[Harvey] Pooch Gets Permanent Place at USC - LA TimesJust down the street from the bronze of noble Tommy Trojan, a statue of a mangy mutt has been erected at USC. It's a tribute to George Tirebiter (19??-1950), a mascot whose name referred to his fondness for chasing cars.
Tirebiter, who seems to have roamed onto campus one day in the early 1940s and stayed, sat not altogether impassively on the sidelines during football games...
...Tirebiter, by the way, died 56 years ago — run over by a car he was chasing. One too many whitewalls...
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