Editing Sam Barry (section)

==The 1940s==
After Jones' sudden death from a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in July 1941,<ref name=hjuscscb>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xTwcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=01oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2890%2C867624 |newspaper=Victoria Advocate |location=Texas |agency=United Press |title=Howard Jones of U.S.C. succumbs |date=July 28, 1941 |page=2 }}</ref> Barry was a natural choice to take over the reins of the football team and became head coach of all three major team sports simultaneously. He had not been without success as a head coach himself; his Knox College teams posted a record of 15–12–4 from 1918 to 1921, including a perfect 8–0 mark in 1919.  The [[1941 USC Trojans football team|1941]] USC football team finished with a losing record at 2–6–1. Not only was the team mourning the loss of Jones, but Barry also found himself facing a schedule in which a majority of USC's opponents were coached by future Hall of Famers, including [[Paul Brown]], [[Frank Leahy]], and [[Clark Shaughnessy]].  Injuries and illnesses also took their toll, depleting the roster at one point to a mere 28 players.  Despite these roadblocks, Barry put together a team which improved offensively throughout the year, gaining popularity as the season progressed.  The crowd of 86,305 at the USC–[[1941 Stanford Indians football team|Stanford]] game was the largest in the nation in [[1941 college football season|1941]]. And the team made some upsets, defeating [[1942 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]]-bound [[1941 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]], and nearly toppled fourth-ranked [[1941 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] on the road in [[Notre Dame, Indiana|Indiana]], falling by only two points.

In 1942, other concerns took precedence as the 49-year-old Barry entered the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] for service during [[World War II]].<ref name=sbgnnp>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NbBWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S-gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5577%2C6634718 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=Oregon |title=Sam Barry given new Navy post |date= June 1, 1943|page=8 }}</ref> He recommended [[Jeff Cravath]] to take over his duties as USC football coach,<ref name=jcgajatc>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Pu8ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2586%2C1154196 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal |agency=Associated Press |title=Jeff Cravath given job as Trojan coach |date=March 19, 1942 |page=9, part 2 |access-date=October 22, 2015 |archive-date=April 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427221946/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Pu8ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2586,1154196 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Julie Bescos as basketball coach, and [[Rod Dedeaux]] as baseball coach for the duration of the war. As a [[Lieutenant commander (United States)|lieutenant commander]],<ref name=npfgor43>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6CNdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vFoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2827%2C4865751 |newspaper=Lawrence Journal-World |location=Kansas |agency=Associated Press |title=Navy preflight cadets good at obstacle racing |date=March 5, 1943 |page=8 }}</ref> Barry was in charge of physical and military training of Navy personnel in the South Pacific, for which he would later receive a Naval Commendation from then [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]] [[James Forrestal]].

[[File:Rod Dedeaux and Sam Barry.jpeg|thumb|250px|Rod Dedeaux and Barry, c. 1950]]
After leaving the navy in 1945, Barry resumed his positions leading the USC basketball and baseball teams, while also returning as a football assistant under Cravath. He began to restore the basketball program to a nationally competitive level, and found his greatest success yet in baseball. At the [[1948 College World Series]], the Trojans captured their first title by defeating a [[1948 Yale Bulldogs baseball team|Yale]] team captained by future [[President of the United States|President]] [[George H. W. Bush|George Bush]]. The [[1948 College World Series|finals]] were held at [[Hyames Field]] in [[Kalamazoo, Michigan]], settled by a 9–2 win in the third and deciding game.<ref name=yalels>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NFspAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZeUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6098%2C5093036 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, Washington |agency=Associated Press |title=Yale Elis even Trojan series |date=June 27, 1948 |page=1, sports }}</ref><ref name=sctcbt>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hNpXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xvUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4122%2C5445381 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=Washington|title=Southern Cal takes college ball title |date=June 28, 1948 |page=15 }}</ref> The Trojans had a chance to repeat in 1949, but were eliminated when they suffered a pair of extra-inning losses to [[Wake Forest Demon Deacons baseball|Wake Forest]], both by 2&ndash;1 scores.

As the years passed, however, it became evident that Barry was suffering physically from the stress of his various responsibilities. Despite medical warnings, he agreed only to give up coaching the football scout team, continuing as head coach of two sports and serving as chief scout and sideline assistant in football.  It was while scouting a USC opponent in [[1950 USC Trojans football team|1950]] that he died.  Attending a football game in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California]] on September 23, he suffered a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]] while climbing the hill to [[California Memorial Stadium|Memorial Stadium]], and died before reaching the hospital.<ref name=sbdies>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ThkzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yDIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=2883%2C613703 |newspaper=Lodi News-Sentinel |location=California |agency=United Press |title=Sam Barry dies, returned to LA |date=September 25, 1950 |page=6 }}</ref>

At USC's next home football game&mdash;fittingly, against Iowa&mdash;the student body paid tribute to Barry during halftime, taking the field in a block "SC" formation and, after the [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum|Coliseum]] lights were turned out, lighting matches on the field of the darkened stadium for a minute of silence in memory of the coach. He was buried in [[Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City|Holy Cross Cemetery]] in [[Culver City, California|Culver City]].