›› In 1976, Russ Saunders ‘30, one of the two models for Tommy Trojan, recreated his stance. Saunders and fellow football player Ernie Pinckert put in hours posing for sculptor Roger Noble Burnham. “The result you see is my head, chest and shoulders,” Saunders said. “The rest is all Ernie.” Saunders, who became a movie stuntman, trained at Santa Monica’s Muscle Beach, which began in 1934 as a Works Progress Administration project. Saunders saved slides and hours of film and audio recordings of the fitness Mecca, which reside in USC’s Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.