The Salt Lake Telegram said USC's “offense was pitifully weak and this, coupled with their rotten tackling, enabled Utah to keep possession of the ball practically all the time.”
The Trojans improved after that 27-12 defeat at Fiesta Park in downtown Los Angeles in 1916. And the Utes haven’t won since then in the city — not even against UCLA, during the Bruins’ era of playing in the Coliseum before moving to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
“I guess everybody's entitled to a bad decade,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said, “or a bad century.