USC Picture Of The Day

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Many consider the 1972 USC team to be the best all-time college football team. They were the first team to be named No. 1 on every ballot of the coaches’ and media polls. And Sports Illustrated has this photo from its portrait gallery.

(clockwise from bottom) Pete Adams (77), Charles Young (89), Lynn Swann (22), Mike Rae (6), Sam Cunningham (39), Anthony Davis (28), Booker Brown (63), Mike Ryan (68), Edesel Garrison (19), Dave Brown (57), and Allan Graf (61).

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21 thoughts on “USC Picture Of The Day

  1. November 18at #14 UCLA#1Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA (Battle for the Victory Bell)W 24–7 82,929

    • No little gutty football team has ever even managed to win 11 games, wimps that you are. Will you ever win the conference championship? Will Klemm ever stop cheating and recruiting at the same time?

      • Didn’t Klemm’s actions result in the coining of a new term? What he does is called “cheatcruiting”…

        • Kraps it doesn’t have the same sizzle as the “Rescue Yarn.”

    • Has it ever occurred to you that your beloved Wolfman is the one who is living in the past?… he is the one who is loudly bemoaning any change or loss of tradition…….

    • This team is from the same time of UCLA’s big basketball era and USC football has had more success since then.

      Yesterday U? Hmmm

    • Charlie Charlie Charlie. I’m starting to get used to you. This yesterday u stuff. Come on man really. What about Westwoods football program. It’s really not even a has been, it’s a never was program. You don’t have to like us. But show some respect.

  2. Funny, that picture is in the form of a 0, which equals SC’s wins against UCLA in football and basketball this year!

  3. The USC Trojan Football Program was fantastic from 1965 t0 1969. O.J. and Adrian Young decimating a great Notre Dame team in South Bend, 34 to 7, in the fall of 1967 before winning the NCAA National Championship. USC had the opportunity to play two QUALITY Football Teams; the Gary Beban led UCLA Bruins in 1965 and Woody Hayes greatest Ohio State team in the 1969 Rose Bowl Game. Did USC go undefeated during the 4 years ? Of course not, But the competitive prowess of those by gone years far exceeded the level of play we see today. Head Coaches and their staff stayed together, some for more than a decade. And, by golly. no player left “early” i.e. USC WR Mike Williams, Lendale White, and on and on………..

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