Popular long-time sportswriter Loel Schrader, who was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007, passed away early today from complications with pneumonia. Services are pending.
He covered college football since 1947 as a well-decorated sportswriter, columnist and sports editor in the Knight-Ridder chain, including many years at the Long Beach Press-Telegram. He had a particular affinity for USC football, having covered the Trojans since the John McKay era in the 1960s. In 2006, he co-authored "Fight On! The Colorful Story of USC Football," a definitive history of the Trojan football program. Although he was retired in recent years, up through this past football season he still followed the Trojans as a contributor to various USC publications and websites.
Loel was well loved and much admired by Trojans everywhere. He will be missed. Condolences go out to the Schrader family.
