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By BILL DWYRE

Nov. 16, 1997 12 AM PT

They stopped selling tickets at noon, but the announced “sellout” figure Saturday was 85,697, or 12,639 below the listed capacity of 98,639 for college football. The crowd was the largest regular-season non-USC game since the Bruins moved to the Rose Bowl in 1982. It was also the largest regular-season non-USC crowd since 1946, when the Bruins attracted 92,962 against St. Mary’s at the Coliseum.

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Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre was a three-times-weekly sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2006-15. Before that, he was sports editor of the paper for 25 years. Dwyre was named national editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the ’84 Olympics and winner of the Red Smith Award in 1996 by the Associated Press Sports Editors for sustained excellence in sports journalism. He was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1973 to 1981, when he joined The Times. Dwyre was named National Headliner Award winner in 1985, sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin in 1980 and sportswriter of the year in California in 2009.

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