BEARING DOWN; BRUINS WIN 8TH STRAIGHT IN RIVALRY : UCLA 34, USC 17.Byline: Eric Noland Daily News Staff Writer UCLA's football team retained its deed to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Next objective: the national title. The unbeaten Bruins stole the ball seven times and received four touchdowns from freshman tailback DeShaun Foster DeShaun Xavier Foster (born January 10, 1980 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American football running back who plays for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. on Saturday in defeating cross-town rival University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission 34-17 before 88,080 spectators at the Rose Bowl. University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. extended to eight games its win streak against USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. - an unprecedented feat in a series that dates to 1929. At the game's conclusion, a heavily partisan crowd taunted the Trojans with chants of ``Eight more years!'' ``Our kids just respond,'' UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX coach Bob Toledo Bob Toledo (born March 4, 1946, in San Jose, California) is an American football coach, recently hired as head coach at Tulane University. He is best-known as the thirteenth head coach at UCLA. said of the Bruins. ``They know how to win. There's just a belief that we can win every game we play.'' UCLA certainly has been doing that lately. The Bruins have won a school-record 20 games in a row - including 10 this year - and are hoping to play for the national championship in the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz., at season's end. The Bruins, ranked third in the nation by The Associated Press, are rated No. 2 in the Bowl Championship Series, a process that will determine the two participants for the national title. UCLA will try to defeat Miami in a regular-season finale in two weeks and then hope to remain ahead of Kansas State in the complicated bowl formula. UCLA's victory - the most lopsided outcome in the series in a dozen years - was made possible by an opportunistic defense that recovered five USC fumbles and intercepted two passes from the Trojans' freshman quarterback, Carson Palmer. ``We just weren't at our best today on the offensive side,'' said Paul Hackett, USC's first-year coach. ``We haven't turned the ball over all year, and then all of a sudden we have four or five people turning it over.'' UCLA made USC (7-4) pay dearly for its clumsiness. Foster had three touchdown runs, one of 65 yards and two more of 1 yard each, and caught a 4-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Cade McNown. His four touchdowns set a UCLA record for a true freshman (a first-year player who has not used a redshirt season). ``I wanted to contribute a little, and I'm glad I did,'' said Foster, who rushed for 109 yards on the day. Other key contributors for the Bruins were safety Jason Stephens, who recovered two fumbles, intercepted a pass and forced a fumble; linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, who had four quarterback sacks and forced a fumble; and cornerback Marques Marques may refer to:
CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) UCLA tailback DeShaun Foster celebrates one of his four touchdowns in the Bruins' 34-17 win over USC on Saturday. See Sports. Tina Gerson/Daily News |
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