Player Spotlight: Jim Hardy

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USC football player Jim Hardy was named most valuable player of the 1945 Rose Bowl, a 25-0 victory over Tennessee. In this photo, he is recovering from an injury while playing for the Chicago Cardinals in 1951, presumably against the Los Angeles Rams and holding a copy of the Los Angeles Examiner. Photo courtesy of USC digital library.

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  2. the LA Examiner was a precursor to the vaunted Herald Examiner….in fact i used to deliver these as a kid in L.A.

    Wolfman, you were born 15-20 yrs too late, but you would have fit in perfectly with the hard-boiled staff of grizzled sports writers of that day….Mud, Mel Durslag, Doug Krikorian, Bud Furillo.

    like you, wolfman, these gueys didn’t serve as stooge spokeman for all these overpaid self-important Coaches of today!! they said “it’s like THAT!” just like you, wolfman!!

    #RareBreed

    • Good reporters will investigate and ask questions relentlessly until they get an answer.

      Why do you love the Devil Charlie?

        • No. You may use your google skills and discover the meaning. See, it’s easy to answer a question.

          Why do you love the Devil?

      • He thinks he’s “Charlie Bucket” from the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

      • He even tried an alias on here named “Violet,” who is a character in the same movie. Geez. Who knows how many other aliases he has on here. I wouldn’t doubt he’s also UCLA owns, ThaiMex, and many more.

        • That is very sad and unfortunate. I believe he has some underlying emotional disturbances. Perhaps multiple personality disorder due to some insecurity that went unresolved from childhood. Hence, the Charlies Bucket profile.

          Unfortunate really. I will be here to help him…when he’s ready.

        • he is definitely ThaiBeaner, Yoda, and Count plus violet. Talk about a misspent life…

          • Maybe he is Trojan fan 3.0, Rey Rey, Juan and Helen too. Seems like they carry on the non-sense together…the Trojan honks are responsible for the dumb shenanigan as much as the “troll” that they point too!

    • Why do you love the Devil Charlie? Why did you say that? Don’t avoid the question? Why do you love the Devil?

    • Bucket,

      I suppose we have more in common than I thought. I too delivered The Herald Examiner as a youngster. It wasn’t too popular though because I would have to ride my bike all over town to deliver about 25 papers. I soon quit and started delivering The Daily Breeze and could deliver about 60 papers in just three blocks.
      Also, when we would go out and try to hustle up new subscribers for The Examiner we were sometimes rudely turned away by resentful residents proclaiming they would never read a Hearst newspaper.

      I do agree that it was a great sports section right up until the end.

          • Were you plagued by Satanists when you were in daycare?

            OMG, did Bucket work at your daycare?!

          • I did not attend the infamous preschool. Many classmates did but I am of an age that those contemporaries of mine who did attend did so before any of the allegations were made. The place actually once had a sterling reputation.
            I’m not aware of Bucket having any connection to that place either but he has been known to use many different names.

          • When I was in law school (my UCLA days), the lead prosecutor from the McMartin trial came to speak at one of my classes. I forget her name; Mercedes Ruehl played her in that HBO movie. She remains absolutely convinced that many of the allegations were true, and she blames the MB police department for botching the investigation. She also said something about how a witness had dug up unknown objects from the preschool property, but he killed himself before they could interview him. Interesting stuff, but who knows what really happened; the whole thing was mishandled so badly.

          • As I said, McMartin Preschool once had a great reputation and was around for decades before any claims were ever made. It was family run and I believe was deserving of its reputation. Someone I know who attended jokes that the most traumatic thing he ever witnessed there was when a girl hit his buddy over the head with a frying pan they played with in the sandbox.
            I think it is possible that Ray Buckey may have been guilty of some of the allegations. But some accusations were so incredible that it is incomprehensible to believe the founders of this respected school had changed course so radically or were even capable of doing such things.
            About the only thing most people can agree on is that it was mishandled from the start.

  3. Little Jimmy Hardy 1945 RB MVP is a stinking insult to 1945 US soldiers in Europe and the South Pacific dodging bullets and dying.

    FJHTPOSC.

    Little Jimmy won Clown U awards because US soldiers allow him that option but wasn’t worth fighting for himself. Coward U tradition.

    • Wow. This is a new low, even for you. Do you have ANYTHING going in your life? Or is just posting and trollling on this board what you live for? Go away little person, hell……DON’T EVEN GO AWAY MAD. JUST GO AWAY.

    • Thanks for you keep coming back every single day (you didn’t even miss Christmas) so we can all laugh at what a total axxhole you are. You just blather on fool, “smell this”!

  4. I was curious why this kid did not serve in WWII when 10 million men were conscripted or volunteered. All I turned up was Student Deferments, but nothing more. I did note that Hardy did serve, but only after the war had ended.

    • What a patriot, Hardy plays FB, but can’t pull a trigger in defense of his country.

      • So your reasoning would also apply to anybody playing for UCLA at that time, right?

        • JG I believe it would. However, UCLA isn’t celebrating penny ante war years FB wins like Coward U has.

          How do you explain JG, John “Duke” Wayne’s War record – none except in cheap war films. Not quite in the same league of Ronnie “Ace” Reagan’s toy Zero aerial battle films, but oh so close.

          What really kills me is The Duke and Lee Marvin were in many films together, and somehow, Wayne seems to always win their fights, even though Marvin, a blooded Marine Grunt, actually killed the enemy in realcombat.

          Coward U. LOL

          • What’s with the “JG”? I thought I was Jetskid.
            I see how hard you try here but you only ever end up being a complete embarrassment to your cause.

          • Ok JG whatever you say. I think it’s safe to say JG, I would rather fight 10,000 JG’s with one musket, than fight one musket with 10,000 JG’s. Your head shape perfectly for a new white hood.

      • What the f is your problem? Why don’t you go post on UCLA blogs? You have SERIOUS problems.

        • He incessantly posts inflammatory, uneducated remarks on this blog purely and simply to get a rise out of loyal, die-hard USC fans, such as yourself……ask yourself this question: “Is responding to trolls like him really worth it?”

        • You know, Charlie is an interesting poster, and he has a sense of humor and is actually fun to post with. You, on the other hand is just a complete IDIOT.

      • Do you think TRUE UCLA fans really like the way you represent them? I respect the Bruins, when they respect the Trojans.

      • You see little piece of garbage? I’m posting under my real name, I’m not hiding like you.

      • Hey stupid, do you know anything? I know the answer to that. Did you ever think, that is a novelty for a ruin, that maybe his draft card was not pulled up till after the war and then he served when it was? I am sure as a Trojan, he would have served when his number was called, unlike the yellow bellys from ugly who ran away. There are reasons like maybe the war was over when his number was pulled? You are so stupid. Do us a favor and stop writing on this blog.

        • What yellow bellies are you referring too.

          What was more important Little Jimmy White Feather’s Draft Notice, or the defeat of G and J.

          Every dead or wounded WWII Allied soldier deserves the right to spit on Hardy’s grave.

    • I was trying to find that info online yesterday too. All I could find was a reference to Hardy getting to do “officer training school” while at USC playing football. It sounds like maybe strings were pulled to some degree, but at the time, it’s not like everyone knew that the war against Japan was going to come to a sudden end due to a secret wonder-weapon. He probably figured he would go to the Pacific in the near future. At least, that’s my best guess.

      • Many drafted soldiers who died fighting in WWII didn’t have the option to unilaterally rationalize the reason they postponed their duty to defend their country like the coward Jim Hardy.

        Dupree naively hints that “some strings were pulled.” were pulled for Hardy. Hardy’s cowardice is undeniable yet SUCCdumb anoints Little Jimmy white feather a FB hero.

        There were no strings to pull for the US Nisei soldiers, with parents in penned up in KZ camps, to to fight and serve their racist country.

        JIm Hardy makes me want to puke.

        • Since you asked so nicely, here is a web address for something I found through Google, an old Fresno Bee article with a reference to Jim Hardy being in ROTC at USC…

          http://www.newspapers[dot]com/newspage/25914184/

          Thousands of officer candidates went through such programs during WWII. Guess you’ll be doing a lot of puking.

          • ROTC, LOL. The white bread deferment. Playing ROTC FB, while Allied soldier’s are dying stinks of yellow courage.

          • Too bad you weren’t around back then to tell the military how to structure their training programs.

        • Don’t worry “Owns”… puking is a common side-effect for someone who is ill. Puke On!

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