[Austroturf]

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I don’t like both teams. The Domers are entitled. The Trojans are back to being bullies.
But my favorite actor is John Wayne and my dad told me he was great to work with.

I wonder how fond Wayne was of USC. He had done well at Glendale high school, like Reagan was student body president and Wayne originally applied to the Naval Academy but Navy turned him down. USC gave him one of seven allotted scholarships of $280, plus one meal per day if he was on the regular squad -- during the week, on the weekends he was on his own. He dislocated his shoulder surfing three weeks before his junior year football practice started (surfing wasn't allowed at Balboa Bay at that time of day because the waves were so rough), and Howard Jones both demoted him to the bench and Wayne lost his scholarship and owed his fraternity so much money that he was forced to drop out of USC.

Nice story.  I was unaware of Wayne's history with the USC program.

[Austroturf]

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I don’t like both teams. The Domers are entitled. The Trojans are back to being bullies.
But my favorite actor is John Wayne and my dad told me he was great to work with.

I wonder how fond Wayne was of USC. He had done well at Glendale high school, like Reagan was student body president and Wayne originally applied to the Naval Academy but Navy turned him down. USC gave him one of seven allotted scholarships of $280, plus one meal per day if he was on the regular squad -- during the week, on the weekends he was on his own. He dislocated his shoulder surfing three weeks before his junior year football practice started (surfing wasn't allowed at Balboa Bay at that time of day because the waves were so rough), and Howard Jones both demoted him to the bench and Wayne lost his scholarship and owed his fraternity so much money that he was forced to drop out of USC.

Nice story.  I was unaware of Wayne's history with the USC program.