In a city where men who look like Terry Donahue become movie stars, Donahue became a football coach. Donahue got the UCLA head coaching job in 1976, when he was 31. And so, with that story, and his ascendency to the head coaching job, the “Gutty Little Bruin” became a non-erasable image. Donahue retired in 1995, and most would agree, as would Donahue himself in later years, that he stopped too soon. Able-bodied Bruin football players had somehow acquired, and were using, handicap placards to park, taking spots away from people in wheelchairs and on crutches.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 09, 2021 20:03 UTC