Category: Goal Posts
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The Ducks come Quacking
To date, our Goal Posts have exclaimed their ancient roots by featuring teams that are no longer UCLA conference rivals, if not football teams that only exist in history today. A little over the top? Yeah. That’s the hook because this one is going to be short. I have been meaning to write this post…
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Cubs no more: UCLA Football 1931
Perhaps a look at the 1931 football season will raise some eyebrows in light of the title chosen for this piece. Entering its 13th year of existence, and its 13th football season, UCLA was still a relative newcomer to the preeminent football conference in the West, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). After three seasons in…
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Ceci N’est Pas le Goal Post
Welcome! The Goal Post became the “Official Souvenir Program” of UCLA football beginning with the 1931 football season. But The Goal Post was first used by UCLA as the title for its football magazine during the 1930 season. And if you look at volume numbers in later editions, these 1930-season programs we not included. This…
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A Handwritten Letter
Originally posted on IG on April 8, 2023 When was the last time you wrote a letter? Dad was a prolific letter writer. I know he wrote some to mom and I have some of my own. But beside sending a note to a loved one, Dad utilized letter writing to develop his research before…
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Super Bowl I
Originally posted on IG February 12, 2023. Happy Super Bowl Sunday friends! You might have noticed a theme this week and I’m so excited to share dad’s program from Super Bowl I, played on a January 15, 1967. If I remember correctly, this was a gift from dad’s mentor/friend Bill Schroeder who started the Helm’s…
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the Goal Post
This is a big one for me personally. My dad always told a story that the day after his 8th birthday, he went to his first ever college football game. It was October 16, 1954. UCLA would win that day 72-0 against Stanford and convinced young Ricky that they were the greatest football team of…
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