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THE HISTORY OF BRUIN FOOTBALLIN THE BEGINNING...UCLA first opened its doors in 1919 as the University of California, Southern Branch. They fielded a team that same year and went 2-6, losing to Manual Arts HS 74-0 in the 1st game but went on to beat LA City College and the Occidental College Frosh team. They were known then as the Cubs.In 1924, UCSB reached 4 year status and changed the school moniker from Cubs to Grizzlies. During this time, they played in the old Southern Conference with the likes of Pomona, Whittier, and Cal Tech. In 1926 the University of Montana Grizzlies became agitated that the upstart UCSB school had taken its name and filed a formal protest directly to UCSB's Vermont Blvd campus. Keeping with the bear motif, the school selected Bruins because Cal had already used Bears. (Incidently, UCLA met Montana in 1929 and beat them, 14-0.) In 1927, the school changed its name to the University of California at Los Angeles and a year moved their campus to Westwood and joined the Pacific Coast Conference (the precursor to today's Pac-10 conference); thus becoming our modern UCLA Bruins. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||