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The University of Southern California was founded in 1880 by Judge Robert Maclay Widney. He secured donations of 308 acres and seed money from three men of different faiths: Protestant nurseryman Ozro Childs, Irish Catholic former governor John Gately Downey, and German Jewish banker Isaias Wolf Hellman.
As of 2021, USC athletes have won 326 Olympic medals: 153 golds, 96 silvers, and 77 bronzes. That total is more than any other American university, and USC is the only university in the world to have produced a gold medal-winning athlete at every summer Olympiad since 1912.
The USC School of Cinematic Arts is the oldest and largest film school in the United States. It has graduated more alumni who have won Academy and Emmy Awards than any other institution. In September 2006, George Lucas donated $175 million to the school, the largest single gift USC had received at the time.
The name Trojans came from a track and field meet against Stanford University in which USC fought back from an early deficit to lose only by a slight margin. Los Angeles Times sportswriter Owen Bird wrote that the USC athletes fought on like the Trojans of antiquity, and university president George F. Bovard officially approved the name.
George Tyndall was a gynecologist at USC whose reported misconduct spanned from 1990 to 2016. He was fired in 2017 after reaching a settlement with the university. By October 2018, more than 500 current and former students had made accusations. A series of settlements totalled more than $1.1 billion, the largest sexual abuse settlement in the history of any university.
The Spirit of Troy is USC's marching band. It is the only collegiate band in the world with two platinum records, having performed on the Fleetwood Mac albums Tusk in 1979 and The Dance in 1997. The band has also performed at the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics, at Super Bowl XXI in 1987 and Super Bowl XXII in 1988, and in at least ten major movies.