College Football traditions
Traveler and USC
Traveler is the pure white horse that appears at all USC home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Jockeyed by the Trojan warrior mascot, when USC scores, Traveler and his rider gallop up and down the sideline while the USC Marching Band plays "Conquest."
Traveler was named after the horse of Civil War Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Earlier attempts at a mascot for USC included a series of dogs named "George Tirebiter." USC settled on Traveler after the horse's ride at the 1961 Rose Bowl Parade. Unlike Georgia's famous Ugas, which have all been English bulldogs from the same bloodline, the Travelers haven't been of the same breed.
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