Marv Goux the Good, Marv Goux the Bad

Marv Goux is not known in Trojan history for selling student football tickets. He is known as a 165-pound linebacker-center who made the Notre Dame all-opponent team three years in a row. He was the most inspirational Trojan coach ever and gave his heart, body and soul for USC. To ever think Marv should not be included in the first elite group of athletes and coaches inducted to the USC Hall of Fame is an insult to Marv and the great tradition of USC sports.

JACK E. WARD

Santa Barbara

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Tom Nessinger (Viewpoint, June 11) has obviously read only the one story about Coach Goux. Were he to read broader, he would learn that Marv Goux was a marvelous player, a great coach, a master motivator and a leader of men. If Mr. Nessinger would leave him out of the Hall, he might as well ban Trojan spirit.

DAVID STODDARD

Fullerton

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In February 1980, I bypassed BYU, Notre Dame, UCLA . . . virtually any college in the nation to attend USC on a football scholarship.

My experience at USC was so discouraging due to the physical abuse and antics of Marv Goux and defensive coordinator Don Lindsey that at the end of 1981 I quit football altogether, never to play again.

I am sorry to read Marv Goux has been honored for anything, at any time, and I hope the Trojans go winless for the rest of eternity.

MATT McGLAUGHLIN

Santa Barbara