Tennessee vs. USC

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  The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., January 2, 1945, page 3

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  $4,000 FANS SEE ROSE TOURNAMENT Southern California Wins Over Tennessee With Sheer Weight Southern CALIFORNIA; Trojans the latest in a long line of grea and powerful football teams, wor their eighth straight Rose Bow game today. defeating green Tennessee eleven by sheer weight Of superior manpower, % to 0 be fore $4,000 football fans. The odd-makers who rated Ten. nessee a 10 point underdog woi, their bets with something to spare but there was no gauge for the valor which kept the Volunteers fighting to the final gun despite a smashing setback only four plays after the kickoff. Jim Callahan, the Trojans’ great end, blocked Bus Stephens punt before the game was fairly under way, snatched it up on the II. yard line. and drove over for the first touchdown of the day. But the fans who figured this was to keynote the game came up or the edge of their seats as Tennes see dug in and fought back. The Trojans scored again in the second period when their captain Jim Hardy tossed 22-yard pass to Paul Salata, waiting with out stretched arms in the end zone Then, when it really didn’t mat ter and sheer WEAKNESS had over come the valiant Volunteers in the fourth period the Trojans drove indomitably for two more scores A sensational 73-yard drive ir 10 plays took Southern California from Tennessee’s 27-yard line to { touchdown as the fourth perioe opened, and then the Trojans cap ped the period with a final drive that carried over the goal as the gun sounded to end the game. Stephens, the ‘heart” of the Ten nessee team carried the hod al afternoon and was out OF the game for only three plays. His great 32-yard run in the first period brought the stands te their feet as he stitched and wove through half the Trojan team and made it to the Trojan 40. Two sets of downs later, Ste phens whipped a long pass to AL len Law, substitute halfback, from the Tennessee 40 to the Trojan 49,, but saw it called back on an offside penalty. The crowd saw the best punting exhibition of the year, with Hardy dropping one out on the Tennessee five yard line, another on the eight, and another on the seven. Casey Stephens booted the Tennesseeans out of the hole four times during the afternoon, slanting one out on the Trojan five and drop ping the rest of them close. Southern California had one great play up its sleeve but useo it without scoring. Snatching punt on his own 13-yard line, Har dy lateraled all the way across the field to Don Burnside, who dartec back to the Trojan 48. Tennessee lost yard on the kick and re turn. Southern California’s big drive in the fourth period payed of when Hardy lugged the ball ovel from the 11-yard line on an old time end around play and Pa West made the only conversion of the day. Driving for one first down aftel another from midfield, and finally laying the ball on the one-foo line, where a ground play failee to gain, the Trojans made theil final score when Hardy heaved { short flat pass to Doug MacLach Ian. The ball was in the air a: the gun went off. Southern California outclasseo the southeastern champs in thu statistics, making Is first down: to eight. and keeping the Volun teers back into their own terri tory most of the day. The Trojans missed another chance to score as the first hal ended, when they were on the Vol unteers’ seven-yard line and heav ing passes. One, from Hardy tt Salata, was completed outside the end zone and discounted, and an other was incomplete as the hal ended.

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  Imperial Valley press, January 2, 1945, page 4

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  Trojons Trounce Vols rs to O PASADENA, Calf, Jan. 2. CUP)- The Southern California Trojans held two Rose Bowl victories over Tennessee Tuesday after whipping the Volunteers 25 to 0 before a crowd of $4,000 fans in Mondays classic. 1t was the second time that the Vols suffered a shutout at the hands of the Trojans-they were beaten IA to in 1940-but they proved they were a fighting outfit from the first touchdown until the final gun. Even Coach Jeff Cravath of Southern California was quick to say so. “All Tennessee needed was experience,” he said. They were well coached and drilled. We looked worse during the first half than I’ve ever seen us look” FOUGHT LIKE FIEND Bus Stephens, the Knoxville fresh man, fought like fiend. He cculdn carry his team to victory alone but he made all the things the southern sportswriters said about him come true. He lugged the ball Is times and averaged just notch short Of six yards a try against one of the country’s heaviest lines and cagiest backfields. He missed only three plays during the entire game in Cne quick trip to the bench. 1t was Stephens kick, the first of the day, that Jim Callahan blocked and scooped up to make it 6 to O, but Stephens came back a couple of minutes later with a 32yard run from the shadow OF his own goal posts to put the ball in midfield. Then he heaved a long pass to Allen Law, substitute half back. on the Trojan 10, but an Off side penalty called it back. Like the first, Troy’s final touch down was a thriller, with the ball still in the air en- route from Cap tain Jim Hardy to young MacLach- Ian over the goal line as the gun went off. A 22-yard toss from Hardy to end Paul Salata in the end zone gave the Trojans their second tally TROJAN HERO Hardy was the Trojan hero. After a sleepless night with a stomach ailment and a fever of 101, the triple-threat quarterback sparked his team all afternoon, flipping passes that caught Tennessee flat footed, slanting three punts out of bounds beyond the Volunteer 10 yard line, making one touchdown himself, and completing two pay eff passes for his 10th of the season and new Southern California rec ord It broke by one the mark Rus

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  The Daily Alaska empire, January 2, 1945, page 3

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  91.oo0 SEE. TR0jANS WIN 25-O VICTORY PASADENA, Jan. - Southern California’s Troians whipped the fighting but outclassed band oi Tennessee Volunteers in the Rose Bowl game with a score of 25–⁠0 before a crowd of 91,000 In the thirtieth Far-Western grid classic, the Westerners extended their unbroken string of post season victories to eight despite makeshift backfield which some times missed signals on attack and muddled defensive assignments. As ever, the Trojans capitalized their scoring opportunities. When the chips were down, Quarterback Jim Hardy came through with two perfect touchdown pitches through the air. He once crossed up the Southerners by running across the goal on hidden-ball play. The boys from the south had their best on the Pasadena green sward, one Buster stephen, and &C., corded him some trips by blocking. He was very hard to handle, al most getting away to touchdowns on two occasions.

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USC leads 4–⁠0 in four meetings, counting the two since this game.