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2016-17 Week 3: All Quiet on Top
The first three teams in the Union-Tribune Top 10 are easy. Between the numerous “Shootouts”, “Classics”, “Showcases”, and “Invitationals” which jot the basketball map at this point in the season, getting a handle on Foothills Christian, St. Augustine, and Torrey Pines, numbers 1, 2, and 3, respectively, is piece of cake. Those teams annually play intersectional […]
Read More2010-2017: To Our Subscribers and Passers-by
Next month, on Feb. 14 [2017], will mark the seventh year since we undertook a challenge. I wanted to write the history of San Diego County high school football. That’s where my career started and where it will end. Well, I didn’t write the history (that is almost infinite), but I gave it a shot. […]
Read More2016 Week 17, Cathedral, Madison, & Verdell Hold Sway
Football, it’s a wrap. Cathedral finished fifth in Cal-Hi Sports‘ state top 25, Helix was 14th, and Madison 19th in an outstanding San Diego Section season. Coach Sean Doyle’s Cathedral Dons, wearing the letter “U” on their helmets in the state championship in honor of Cathedral’s previous University of San Diego High designation (and Doyle’s alma-mater), […]
Read More2016-17 Week 2: Knights, Saints Share Top
Foothills Christian, St. Augustine, and Torrey Pines, we know about. All three played before overflow crowds of more than 3,000 persons in the Under-Armour tournament at Torrey Pines over the Christmas holiday. What about the Vista? The Panthers are fourth in the weekly San Diego Union- Tribune poll but they’ve managed to stay under the radar […]
Read More1955: Anaheim Was In Like Flynn
Mickey Flynn became known as the “Ghost of La Palma”. Because of the 1950-55 success of Clare Van Hoorebeke’s Anaheim Colonists program, the Anaheim parks department had agreed to expand the La Palma Avenue baseball park to include 7,500 grandstand seats in the outfield. The first football game drew an overflow crowd of 9,000 persons […]
Read More1955: Cavers in Epic Struggle
By the grace of a 17-14 advantage in first downs, San Diego High survived a 20-20 standoff with Anaheim in the CIF playoff semifinals before 10,271 persons at Long Beach Veterans’ Memorial Stadium. A heart-thumping conclusion represented the final shot in a frenetic battle of undefeated teams that brought an end to a week of […]
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