Jerry Crowe at the LA Times explains why UCLA football plays home games at the Rose Bowl, which he points out, puts "UCLA in the unusual position of traveling a greater distance to home games (26 miles to Pasadena) than to its most important road game (14 miles to the Coliseum every other year)." In 1965, westside NIMBYs led by then-California Governor Pat Brown and California regent Dorothy Chandler scuttled plans for a $6.5 million, 44,000 seat football stadium that would have been built into the hillside at the present site of Drake Stadium. [LAT]
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