On September 19, 2006, USC announced that George Lucas had donated $ 175 – 180 million to his alma mater to expand the film school.

For much of the late 20th century, USC had a reputation for being a politically conservative campus.

The Bulls had two 1st round picks in the 2009 NBA Draft and decided to take Wake Forest stand out forward James Johnson and athletic USC forward Taj Gibson.

These included Spielberg ; Debra Winger ; Burtt's sleeping wife, who had a cold ; a burp from his USC film professor ; and raccoons, sea otters, and horses.

Prior to the establishment of ICANN for this purpose, IANA was administered primarily by Jon Postel at the Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) of the University of Southern California ( USC ), under a contract USC / ISI had with the United States Department of Defense, until ICANN was created to assume the responsibility under a United States Department of Commerce contract.

David Acomba, a classmate of Lucas at USC film school, had been selected to direct the special, but he chose to leave the project, a decision supported by Lucas.

* NOAAS Mount Mitchell ( S 222 ), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration survey ship in commission from 1970 to 1995 which had previously served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as USC & GS Mount Mitchell from 1968 to 1970

Besides Griffin winning consecutive Heismans at Ohio State, three other programs had two different players win the Heisman Trophy in consecutive years: Yale ( 1936 – 37 ), Army ( 1945 – 46 ), and Southern California ( USC ) ( 2004 – 05, though Reggie Bush voluntarily forfeited his 2005 award in September 2010 and sent the trophy back to the Heisman Trust ).

With an earlier win in 2002, the USC program actually had three different winners within four years.

Coincidentally, Hawpe, when playing for LSU in the 2000 College World Series, had hit a three-run home run off Prior that eliminated USC from contention that year.

" Later that year, during the halftime show of the football game against USC ( where Simpson had played football and won the 1968 Heisman Trophy ), band members drove a white Ford Bronco with bloody handprints around the Stanford stadium track, an obvious allusion to the low-speed chase in which police followed a white Bronco carrying Simpson around the Los Angeles area.

For USC, dropping their highest and lowest computer rankings would have left them with four third-place finishes, worth 23 points each for a total of 92, while LSU would have had four second-place finishes for a total of 96.

In 1985, in part to avoid confusion with the University of Southern California ( USC ), the University of Santa Clara, as it had been known since 1912, changed its name to Santa Clara University.

Bond and John Wayne, who as Marion Morrison had played tackle for USC in 1926 before an injury ended his career, became lifelong friends and colleagues.

Previously known as the USC School of Engineering, it was renamed on March 2, 2004, as the Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering in honor of Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi and his wife Erna, who had recently donated $ 52 million to the school.

The private school was founded as the Chaffey College of Agriculture of the University of Southern California ; USC, also a private university, had been founded three years earlier in nearby Los Angeles.

During this period, Chaffey's football team had a 1-1 series with the young USC football team, winning 32-6 in 1893 and losing 38-0 in 1897.

* B Specials – part-time, usually on duty for one evening per week and serving under their own command structure, and unpaid, although they had a generous system of allowances ( which were reduced following the reorganisation of the USC a few years later ), served wherever the RIC served and manned Mobile Groups of platoon size.

By incorporating the former UVF into the USC as the C1 Specials, the Belfast government had created a mobile reserve of at least two brigades of experienced troops in addition to the A and B Classes who, between them, made up at least another operational infantry brigade, which could be used in the event of further hostilities.

On September 19, 2006, USC announced that alumnus George Lucas had donated US $ 175 million to expand the film school with a new facility.

Carroll was named the Trojans ' head football coach on December 15, 2000, signing a five-year contract after USC had gone through a tumultuous 18 day search to replace fired coach Paul Hackett.

The search then moved to the San Diego Chargers coach Mike Riley, who had been an assistant coach at USC before later becoming the head coach of Oregon State.

Under Garrett, USC had tried to recruit Carroll to be their head coach in 1997, while he was coaching the Patriots, but Carroll was unable to take the position.

Former NFL players ( including USC alumni ), such as Ronnie Lott, Gary Plummer, Tim McDonald and Willie McGinest offered their support for Carroll, who they noted had a player-friendly, easygoing style that might suit the college game and particularly recruiting.

On October 6, 1923, Pomona College and USC played in the inaugural game at the Los Angeles Coliseum, with the Trojans prevailing 23-7.

Along with modeling, Selleck attended the University of Southern California on a basketball scholarship where he played for the USC Trojans men's basketball team.

USC has played the most times in the Rose Bowl, with 33 appearances, followed by Michigan ( 20 ), Washington ( 14 ), and Ohio State ( 14 ).

USC has played every current Big Ten school in the Rose Bowl except for Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota.

schools like Washington and USC ) were played north in Portland at the larger Multnomah Stadium.

Undeterred, he played a season for Bakersfield Junior College, making the Junior College All-American team while making the grades needed to enroll at USC.

He played college football for the University of Southern California ( USC ), and was honored as an All-American.

He accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Southern California, where he played for the USC Trojans football team from 1991 to 1994.

Bond attended the University of Southern California and played football on the same team as future USC coach Jess Hill.

Its research centers have played a major role in development of multiple technologies, including early development of the Internet when USC researcher Jonathan Postel was an editor of communications-protocol for the fledgling internet, also known as ARPANET.

The following conferences and institutions received automatic qualification for the 2009 Championships, which were played on May 8 – 10: Collegiate Water Polo Association, Michigan ; Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Marist ; Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, USC ; Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Cal Lutheran ; and Western Water Polo Association, Loyola Marymount.

During his years at USC ( 1977 – 1980 ), he helped the team to a share of the 1978 national championship and played in the 1979 and 1980 Rose Bowls.

The first collegiate football game played in the Kingdome was between the Washington State Cougars and USC Trojans, when Ricky Bell set the NCAA single-game rushing yardage record ( later broken by Reuben Mayes of Washington State ).< ref >

After playing football for two years at West Los Angeles College, Johnson transferred to University of Southern California, where he played for coach John Robinson's USC Trojans football team in 1994 and 1995.

Titans ' Head Coach Jeff Fisher, who became friends with Johnson while he played at USC, said he thought Johnson's numbers and production spoke for themselves: " He still played at a high-level last year.

He enrolled at the University of Southern California, where he played both baseball and football for the USC Trojans.

While at USC, he played with 14 future Major Leaguers, including Hall of Famer Tom Seaver and slugger Dave Kingman.

Palmer attended the University of Southern California, and played for the USC Trojans football team from 1999 to 2002.

Polamalu received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Southern California, and played for the USC Trojans football team from 1999 to 2002.

Leinart played college football for the University of Southern California ( USC ).

Leinart attended the University of Southern California, where he played for coach Pete Carroll's USC Trojans football team from 2001 to 2005.