{"id":3476,"date":"2013-10-17T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/about\/news\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2013-10-17T00:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T04:00:42","slug":"usc-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/usc-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Souvenirs from the 1953 Notre Dame vs. USC Game"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/a>
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The Archives of the University of Notre Dame recently received a donation of interesting memorabilia from the Notre Dame vs. Southern California (USC) football game on 11\/28\/1953.<\/p>\n

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Football Program Cover: Notre Dame vs. Southern California (USC), 1953\/1128.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An eight year old Felix Quesada Jr. attended the game at the Coliseum with his father. After the 49-14 Notre Dame victory, Felix Sr. and Felix Jr. made their way down to the field. As Felix Jr. recalls,<\/p>\n

“My dad told me to stand near the ND bench as the players left the field. My dad was able to catch up with the ND players as a large crowd gathered on the field. My dad reached out and grabbed a hold of one of the player’s jersey – #9 Don Schaefer. The team wore green tear away jerseys then. The jersey did as intended, tore away, and my dad ended up with the #9 from the jersey in his hand. Don looked back, smiled, and ran into the tunnel toward the locker room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Numeral (#9) worn by player Don Schaefer in the Notre Dame vs. Southern California (USC) football game, 1953\/1128. Felix Quesada Sr. grabbed the jersey as Schaefer was leaving the field.\u00a0 The tear-away jersey gave way, leaving the number in Quesada’s hand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“My dad and I went to the locker room exit and waited for the players to come out. They exited and we got to meet Don and eight other players and get their autographs – it was a thrill to meet Don and Ralph Guglielmi, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Chin strap worn by player Nick Raich in the Notre Dame vs. USC football game, 1953\/1128<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“This is one of my fondest memories of time spent with my dad. He saved these mementos during his life and passed them to me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Football Tickets: Notre Dame vs. Southern California (USC), 1953\/1128<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Notre Dame Archives gratefully thanks Felix Quesada for this generous donation that helps to document Notre Dame’s history.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>

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The Archives of the University of Notre Dame recently received a donation of interesting memorabilia from the Notre Dame vs. Southern California (USC) football game on 11\/28\/1953. An eight year old Felix Quesada Jr. attended the game at the Coliseum with his father. After the 49-14 Notre Dame victory, Felix Sr. and Felix Jr. made … Continue reading “Souvenirs from the 1953 Notre Dame vs. USC Game”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":4370,"featured_media":3483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30,37,71],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nd-history","tag-donations","tag-football","tag-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 21:51:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}