 At the time of its founding, the city of Los Angeles had only 11,000 people.Bovard oversaw the establishment of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (1880), School of Music (1884), College of Medicine (1885) and what would become the School of Fine Arts (1887).He was also the president during the creation of the precursor to the Spirit of Troy and the school's first college football game in 1888.