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When was the last night game in the USC-UCLA series? (Kickoff 5 p.m. or later).
UPDATED: The last night game took place in 1977 at the Coliseum.
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When was the last night game in the USC-UCLA series? (Kickoff 5 p.m. or later).
UPDATED: The last night game took place in 1977 at the Coliseum.
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Scott, are you asking that we help do your research for you???
2000 @ The Rose Bowl, USC won
1991
The 1977 game (Frank Jordan, winning field goal) started right at or just after 5:00 although the 1992, John Barnes game started shortly before 5 with a 4:30-4:45 kickoff for ESPN. For good measure, a few others in the early to mid 90's were at 3:30. For extra good measure, the 1977 game is the last time we played the bruins on Thanksgiving weekend. At present, next years game is scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend (11-24).
1977
2000 and in a shoot-out at the RB where Carson as a Soph. started his total dominance over UCLA.
And that back-up kicker, David Bell?, kicks a low knuckle ball field goal to win it 38-35 I believe.
Crazy Paul Hackett's last hurrah.
2000 - The David Bell field goal game. Bruins scored first on a fraulent safety call.
Game was also delayed on television because of Kings or Ducks hockey. (Imagine that happening now. There would be a riot.)
1992...Maybe J.J. Stokes can offer official confirmation.
1992
NOVEMBER 17, 2001:
USC 27
UCLA 0
It was 1857. Los Angeles was still mostly redwood forest, and USC and UCLA had only club teams. The two captains chose the starting time, forgetting that no one had invented the light bulb yet. Players wore candles on their heads, forgetting that no one had invented the helmet yet. Ouch! Talk about your low admissions standards. Anyway, it’s believed USC won the game, when a player named Kump blindly stumbled into the USC quarterback, and knocked him into the end zone. It became known as the Kump … um, er, I don’t know, but USC won.
1977
Excellent comment by td4troy, on the 2000 game, which essentially was played at night, but was technically not a night game under the classification rules (after 5 pm) used to separate day from night in the media guide list of SC games.
It seems strange that a game played mostly at night in late November is considered a day game if it starts at 4:45, while a game played mostly in daylight on Labor Day in September is considered a night game if it starts at 5:15. But I guess the line has to be drawn somewhere.
By the way, did anyone notice that the Cal game a couple of weeks ago was the first night game (game start after 5 PM local time) in the entire SC/Cal series?