Tommy Trojan, The Mascot of USC

• Roger Noble Burnham, "Tommy Trojan", 1930. California Art Bronze foundry.
  • Plaque with Helen of Troy on the east side of the base
  • Plaque on north side of the base with University seal.
  • Plaque with athletes on the west side of the base.
  • A torch on the south side of the base.

  • An earlier iteration of the mascot, called The Trojan, by A. Fralich, probably from the late 1920s. Photograph of Fralich and Rufus B. Von KleinSmid.

Bibliography of sources relating to the making of Tommy Trojan:

• For Burnham: Daily Trojan, March 16, 1962;
  
• For history of the statue: Daily Trojan, October 7, 1948, Daily Trojan, May 28, 1930;
  
• For dedication: Hill, H. W., ed. The Semicentennial Celebration of the Founding of the University of Southern California, 1880-1930. Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1930;
  
• For Saunders: Los Angeles Times, April 8, 1976, section IV, p.1.

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