Steve Shilstone, 1966 alumnus
Nov. 20, 1965. Bruins trail 16-6 with about four minutes to go. Sophomore quarterback Gary Beban hits Dick Witcher with a bomb to make the score 16-14. The ensuing onside kick is successful. Beban promptly throws another bomb to Kurt Altenberg – Bruins 20, USC 16. The Bruin defense, with undersized defensive tackle Terry Donohue, survives a long and grinding final drive by the Trojans, and off to the Rose Bowl they go, where they beat Michigan State 14-12.
Paul Mohme, 1990 (B.A.), 1998 (M.B.A) alumnus
1992 game: Bruins led by less than a touchdown and Southern California marched down the field to the Bruins’ 10-yard line and scored with about a minute remaining, but the Bruins’ defense stuffed a two-point conversion to seal the win. Classy Southern California student body flipped off the Bruin section on their way out as we chanted “Rose Bowl!”
Evan Garcia, 2001 alumnus
I was a freshman and it was 1997. UCLA had beaten USC six years in a row, with the double overtime game in 1996 coming the year before. UCLA was playing USC at the Coliseum, and my friends and I were going to a high school friend’s apartment at USC, where she was a student, so we could park for free and walk to the stadium. We were three freshmen in UCLA gear walking through the USC campus, and getting a lot of dirty looks. It probably would have been worse if we weren’t walking with a young woman wearing USC clothing!
Matt Yee, 2013 alumnus
Obviously, most people will point to last year’s victory over the hated Trojans
as their favorite moment. 
Nothing will really compare to beating them in my senior year, sitting in the rain with my fellow classmates and watching us race out to an early lead only to have SC come back and make it close. The one thing that I will never forget about that game though is that hit by Anthony Barr on USC quarterback Matt Barkley. I have never cheered for a player to get hurt, but the symbolism of Barkley just laying there still gives me chills just thinking about it. Hopefully, we can repeat that performance this year and win our second in a row. 2006 was also a great game and great memory, knocking them out of national title contention and watching the smug Pete Carroll walk off the field in disgust.
Lauren Yang, 2013 alumna
As a newly minted alumna, I would say it’s not too hard to pick out my most memorable UCLA-USC rivalry story, and that would have to be standing out in the rain watching my Bruins win it in last year’s match up. I was with my boyfriend, and we had brought ponchos along, expecting it to rain. And rain it did. But that made it so much more worth it and all the more memorable because now we get to say we were there for UCLA’s first win since 2006 in the rain! It felt so good to see the Victory Bell finally brought home where it belongs, and it made senior year all the more sweet. Now let’s keep it here in Westwood! Go Bruins!
Compiled by Kevin Bowman, Bruin Sports senior staff.