11/5/1938 USC University Southern California Trojans Cal Bears Ticket Stub 13-7

Description: You are looking at a ticket stub for 1938 Pacific Coast Conference game between the University of Southern California Trojans and the University of California at Berkeley Bears which took place on November 5, 1936 at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Aside of what occurred during the game, this ticket is what happens when you let a bank note printer create your tickets. Not only would the ticket style thwart counterfeiters, but the aesthetic result is visually amazing. Note - the reverse which normally shows a map of the stadium is mostly blank as this ticket was mounted in a scrapbook and removed resulting in paper loss. The loss is only on the reverse and does not disturb the portion you should be looking at, the front. Cal hadn't lost a game in the previous 18 - reaching back two years - were the defending Rose Bowl champs, and ranked No. 3 overall nationally. On the road, Cal was favored over the No. 13 USC Trojans. The Trojans thoroughly outplayed the Bears ending their winning streak. Here is an account of the game from a northern California paper the following day: "Note this day of November 5 on your calendar. It is one that will long be remembered by football fans from one side of the United states to the other. It saw a University of California team - undefeated in more than two and a half years of play – humbled and humiliated by Southern California by a score of 13 to 7. It saw Pittsburgh in the East, with even a longer victory string tossed for a loss by Carnegie Tech. It saw Northwestern, apparently headed for a Big Ten title, wiped off the slate bv Wisconsin. In other words, gridiron champions from one end of the country were a dime a dozen today. Now please refer to the second paragraph. I want particularly to stress the fact that the Bears were HUMBLED today - and by a team that came from nowhere to reach a peak that was close to perfection. TEAMS MILES APART A throng of 95,000 spectators, a new record football crowd for the Los Angeles Coliseum, saw the Trojans snap California's long winning streak. Never was a football score less indicative of the relative merits of two teams than was today's. The big board at the east end of the stadium still shows the figures - U.S.C. 13, California 7. In reality the teams were miles apart today in playing ability. Don't take my word for it. Look at the figures, and in this case the figures are not lying: 1. U.S.C. made a net total from running plays of 220 yards. California made 16. 2. U.S.C. made a net yardage from passes of 158. The Bears made 52. 3. The Trojans made 15 first downs from running plays. The Bears made exactly one. 4. Troy gathered six first downs through the air. California made one. 5. U.S.C. attempted 25 forward passes and completed the unbelievable total of 13. The Bears heaved a total of nine passes and completed three. Nothing could tell the story plainer figures than that. JONES SAVED FOR WEEK A reliable local newspaper man told me today that it would have been the ax right on the neck for Coach Howard Jones if he had lost today’s battle. Well, if that's true, Howard is safe for another week. Now they tell me he will have to reach the Rose Bowl to hold his job. A gigantic kid by the name of Harry Smith was the man that made the Trojans go today. Not since Aaron Rosenberg was smothering opposing players back in 1932 has U.S.C. had a running guard worthy of the name. Today they had one and Smith was the name. He ripped holed in the center of the Bear line that the backfield men slid through for yard after yard and no shift that Stub Allison could make in his guards could stop Smith. The Bears started slowly, but that did not surprise us. We have seen them do that several times this season. Wait until after the first quarter, we said to ourself. Well, we not only waited until after the first quarter, but we waited until the ball game had only five minutes to go before California flashed anything. Then, on a beautiful pass play, they made their only touchdown. GREAT GOAL LINE STANDSBefore going into the scoring efforts, let me put in just a word for the courageous goal line stands made by California. Three times in the first half they were shoved almost into their own end zones. Twice the Trojans got the ball within a foot of the payoff stripe, and another time within 7 yards, and thrice an inspired last-ditch defense repulsed them. But this couldn’t go on for ever. It was inevitable that the heavier and better Trojan line eventually would wear California down, and this point was reached in the third quarter. We’ll take that up right now: The Bears had just made another grand goal line stand to take the ball from the Trojans just 12 inches from a touchdown. Louie Smith stepped 10 yards into the end zone and got away a beautiful money kick that sailed to the 50 yard line, where Granny Lansdell gathered it in. It was a 60-yard boot, but in could not quell that Trojan uprising. YARDS, YARDS, YARDSBill Sangster hit left guard for 4. Lansdell sliced inside left tackle for a first down on the Bears’ 28. Jimmy Jones went around right end for 6 on a reverse. Then it was Sangster around left end for another first down on the Bear 15. Behind tremendous five-man interference, Jones went around right end to the six. Here Allison made three changes, but they did not stop the inspired Trojans. Morley Mathewson went in at right end. Vic Bottari, who had been slightly hurt when he stopped the final play of the previous drive, returned to the game succeeding Tony Firpo. Bill Plasch went in at left tackle for Jim McDaniel. So with the replacements in position, Lansdell skirted left end for a touchdown, galloping the six yards with very little California resistance. Algelo Reginato got his hands on him on the five-yard line, but the elusive Lansdell wiggled off the hook and went over. Phil Gaspar donned his trick rubber toe and made the conversion. The Trojans were leading 7-0. BEAR ROOTERS SUBDUEDThe third quarter ended with the score standing at that figure, and even the most optimistic of the Bear rooters in the 95,000 crowd could not generate much steam. The score was close, but the game wasn’t, and the crown from the North could see little of the silvber lining that is presumed to cloak all clouds. The second U.S.C. touchdown came the hard way – the way we were accustomed to seeing the Bears make‘em. It took 13 plays for the Trojans to travel from 50 yards to pay dirt. The scoring setup came when Louie Smith kicked to midfield from his own 13. Oliver Day, who had succeeded Lansdell in the backfield, hit right tackle for seven. Jack Banta, sophomore fullback, made it a first down on the Cal 36. Banta – a driving, slashing back – smashed right guard for five. Perk Stone was sent in to replace Dennis Scott at tackle, and the Bears were penalized five for too many times out. Banta then made the remaining distance for a first down on the Bear 24 by a smash at center. PENALTY DELAYS ATTACKThen Banta again – twice, first at left guard for three and then at right guard for two. The Bears got a break when the Trojans were penalized 15 yards for holding, but it was simply delaying the score. L. Kreuger worked the end-around to go to Cal’s 15, where he was stopped by Louie Smith. Then it was Banta again at right guard, going to the Bear 11. Kreuger worked the same end-around to make six and wind up on the five-yard stripe. Dave DeVarona – who again played a whale of a game – went back in to replace Stone at tackle. Day smashed the right guard to the Bear two. Banta crushed into center, but the game Bears were putting up another gallant stand and stopped him half a yard from a touchdown. The Trojans were inches from a first down, and Day hit right guard to make the necessary inches for a first down on the Cal one-foot line. It was the fourth time of the day that the Bears were forced to defend that last important foot of turf. This time they couldn’t do it, and Banta dived over the center of the line for the score. GOAL KICK BLOCKEDAgain, Gaspar and his square rubber toe tried the placement, but Mathewson crashed through to block the kick. The score was: U.S.C. 13, California 0. With the clock nearing the finish mark, Dave Anderson took the Trojan kickoff on his own 10 and ran it back to the 34. Now we have California on its way to its only touchdown. Let’s take it up in detail. Bottari passed to Reginato on the California 41. Anderson hit center for two. Anderson again smacked center, and it looked as if the Bears had made their FIRST first down of the day. It was so close that the officials got out their yard-stick, and it developed that it was a first down – by inched. At this point the Trojans had made 10 first downs to the Bears’ one. Six minuted remained. Bottari tried to pass to Bud Winterbottom, but it didn’t jell. John Thomassin, the 200-pound tackle, crashed through the tired California line to rush Bottari and spoil another pass. BOTTARI’S PASSES CLICKNot one whit dismayed, Bottari heaved another, and this one clicked. Reginato gathering it in on the U.S.C. 42. Bottari slid through right tackle for four. Bottari placed another pass right in Reginato’s arms, but Angelo dropped it. Which brings us to the California touchdown. Bottari faded and had to fade deep, as he was not getting his usual protection. Mathewson went deep in U.S.C. territory, getting behind the last defensive man, and Bottari laid the apple in his arms on the Trojan 10. There was no one in the was, and Morley galloped on for the score. In a desperate attempt to hang on to the ball, Bottari tried an onside kick, but the alert Harry Smith gathered in the ball on the U.S.C. 40 and returned it to the Bears 47. The Trojans tried six plays and on the seventh they were forced to kick, the ball going into the end zone. 60 SECONDS TO PLAYThere was just 60 seconds remaining – ample for the Bears to win if Bottari could get his passes working. But it wasn’t in the cards. Vic’s first heave went into the arms of Lansdell, who ran back five yards to the Bear 35. There was just time for one more play, which saw Banta cracking right guard for two yards when the final gun was sounded. There is just one analysis of this situation. Howard Jones – or somebody – has finally developed a good ball club here – fast, tricky and with lots of beef and power. They may be hard to stop, although local newspapermen tell me they fear the coming battle with Washington more than they did today’s affair. California – with a comparatively light line – has been playing teams week after week with forwards that outweighed them 20 pounds per man. It was inevitable that this continual pounding would eventually take its toll and that some day they would bump into a good, big team that would crush them. Today was the day, and the Trojans were the team. BUT NOT OUTGAMEDI offer this, not in excuse for the Bears, for they need none. They have complied a glorious victory record and can now start in piling up another one. I would not attempt an alibi, as it would be taking much deserved credit from a U.S.C. team that looked great today. The Trojans dominated every minute of the game except for California’s one touchdown spurt and deserved to win. That their victory was not by a four touchdown margin, instead of one, is a tribute to the gallantry of the California team that refused to lie down and be licked in the first half. They were outmanned, outpowered and outplayed – but not outgunned." Please take a look at the scans for condition. I have been a long time ticket collector and will be posting many additional tickets in the coming weeks. The item you see pictured is the actual item you will receive. Feel free to email me with any questions. I will ship for free anywhere in the United States.

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