COLLEGE NOTEBOOK: FOR A REAL RIVALRY, SEE OXY-POMONA.Byline: Scott French Staff Writer EAGLE ROCK - The Southland's oldest college football rivalry is, as might be expected, steeped in tradition and lore, firing up alumni from two great academic institutions in an annual showdown for, at the least, bragging rights. USC-UCLA? Mere upstarts. Occidental and Pomona colleges have been battling on the gridiron since 1895, 34 years before the Trojans and Bruins first tangled, and Saturday afternoon's showdown at Merritt Field in Claremont will be the 107th meeting. At stake, since 1941, is ``The Drum,'' on which the scores of the first 106 meetings are written. Oxy (6-0), ranked seventh in NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. , leads the series 57-46-3 and has won four of the past five years. ``It's a great rivalry,'' says Dale Widolff, in his 24th year as Occidental head coach and 26th with the Tigers. ``It's bigger for our alums, just because it was a big, big game for them. ... But our kids like to see 'The Drum.' They want to keep `The Drum.' '' The game against Redlands, usually for the SCIAC SCIAC SIGINT Correlation Integration & Analysis Capability title, has supplanted the Pomona rivalry for Oxy's football team, Widolff says. The Tigers beat Redlands last weekend. Pomona, which has competed as Pomona-Pitzer since 1975, most anticipates its showdown with Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, with which it forms the five Claremont colleges Claremont Colleges, at Claremont, Calif.; including five liberal arts and sciences colleges and two graduate schools; founded 1925, known until 1961 as the Associated Colleges at Claremont. Their history began with Pomona College (inc. . Southern Californians will follow L.A.'s other big showdown more closely, but the alumni and fans of Oxy and Pomona know their rivalry has something USC-UCLA never will. ``They can say what they want,'' Widolff says, ``but ours is older. And it will always be older. They can play a lot of times, but they're still not going to catch us.'' --Also: Juraj Zatovic passed Robert Lynn as USC's men's water polo water polo, swimming game encompassing features of soccer, football, basketball, and hockey. The object of the game is to maneuver, by head, feet, or hand, a leather-covered ball 27 to 28 in. career scoring leader during the top-ranked Trojans' 10-3 romp Sunday over UC Santa Barbara. The Slovakian Olympian has 193 goals. ... UCLA's Ben Kohlloeffel won the ITA ITA abbr. initial teaching alphabet ITA initial teaching alphabet: a partly phonetic alphabet used to teach reading ITA n abbr (BRIT) (= initial teaching alphabet) → West Regional men's tennis singles title. Pepperdine's Ivor Lovrek and Pedro Rico captured the doubles crown. ... UCLA's men's golf team won The Prestige at PGA West in La Quinta, placing four players among the top 11. Chris Heintz and Erik Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the tied for third. ... Cal State Northridge's men's soccer team, led by Big West Player of the Week Ryan Rossi's two goals, took command of the conference race with a 2-1 victory Wednesday over UC Irvine. ... CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge women's basketball coach Staci Schulz hired Jan Bethea as an assistant. Scott French, (818) 713-3627 scott.french(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: The scores from the first 106 Occidental-Pomona football games are written on ``The Drum,'' which goes to the winner. Kirby Lee/Courtesy of Occidental College |
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