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...John McKay, head football coach of the University of Southern California, the trip north to play his alma mater, the University of Oregon, might have been a sentimental journey. One look at the playing conditions was enough to dampen any thought of old school ties. A driving rain had turned the artificial turf into one big slippery sponge. The game, which was supposed to have been a romp for the Trojans, turned into a tossup. After 30 minutes of fumbles and false starts, neither team had scored, and U.S.C. sloshed into the locker room at half time for the Trojan...
Explosive I. At Oregon, McKay was a flashy halfback who helped lead his team into the 1949 Cotton Bowl. After graduation he decided that he would not play as a pro and took a $2,800-a-year job as assistant coach at his alma mater. In 1959 he joined the U.S.C. staff. One year later he was named head coach. After two losing seasons, he silenced the protests of U.S.C.'s rabid alumni by sweeping both the 1962 national championship and Coach-of-the-Year honors. The first coach to popularize the explosive I formation, McKay...
...field. "Wow!" Trevor thought. "This is just like halftime on TV." The neighboring observers didn't share Trevor's enthusiasm. "Bush league--get these jerks off!" they shouted as the band dog-trotted through its geometry. The Big Red swelled into a moving rendition of the Cornell alma mater. "Nice," thought Trevor. "Yeecch!" coughed someone behind him, spitting Tawny Port down the back of Trevor's neck...
CRIMSON-COLUMBIA SPECTATOR -- The main quadrangle of Columbia's campus. South Field has suffered through many recent historical events. It was the setting for the first building take-over by SDS. It is the vista gazed upon-by the status of Columbia's Alma Mater which was dynamited in 1969. It was the escape route for the first unhappy undergraduate to ever cut through University red tape by shooting the Assistant Dean of Students. And it was the scene of the first Sha-Na-Na Concert. Today it will assume another niche in history, when it provides the playing...
While on the subject of our collective alma mater, we asked Richardson what his personal opinion was on one-to-one admissions for Harvard...