They may be UCLA's biggest fans.

For more than 30 years, Ron and Alan Geisler have attended every UCLA football game and many of the campus' other sporting events working part time as ushers for Game Manage ment.

They also happen to be father and son.

Ironically, it all started when a church friend sought people to work a USC football game at the Coliseum.

The Geislers did it and were called back to work a UCLA game at the Coliseum the following Saturday. So the schedule went: They worked a Trojan game one Saturday, followed by a Bruin game the next until one fateful day, after UCLA moved to the Rose Bowl, when the two schools each had a game at their respective stadiums.

That's when the senior Geisler told USC, "The time has come. I can't cut myself down the middle and put one side here and one there. I'm going with UCLA!"

Today, Ron, still spry at 86, and Alan, 54, are looking forward to their 34th year of greeting fans and helping them find their seats at UCLA football games.

There are no off-season respites for this energetic duo. Both can be found guarding the doors of Pauley Pavilion during basketball games, shagging balls for the softball team and working at any number of other UCLA sporting events, as well as the biggest event of the year, commencement. Frequently, they can be seen chatting up the crowd or kibitzing with student athletes.

"They're very talkative, especially Ron," said their boss, Paul Brown, assistant director for Event Management-Intercollegiate Athletics. "It's amazing the way he gets around at his age, and Al's a hard worker. They're die-hard Bruins."

"We're not supposed to cheer," Ron confided. "I do it, anyway."

"I love the alma mater," added Alan reverently. "I sing it every time I hear the band play it.... 'The Hills of Westwood.' "

Their love affair with UCLA is rooted along the lines of their family tree. Although neither went to school here, Ron proudly boasts that his father attended the University of Cali fornia, Southern Branch after World War I.

"I love UCLA. I wish I could've gone here. I tell kids, if you want a good education, go to UCLA," said Ron, who remembers listening to Bruin football on a battery-powered radio with his dad.

Instead, Ron went to a junior college in Riverside, then enrolled in night classes at Santa Monica College for 10 years. Before his second career in "crowd engineering," he spent 25 years as an electro mechanical engineer for Hughes Aircraft.

Alan, on the other hand, went into his mother's family's trade, and started a gardening business. "If it wasn't for UCLA, I wouldn't have had a regular job in over 30 years," he said.

In 1990, eager to keep himself busy after the death of Beth, "the love of his life" and wife of 48 years, Ron began spending more time at UCLA, working non-football events as well.
A volunteer at his temple and with the Los Angeles police and sheriff's departments as a ham radio operator, Ron credits clean Mormon living and UCLA students for keeping him healthy and nimble.

"They keep me young here," he said.