Giles Pellerin Giles L . Pellerin ( December 23 , 1906 - November 21 , 1998 ) , nicknamed the Superfan or Super Fan , was an American telephone company executive and a fan of the University of Southern California Trojans ( USC ) college football team , notable for having attended 797 consecutive USC football games over a period of 73 years until his death at age 91 . He was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995 . Pellerin ' s streak began in 1925 , while he was still a student at USC ( he graduated in 1930 ) . During his streak he attended USC games in 75 stadiums in over 50 cities . Until his death , he had watched every game played in USC ' s major football rivalries , including 68 games with UCLA and 69 games with Notre Dame . He had seen the introduction of USC icons such as Traveler in 1927 and Tommy Trojan in 1930 . He had witnessed all but one of USC ' s bowl game s , including the regular - season Mirage Bowl in Tokyo , Japan in 1985 . During his streak USC went 532 - 225 - 40 , winning nine national championships , and played under ten different head coaches . Pellerin never played football himself . A resident of the Pasadena area for his entire life , he attended his first USC football game while still a student at Huntington Park High School , going to the 1923 Rose Bowl Game in which USC defeated Penn State . It was USC ' s first appearance in the Rose Bowl , and Pellerin would go on to see the Trojans ' next 27 appearances as well . In his private life , Pellerin married and became a successful telephone company executive . He delayed his own 1935 honeymoon by eight months in order to combine it with a USC football road game ( against the University of Hawaii in Honolulu ) , and donated over $ 1 . 3 million to USC to endow four athletic scholarship s : three for football and one for swimming . Pellerin claimed to have traveled over 650 , 000 miles and spent over $ 100 , 000 to attend the games in his streak ( as of 1996 ) . In 1949 , he walked out of a hospital just five days after an appendectomy in order to attend a home game , telling nurses that he was going for a walk . USC embraced Pellerin and began including his story in their annual football media guide . By the 1990s he had become a subject for many sports journalists , including stories in " USA Today " and " Sports Illustrated " and on the ABC Network . In 1995 , Pellerin was enshrined in the USC Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the second class of inductees . He won the first annual Sears Diehard Fan Award as " America ' s NCAA Division I Diehard College Sports Fan " in 1996 . Pellerin died during the 1998 UCLA - USC rivalry game ( ironically that game concluded UCLA ' s 8 - game winning streak ) . During the game , he felt ill and asked his next - younger brother , Oliver Pellerin , who was attending the game with him , to take him home . As he was being brought outside , he died of cardiac arrest in the parking lot of the Rose Bowl , which was coincidentally the same location where he attended his first USC game . His younger brothers also had long streaks . Oliver viewed 637 consecutive games ( 1945 – 2001 ) , passing away in 2002 at age 93 ; the youngest , Max Pellerin , at one point had a streak of 300 + , passing away in 2001 at age 91 .