USC football introduces throwback jerseys in rare move

LOS ANGELES — For years – for decades, even – USC’s athletic department has often found itself caught between the rock of university tradition and the hard place of collegiate football’s evolution, grappling with varying degrees of innovation in an ever-increasing need for revenue.

That’s extended, throughout the Trojans’ history, to the program’s uniforms, where USC has largely refused to don any sort of alternate jersey. On Thursday, though, Trojans fans were set abuzz with the athletic...