Be Careful in Labeling the Play of the Weak

The Trojan defense answered its skeptics loud and clear Saturday afternoon at Eugene. USC stopped not one but two Oregon quarterbacks.

Forty-five unanswered points should stop all the talk about the defense being the “weak link” on this year’s team.

TOM TURNER

Dana Point

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Buried deep in your report of the USC-Oregon game, you finally mention that Oregon lost a late touchdown due to an illegal block call. As the official newspaper of Trojan football, in all your preening and fawning, you neglected to mention what the replays showed: It was a horrible call.

Since the days of Charles White, USC has shown it can always beat an opponent because they have seven more men on their side.

GLENN M. LANGDON

Garden Grove

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I knew before the start of the USC-Oregon game that only one team was going to be 3-0 when the game ended.

But what I didn’t know was that the Trojans needed a 13-0 reminder that it’s a 13-0 record that guarantees USC a third straight national title!

GREG BABIAN

Bellevue, Wash.