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50 days to USC football: Adrian Young, the Irish Trojan, Nick Figueroa and the No. 50

The countdown is halfway through! USC football will return in 50 days.

That means 50 more days of exploring the history and prospects of each Trojan jersey number.

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Here’s a look at No. 50:

Who wore it best?

“There is Ireland in Matthew Adrian Young’s face,” Dwight Chapin of the Los Angeles Times wrote of USC’s All-American linebacker in 1967.

Indeed, the greatest No. 50 in USC history was full-blooded Irish. Adrian Young grew up in Dublin, trading in his soccer boots for football cleats after moving to America at the age of 11.