Price Unhappy With Numbers Game
When freshman running back Durrell Price reported at UCLA, he found that he was assigned jersey No. 33, and he wasn’t happy about it.
Seems he had been told that he could wear No. 5, as he had at Sylmar High.
The problem is No. 5 was retired in honor of three-time All-American and eventual all-pro safety Kenny Easley.
“I talked to him and tried to tell him about the people who had worn No. 33,” said Coach Bob Toledo, who mentioned the last No. 33 at UCLA was All-American Karim Abdul-Jabbar.
“I even told him three plus three is six, and that was close.”
Not close enough, apparently, and Price’s fixation on a single digit will be satisfied with No. 6 in the program this season.
Other retired jerseys at UCLA: No. 13 (Kenny Washington); No. 16 (Gary Beban); No. 34 (Paul Cameron); No. 38 (Burr Baldwin); No. 80 (Donn Moomaw) and No. 84 (Jerry Robinson).
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