On a side note and completely unrelated but this made me think of it for some reason, I found a ticket in my grandmother's belongings after she died in 2001 of a Notre Dame-Southern California ticket from 1931. Naturally, I stole it form my aunts/uncles before they could take it.
but according to wikipedia:
1931 - USC 16, Notre Dame 14
More than 300,000 fans welcomed the Trojans home from this thrilling victory in South Bend—a victory clinched by what sportswriter Maxwell Stiles called "Johnny Baker’s 10 little toes and three BIG points.” After trailing 14-0, USC won the game with a Johnny Baker 33-yard field goal with one minute remaining. The win snapped Notre Dame’s 26-game unbeaten string and was the Trojans’ first win in South Bend. Called "...the biggest upset since Mrs. O’Leary’s cow knocked over that lantern" by El Rodeo, USC’s student yearbook, it clinched USC’s second national title. Sports historians cite this come from behind victory with Jones as coach that prompted the school from the West to catapult into the same elite circle with ND.
Pretty neat my grandmother had a ticket to it hahah I have to surreptitiously inquire about who exactly it was, I assume my great-grandfather since he was a business owner through the depression and thus had a job and fork out the cash.
Anywho, it is now one of my short-term goals in life (after getting into Cornell or Cal for their Master's in CRP haha) to watch a Notre Dame-Southern Cal game from exactly section 21 row 52 seat 12. hahaha I'd be pretty cool to sit in that seat exactly 80 years after my great-grandfather did to watch the Irish win and propel them back into the elite status of USC and co.
