Author: Bradley Reichard

Upsilon alumnus Elvin “Ducky” Drake, a long-time Bruin track coach and trainer, gave many a rousing speech prior to UCLA victories over Cal back in the 1970-80s. The last time Drake’s sentiments were uttered on the Westwood campus was 2009, when former Bruins lineman Ed Kezirian channeled Drake’s speech about how the people in Berkeley treated the Bruins like poor relations. Drake, who spent more than 60 years as a student, coach and trainer at UCLA, raged about it before UCLA-Cal football games from 1972-88.

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Russ Hess at the Colosseum on a trip through Europe.

Steve Yu led a group of freshmen in a Bruin community service project, planting plants and painting buildings. Every year, UCLA recruits all the incoming freshman to do a day of service for the community, and they see leaders from alumni (like Sig Pi’s) to lead the projects.

Brothers Won Park, Scot Kawano, Steve Yu, Jeff Bara and Scott Good (that’s 3 past Sages) help launch Todd into married life, with one last stop in Vegas.

An airlift of 25 Upsilon brothers descended on Dallas to watch Jerry Neuheisel lead a win for the ages, including Won Park, Steve Seiden, Stu Johnson, and Jason Won.

Nhien Le and Brian Gorman ran in the San Francisco Giants’ 10K… when will they learn that they could have been sitting on their butts drinking beer.

Rich Marcus, Al Hernandez, Jay Ross and Brad Reichard fire up with some authentic McCoy Moonshine prior to the Bruins’ win at Virginia.

Dean and Sheila Cameron, Bob and Pat Hillerman, and Bob and Barbie Eggert at the 2013 Nebraska game. They will hit the road again for the Bruins game at Virginia on Aug. 30!