California at USC

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 30, 1927, page 81

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  TR0JANS’ SMASHING GAME BEATS BEARS LOS ANGELES, October % Line sma shing beat long punting here today, 13 to 0. when the Southern California Trojans took all the wonder out of 1928 foot ball wonder team from California. The crowd was estimated at $4,000 Rated at better than even odds, the Al stalwarts who came from Berkeley discovered that a boot under the ball, no matter how good. could not register on the scoreboard against hammering attack. Troy’s much touted interference showed at top speed and strength and time after time it ripped gaps in the Golden Bear line, while the South ern California defense also was steady and powerful enough TO stop the in yader. LON, Kaufman and j. Dougery were the stars for California but especially LON who carried the bat. tie on his shoulders, his passing hands and his punting shoes. Over the entire field however, loomed Morely Drury. skipper of the Southern California crew, who packed the ball 200 yards out of a total of 371 yards gained for his team. The two scores for Troy came i’m the second and fourth periods. Don Williams. who substitutes for Drury, scored the first touchdown, and Me- Caslin the second Drury kicked goal after the second touchdown. Drury put the ball Is yards from the goal posts in the drive for the first touchdown, carrying the ball in installments almost the length of the held. He gave place 10 Williams who rammed across the line with the ball. For the second touchdown, Williams .ook the ball at mid-feld and passed 10 McCaslin who took it over, Only two fumbes marked the con,e both charged to California. One was costly breaking up the Bears biggest threat. On this occasion Evans cropped the ball and it was recovered ny DrurN. Southern California drew a”ur @ penaitles for total of 40 Yards, ana California three for Is wards Lineup and summary.

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  Imperial Valley press, October 31, 1927, page 5

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  Trojans To Have Easy Two Weeks Los ANGELES, Oct. 81. - The Trojans of Southern California today prepared to coast for two weeks, well satisfied for the present with hard earned laurcls gained from California Saturday in a 13 to 0 victory, which was entirely contrary to football dope. 1t was strong, slashing Trojan backfield which operated against the Bears. Led by Captain Morley Drury and Don Williams, who returned from the injured list to cover himself with glory, Southern California produced a punch which now has followers clamoring for national hontrs. L. S. c. idle next Saturday and a week later plays Colorado, already twice beaten. Then comes Washing ton State and ON November 26 the Trojans travel to Chicago to play Notrc Dame and on December 3 Washington comes here for what may prove the deciding game of the Pacific Coast conference. Football interest in Los Angeles this coming weekend will center on the Stanford Washington clash in the hopes that the Huskics will win only to fall in their later meeting with the Troians.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Officially, USC leads 72–⁠32–⁠6; as played, 72–⁠31–⁠5 in the 108 games on file; the official count covers all 112 meetings, counting the 98 since this game.