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Archive Home > 2008 > September > 04 > Former guard led USC team to Rose Bowl victory in ’52

Former guard led USC team to Rose Bowl victory in ’52

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
September 4, 2008

LOS ANGELES — Elmer Willhoite, an All-American guard on Southern California’s Rose Bowl championship football team in 1952, has died. He was 78.

Willhoite died Aug. 21 in Hawthorne, Nev., USC announced Tuesday.

He played a key role in sending the Trojans to the 1953 Rose Bowl....

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