{"id":8783,"date":"2017-11-14T14:28:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8783"},"modified":"2017-11-21T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:33:16","slug":"crazy-college-kids-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/14\/crazy-college-kids-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy College Kids From The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The LA Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

In an era of USC-UCLA pranks, one stood out. Sixty years later, its mystery is solved<\/h1>\n

by Zach Helfand<\/p>\n

\"USCFrom left to right: Dave Visel, Mike Loshin, Wally Karabian, Jerry VanWert and Steve Marienhoff. (Photo courtesy of Maria Aparicio)<\/em><\/p>\n

A septuagenarian professor and former USC<\/a> student, having caught wind of a forthcoming story in the Los Angeles Times, recently sent a cryptic email to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

Sixty years ago, the professor, Dayle Barnes, belonged to an organization at USC called the Trojan Squires, which pulled off one of the most memorable in a long line of pranks in USC\u2019s rivalry with UCLA<\/a>. For the game at the Coliseum in 1957, UCLA\u2019s student section had planned a series of card stunts. The UCLA students were to hold up placards that would combine to form Bruins-friendly words and pictures.<\/p>\n

Except when the students actually did hold up their cards, they had been altered by a band of USC saboteurs. In each stunt, the unwitting UCLA students revealed a different pro-USC message. It caused such a stir that Sports Illustrated wrote about the prank \u2014 without interviewing its creators.<\/p>\n

Barnes wrote in the email that reporting about the prank\u2019s creators would be a \u201ctough assignment\u201d given \u201cthe complete secrecy with which the clandestine group of Trojan Squires\u201d operated.<\/p>\n

He explained that though he was part of the Squires, the prank was conceived and executed by a small, elite unit within the organization, operating under deep cover. Barnes didn\u2019t know their identities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is not to deny, however, that more than a few of that year\u2019s membership were eminently qualified, by background and personality, successfully to conduct a covert assignment,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

The mystery endured among the dwindling population of USC and UCLA alumni who keep score of such pranks. There would be no answer for 60 years.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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