Why Do So Many CC Posters Dislike USC?

SC_Anteater
Sat, 26 May 2018 21:06:29 +0000

@gyrase777 Why Trojans? Here you go:

"The famed moniker was first seen in the Los Angeles Times when sports writer Owen Bird wrote a column previewing a track meet between USC and Occidental College.

“The Oxy Tiger will be seen in action for the first time this season, in the clash with Dean Cromwell’s USC Trojans on the Bovard cinder trail,” Bird said in his column.

In 1912 USC student-athletes ceased to be called the Methodists, Wesleyans and Cardinals.

When asked decades later why he chose the name “Trojans,” Bird said that USC athletes “were facing teams that were bigger and better-equipped, yet they had splendid fighting spirit. The name Trojans fitted them.”"