Team:
UCLA Bruins
Stadium: Rose Stadium
Conference: Pac 10
Sport: College Football
Background: The University of California,
Los Angeles, commonly known as UCLA, is the Los Angeles campus
of the University of California.
As of 2003, the university has more than 35,000 students,
and is led by Chancellor Al Carnesale.
History:
UCLA was founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University
of California. It is the second-oldest campus in the University
of California system. In 1927, the school was renamed "University
of California at Los Angeles"; the word 'at' was officially
replaced by a comma in 1958. Also in 1927, the state broke
ground at a new campus on the chaparral-covered hills of a
real estate development called Westwood. (The first campus
was located on Vermont Avenue.) The first classes were held
in 1929 in the four original buildings on the 400-acre campus.