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2014: Calipatria’s Dubious Mark; Helix, ‘Side Move Up
Blown out 63-6 and 84-6 in its first two games, Calipatria appears to have given up more points in successive games than any 11-man team in the history of San Diego County and San Diego Section football. History in this case goes back to 1893, when the first reported game was San Diego High’s 8-0 win over the YMCA […]
Read More2014 Week 3: Helix, Oceanside Gain Separation
Helix had 16 first-place votes and Oceanside the other three as the two big shots from opposite points of the County are beginning to separate from the rest of the Top 10 in the UT-San Diego poll. Helix gained only one point to 187 but Oceanside gained 41 to 174, while No. 3 Mission Hills dropped 35 points to 123. St. […]
Read More2014 Week 2: Madison’s Questionable Choice
Rick Jackson’s program at Madison took off in 2008. The Warhawks are 66-9-1 since and success is noted everywhere. The school, hard by I-805 and Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, has a modern, aluminium stadium that hosted about 4,000 persons Friday night when the opponent was St. Augustine. Multiple signage points out the Warhawks’ state division championships […]
Read More1954: San Diego-Santa Monica Playoff Game Film
Dr. Tebb Kusserow, an all Southern California lineman at Santa Monica High in 1960, is involved with the Samohi Archival Project and provided this rare footage of a Southern Section playoff in 1954 between San Diego High (dark uniforms) and Santa Monica at Corsair field on the Santa Monica College campus. Led by future NFL quarterback […]
Read More2014: Helix 15th in State Top 25
A come-from-behind-win against a ranked team from the Southern Section resulted in coach Troy Starr’s Helix Highlanders landing 15th in Cal-Hi Sports‘ State Top 25 this week. Oceanside is 16th, Mission Hills 21st, and St. Augustine is “On the Bubble”. El Capitan is third in Southern California in Division III, and Christian third in D-IV. […]
Read More2014: 1956 Game Film, Visit With Hoover’s Baranski
Thanks to Hoover alumnus and school historian Chuck Hansen, we were able to acquire footage of Hoover’s celebrated football victory over San Diego in 1956, plus a 1992 televised interview with the late Walt Baranski, a star on that Cardinals team. Baranski, who was slowed by a progressive, crippling disease and passed away at age 69 in 2008, […]
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