USC Morning Buzz: Can Forgotten Tradition Be Resurrected?

George Tirebiter, the dog mascot of USC, had its footprints saved in cement. (Contributed photo)

In today’s paper, I wrote about a wonderful USC tradition that is largely forgotten. For about 15 years starting in the late 1940’s, every USC All-American made his footprints in cement. That’s Frank Gifford below. And even George Tirebiter above!

What happened to the cement footprints? Are any available to view? And will they ever all be displayed on campus? Read the full story here

30 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Can Forgotten Tradition Be Resurrected?

  1. if they had continued this tradition, and if they were laid out side by side, all these foot prints would go to ugly and back because of so many All Americans in the sports played at USC. The tradition at ugly for being an All American is that you become a pizza delivery supervisor.

        • Oh come on now lover of ‘Mao’….if you don’t hurry you’ll miss the genocide of the Kuomingtang, Hmong, Hungarians and Kampucheans…but hey you a lover of ‘Che’ (that p%t& b@st@rd and his ‘beret’)….you go lover of Korda…

          I’ll bet some hillarian’s s(@nk dawg aka ‘la pasionaria’ has you on her il/elle leash…bark dawg…come on now fool…give us your ‘wooden’ yell…”Where’s Nellie???!!!”

          • I see. I have been following USC football since 1963, and my father played on the team in the 1940s. This is a sports site. Take your political shyte elsewhere, asswipe.

          • Hey whatever floats your boat i.e. what else is in your bio save what you’ve given?

            BTW it’s always a ‘trip wire’ when one responds so viscerally to a simple retort as you have…might want to lower the toilet mouth too buckaroo.

    • My pizza delivery guy always sports a ruin t-shirt. Thanks for filling us in with the connection

  2. ugh! what is this? cmon, lets get back to talking abuot sports so we can get exsited abuot peeple we dont no and than get angry at them and make fun of other peeple who fale, smdh!

  3. Cody Kessler, the preseason #1 QB for the Cleveland Browns iis now the third string QB.

    Unfortunely for Kessler, practice doesn’t make perfect. Some things never change.

  4. Wolf,
    This was the best piece I think I have ever seen you write. I enjoyed it, and it was pretty positive. More work like this please.
    pb4sc

  5. It might be better to put Heisman footprints, but I like the idea. Don’t they already put All American names on a wall? Also the prints I have seen are cleats (I really hated those tap dance shoes) They don’t tell us much about the person other than spiked shoes. (not Nike)

  6. Wouldn’t it be nice if SC would go to the pound for a dog to bring back the George Tirebiter tradition ? Think of the positive publicity, beats the med school dean pub for sure.

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