Three runners in USC uniforms and one runner in a white Stanford uniform jump hurdles on the track at the Coliseum Officials officials in the background observe. Spectators are seated in the grandstand in the distance.
Louis Zamperini ran track and field for Torrance High School and USC. He qualified in the 5000 meters race for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. While attending USC in 1938, he set the national collegiate mile record.
Louis Zamperini stands on the track of Bovard Field, University of Southern California, photographed from the waist up. He is wearing a Torrance High School track uniform.
Reported in "U.S.C. UNVEILS TROJAN STATUE: Speakers Laud Spirit of Ancient Troy's Sons University's Great Progress Cited by Dr. Stonier Alumni Leaders Praised for Creation of Shrine," Los Angeles Times, 07 Jun. 1930: A2.