness, (Continued on Page 5)
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1967
NO. 41
A bell and a city change hands
By STAN METZLER City Editor
It had been three years since the Trojans had beaten UCLA in a major sport.
Saturday they got Los Angeles back, and they started celebrating by claiming the Coliseum.
Even before the final seconds had been completely counted out by the frantic crowd the first frenzied fans had begun pouring onto the dyed and painted Coliseum turf, running wildly for the team that had proved itself one point better than the world.
The transfer of ownership was set for completion at noon today, with a final rally in front of Tommy Trojan to celebrate the citv championship, the Rose Bowl bid. a probable national championship and possible Heisman Trophy for O. J. Simpson.
Also the return of the often-repainted Victory Bell, which rang atop a Southern Pacific Freight train engine and now tolls all year for the school that last won the biggest of the biggest games.
A?SC President Marty Foley was to pick up the blue Prize from UCLA at 9 this morning, and Orenthal James Simpson planned to set it ringing at LSC, for the first time since 1964, shortly after noon.
It will be only a matter of hours before the bell, which came to svmbolize college football’s greatest rivalry after USC Sig Eos first captured it from UCLA in 1939, is once again doused in the cardinal shades of Troy; but it will be many years before the Coliseum turf again supports the wild revelry that followed the Trojan victory.
It was with an almost-spontaneous motion that thousands of rooters carried their enthusiasm to the field.
The Trojan team had just begun turning toward the dressing rooms when it was overwhelmed by the student body, which quickly surrounded and mingled with them, jumping as high and shouting as loud over the Biggest \\ in.
O. .T. Simpson and Rikki Aldridge, carried on the shoulders of their teammates, were besieged by the fans as the circle of rooters continued to pulse outward.
Only when the team had finally made its way to the dressing room did the throngs, stopped at the tunnel entrance bv security police and viewed with amusement by nearly half of the 90,000 fans at the Coliseum, turn to the UCLA rooting section.
Just as quickly they began running down the track along the south-side stands, often stumbling in their madness as they moved past the rooting section, on grass strewn with toilet paper marking the Bruins’ earlier moments of hope, chanting in near disbelief, “We’re No. 1, We’re No. 1.”
As they reached the end of the track most of the ecstatic students turned back to the middle of the field, picking up crepe paper or tearing out the colored turf for souvenirs.
The Trojan Marching Band moved down the field and the crowds joined in, still jumping, still shouting, still blowing their minds as they once again ran on the field toward the tunnel.
Only when they were again stopped from passage did the majority of rooters slow down for the first time and begin the walk back across the field and up the stands to the city their team had just won.	•
Outside the Coliseum many joined again with the band in the traditional parade across Exposition Park and down University Avenue to Tommy Trojan.
At the Trojan Shrine, untarnished by Bruin blue for the first time in many years, Jordan placed his sweater on the symbolic statue as the still-frantic students erupted again in spontaneous cries of “We’re No. 1.” They were joined by Traveller II as the band played Conquest, and continued on their way to the dormitories or 28th Street.
Once on the Row. they turned to the house decorations, completed barely 24 hours earlier and now tossed into the streets for the expected bonfires.
The Greeks and other onlookers mingled there for a few minutes, standing and shouting around the closest fire and (Continued on Page 3)
Daily Trojan Photo by Ed Stapleton
TO THE VICTORS GO THE SPOILS And O. J. Simpson lets everyone know it
Two hopefuls to vie for freshman office tomorrow
The freshman class will end two months of inactivity and nonrepresentation tomorrow when they elect either Mike Chuck or Bill Saracino to serve as freshman representative on the ASSC Executive Council.
From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.. in two lines formed in front of Bovard Auditorium. the freshmen will present their student I.D.’s and cast their ballots.
The election will also include an open vote on a proposed amendment to the ASSC Constitution providing for the selection of four graduate representatives to the council.
Mike Chuck and Bill Saracino, candidates for freshman representative, wiU appear in an informal debate today at 2:30 p.m. in Birnkrant Dining Hall.
The debate is sponsored by Troeds, freshman women’s sei'vice organization. All students are icelcome to attend.
The winning candidate will serve as the university’s first freshman representative since the new constitution, which replaced the usual officer system with class representatives. It did not go into effect until last March.
Both Chuck and Saracino announced their intentions to coordin ate their activities through a class council, though neither has yet set up membership qualifications or duties.
Chuck, frnm Hacienda. Heights, has had experience as Student Council president and a member of the Eighty-Four School Executive Council.
“After having ex[>erienced student leadership in high school. I feel that what I learned should be applied to college life." he said.
Chuck is especially interested in promoting interest in student activities. and advocates more guest speakers and entertainment.
“While the Row will furnish most of the social life.” he explained, “wc should sponsor at least one big-name band dance.'’
Saracino, a political science major from Eagle Rock, was editor of his school newspaper, president of the Debate Club and a member of the Student Council.
“I’m running because I want to become more involved with USC," he said.
“I don't like the freshman stereotype of being a do-nothing group. We have the potential to contribute a great deal, and I would like to help bring out this potential."
Saracino would like to help dormitory residents by scheduling more weekend entertainment, and he feels freshmen should determine what type :>f social events they want.
He would also like to see freshman lockout hours changed to mid-night on weekdays and 3 a.m. on weekends, and has recommended a slightly - expanded Executive Council “to serve as a true liaison between students and their representatives.”
KICKS OFF CAMPAIGN
Heritage Hall receives $250,000
Heritage Hall, a $1,250,000 structure to house the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, received a $250,000 challenge gift Saturday from Mr. and Mrs. Ted W. Johnson of Flint-ridge.
The first major donors to the new building, the Johnsons told President Topping their pledge would be paid when matched by a similar amount from alumni and other donors.
Johnson, a retired senior vice-president of Security First National Bank, lived on West 34th Street across from the campus, during his childhood.
Heritage Hall, which will rise on a corner of what is now Bovard Field, will overlook the site of his former home.
It will be a three story building, including
two stories above ground and one sublevel. The upper two floors will house offices for coaches of all major sports and the director of athletics and his assistants. It will also have trophy rooms. The basement will include dressing and training rooms, therapy rooms, equipment rooms, medical facilities and a movie room.
Sept. 1, 1968 has been set as the target date for the structure’s groundbreaking.
A nationwide fund-raising campaign for the new building has been launched with Frank Gifford, CBS sports director in New York City and a 1951 All-American at USC, as chairman.
David X. Marks, Los Angeles insurance executive, is honorary chairman.
The cochairmen of the advanced gifts section, Trustee J. Robert Fluor and Montgomery
Fisher, will seek prospects among business and industry and alumni and friends of the university.
Francis Tappaan is chairman of the varsity section. He is a former All-American and former vice-president of the university.
Tappaan will be assisted by representatives from every sport represented at USC. who will canvass the lettermen since 1915 of their sports.
The campaign is also receiving help from nine campus athletic support groups: Cardinal and Gold. Trojan Club, Trojaneers, Football Alumni Club, Trojan Coaches Club, Spikers. Basketball Boosters, Howard Jones Awards Foundation, Trojan Shrine Club.
Heritage Hall is being designed by the architectural firm of Grillias, Savage, Alves and Lau in Santa Ana.