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You are bidding on a game-used USC Trojans football jersey from the 2005 season. This white #5 jersey was worn during road games by USC's, All-American and Heisman Trophy winner, Reggie Bush. Reggie was drafted by the New Orleans Saints.
2004: Bush was a difference maker as a sophomore tailback in 2004. He was college football's most exciting player. Overall 2004 while appearing in all 13 games, he ran for 908 yards on 143 carries (6.3 avg.) with 6 TDs, caught 43 passes for 509 yards (11.8 avg.) with 7 TDs, returned 24 punts for 376 yards (15.7 avg.) with 2 TDs, returned 21 kickoffs for 537 yards (25.6 avg.) and even completed a 52-yard TD pass. He started only against Washington State and Oklahoma (LenDale White started the other games at tailback, although both were on the field together often in 2004). He was fifth nationally in all-purpose running (179.2, first in Pac-10), as well as ninth in punt returns (15.7, first in Pac-10) and 16th in kickoff returns (25.6, second in Pac-10).
He had 2,330 all-purpose yards in 2004 (the most by a Trojan since Marcus Allen had a school-record 2,683 yards in his 1981 Heisman season) and averaged 10.1 yards every time he touched the ball (231 touches). He had 34 plays of 20-plus yards in 2004, including 8 of 50-plus yards. His 2 scoring punt returns in 2004 were the most in a season by a Trojan since R. Jay Soward also had 2 in 1998 (and are 1 shy of the USC and Pac-10 season records). He topped the Pac-10 in punt returns for the first time by a Trojan since Raymond Butler in 1979, thereby becoming the first Trojan to win Pac-10 titles in both punt and kickoff returns (he was the league's 2003 kickoff return leader). And if was the first Trojan to lead the Pac-10 in all-purpose yardage since Marcus Allen in 1981 (when he topped the NCAA).
He finished fifth in the voting for the 2004 Heisman Trophy. He was selected as the 2004 College Player of the Year by the Touchdown Club of Columbus. He was named to the 2004 All-American first team by Football Coaches, Cingular/ABC Sports, The Sporting News, ESPN.com, CSTV (all as a return specialist) and AP, SI.com and Rivals.com (as an all-purpose player), to the second team by Walter Camp and honorable mention by SI.com (as a punt returner) and Collegefootballnews.com. He also made the 2004 Collegefootballnews.com Sophomore All-American first team. He was the 2004 Pac-10 Co-Offensive Player of the Year (along with teammate Matt Leinart) and made the All-Pac-10 first team as both a tailback (USC's first tailback first teamer since 1989) and punt returner, and the second team as a kickoff returner. He made the 2004 ESPN.com All-Pac-10 first team and Rivals.com All-Pac-10 first team (as both a punt returner and utility player). He was USC's 2004 team MVP and won USC's Co-Player of the Game versus UCLA and Jack Oakie "Rise and Shine" (longest run) Awards. He was a finalist for the 2004 Walter Camp Player of the Year Award and a semifinalist for the Doak Walker Award and Maxwell Award.
In the opener against Virginia Tech, he caught 3 long scoring passes to become the 10th USC player to catch a school-record 3 TD passes in a game (but the first running back to do so) and he had 258 all-purpose yards (127 on 5 receptions, 60 on 4 punt returns, 44 on 3 kickoff returns and 27 on 9 rushes), all of which earned him Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Week honors. He rushed for 84 yards and a TD on 12 tries (along with a 39-yard kickoff return, 3 punt returns for 17 yards and a 2-yard catch) against Colorado State. At BYU, he and White became the first Trojan duo to each break the 100-yard rushing barrier since Chad Morton and LaVale Woods did so against Oregon State in 1996, as he had 124 yards (the first 100-yard outing of his career) with a career-long 66-yard TD run on 14 carries (he had 211 all-purpose yards as he also caught 4 passes for 42 yards, including a 21-yard TD, returned a kickoff 38 yards and had 7 yards on a pair of punt returns) and White had 110 rushing yards. He then had 240 all-purpose yards (95 on 16 rushes, 25 on 4 receptions, 85 on 4 kickoff returns and 35 on 2 punt returns) at Stanford, with a 17-yard tackle-breaking TD run and a 33-yard zig-zagging punt return to set up USC's winning score. He had 109 yards on 2 kickoff returns (including an 84-yarder), plus he rushed 8 times for 23 yards and caught a 6-yard pass, against California. He had 115 all-purpose yards (49 on 2 punt returns, including a 41-yarder in which he barely stepped out of bounds as he was breaking into the clear, plus 45 yards on 2 receptions and 21 on 5 carries) and caught a 10-yard TD pass versus Arizona State in just 3 quarters of action. He had 126 all-purpose yards (55 on 13 carries and 41 on a game- and career-best 6 receptions with a 15-yard TD, plus a 30-yard punt return) against Washington. At Washington State, he had 143 all-purpose yards (42 on 14 carries, 23 on 5 receptions and 78 on 3 punt returns) with 2 TDs (a 19-yard run and 57-yard punt return). At Oregon State, he had 249 all-purpose yards (88 on 11 rushes, 82 on 3 kickoff returns, 73 on 3 punt returns and 6 on 2 receptions) and had a dazzling reverse-his-field scoring punt return for the second consecutive week (this one was 65 yards) to earn Pac-10 Special Teams Player of the Week honors. He had 130 all-purpose yards (65 yards on 3 kickoff returns, 45 yards on 12 rushes, 19 yards on 4 receptions and 1 yard on a punt return) against Arizona. He took a short pass 69 yards for a TD against Notre Dame (he also ran for 25 yards on 8 carries). At UCLA, Bush had a pair of electrifying touchdown runs (a zig-zagging 65-yarder on the game's second play, then a career-long 81-yarder) among his career-best 335 all-purpose yards; he ran for a career-best 204 yards (the most by a Trojan since Shawn Walters' 234 in 1994 at Stanford) on 15 carries (he had 153 yards and both TDs on just 6 carries in the first half), plus he had 73 yards on a game-best 6 catches, 39 yards on 2 kickoff returns and 19 yards on 2 punt returns. He had 149 all-purpose yards against Oklahoma (75 on 6 carries, 36 on 2 kickoff returns, 31 on 2 receptions and a 7-yard punt return).
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