Names in the News - Feb. 1, 1990
Homer Griffith, a star USC tailback who was the most valuable player of the 1933 Rose Bowl, died of heart failure. He was 77. Griffith, who lived in Tarzana, is survived by his wife, Mildred, and two sons, James and Glen.
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