Fight On!: The Colorful Story of USC Football
Steve Bisheff and Loel Schrader
In recent years the University of Southern California football team has set records, enjoyed winning streaks, won national championships, and produced Heisman trophy winners at a dizzying pace. For USC fans, it has been a wonderful return to the school's longtime glory.
To help fans appreciate the story and its significance, Steve Bisheff and Loel Schrader, who between themselves have a combined eighty years of covering USC football, have written Fight On! The Colorful Story of USC Football. Here is the definitive story on how the Trojans once dominated college football and are doing so once again. Here also are the glittering history, rich tradition, and remarkable athletes who have marked the USC football program throughout the years.
Coaching legends like Howard Jones, who produced "The Thundering Herd," and John McKay, whose innovations changed the face of college football and introduced us to a long line of Heisman Trophy-winning tailbacks, are examined in depth. The real stories behind the great USC-Notre Dame intersectional rivalry and the number-one crosstown rivalry in the sport, USC vs. UCLA, are told alongside stories of Hollywood's amazing involvement with the program.
All of USC's seven Heisman trophy winners are profiled, from Mike Garrett to Reggie Bush, providing readers with rare insights into these special players. And the story of how Pete Carroll turned the Trojans into a full-fledged collegiate dynasty begins with him as a teenager growing up in northern California to his present status as the most successful coach in America.
Also listed are the ten best games and the fifty greatest players in USC history, providing every Trojan fan with something to argue about. Clearly, Fight On! is the definitive book on USC football.
| LOEL SCHRADER has covered college football since 1947 and USC football for the last forty years. A sportswriter, columnist, and sports editor in the Knight-Ridder chain for nearly half a century, he has received numerous awards from the National Newspaper Association, California-Nevada-Arizona Managing Editors Association, and the Los Angeles Press Club. He and his wife, Lois, live in Palm Desert, California. |
 | STEVE BISHEFF has covered John Wooden longer and more extensively than any other journalist, beginning as a young UCLA beat writer in the early championship years through Wooden’s final season and the years since he retired. Bisheff has been a sports columnist for the Orange County Register since 1982, covering everything from the Super Bowl to the Olympics, as well as the Angels, Lakers, Dodgers, USC, UCLA, and major horse races. |
$24.95, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1-58182-541-2 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-541-1 (Hardcover)
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