Implementation was recognized as a resounding success The ‘East LA Classic’ of college football, which in its 87th edition took place at the mythical Memorial Coliseum. Los Angeles on a Friday night in front of a huge crowd.
East LA Classics is an annual duel between the football teams of Garfield and Roosevelt High Schools, two traditional Hispanic schools in the East LA area, in which a long-standing rivalry is revealed each fall. event.
What was special about this new sporting battle was that the game left its traditional home, the Weingart Stadium on Cesar Chavez Avenue, to play at the Memorial Coliseum, a double-Olympic stadium that is home to the USC Trojans. The official fan attendance was 27,100, although it is believed that there were several thousand more at the stadium..
A Los Angeles Times reporter pointed out that, according to the President of the Memorial Coliseum, 100% of proceeds from ticket sales will go to schools totaling $250,000 each..
The vast majority of the players on both teams are Hispanic boys, some even take to the field with the flags of Mexico and other countries.
Not only the game itself, but also the performance of the Black Eyed Peas from the halftime show aroused great interest of the public. The 2011 Super Bowl halftime band rocked the student body at the Memorial Coliseum.
“It was one of the biggest sporting events I have ever attended,” said Ron Nochetti of the California Interscholastic Federation. (CIF), according to Eric Sondheimer, a legendary Los Angeles-based student sports journalist.
“The Black Eyed Peas’ Super Bowl-style show was incredible, but the most special part of the evening was the incredible community support and pride in both schools,” the official added.
There were few points in the match. Boyle Heights-based Roosevelt Rough Riders took an 8-0 lead after Isaiah Wright’s 51-yard touchdown in the first period with a two-point conversion.
But the Garfield Bulldogs, whose campus is in East Los Angeles, tied quarterback Damian Cabrera’s run and converted two points in the third period. D With two minutes left in the game, Cabrera himself crossed the goal line in another short run for the game-winning touchdown..
With a different colon conversion The final score was 16-8, and when Roosevelt’s last attempt failed, the bulldog celebration began.which last year was surprised by its historical rival after 10 years of dominance.
The victory actually went to both schools and all of East Los Angeles. The event was fun, received wide publicity, decorated one of the most interesting collegiate sports in the whole country and will make all its participants forever forget the night of October 21, 2022.
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Source: La Opinion
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