USC, Illinois in ‘Glasnost Bowl’

Southern California and Illinois were named today to play in the ‘Glasnost Bowl’ football game (named for Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s glasnost or openness policy) Sept. 2 in Moscow. The 1989 season opener for both clubs will be the first American-style football game played in the Soviet Union.

The game, duplicating the Rose Bowl practice of matching teams from the Pacific 10 and Big Ten conferences, will be played at the Dynamo soccer stadium, which seats about 50,000. Unbeaten Southern Cal is ranked second in the current Associated Press poll, while Illinois is unranked. The game will be televised worldwide and will be carried by ABC-TV in the United States.