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2025 Football Week 0: Maffei Tabs Hornets and Dons as Season Gets Under Way
San Diego Union-Tribune prep maven John Maffei issued a week-of-the-first-game top 20, with Western League leaders Lincoln and Cathedral at the top. Both teams aren’t afraid to schedule tough opponents, ala legendary Duane Maley during San Diego High’s great run from 1948-59. Lincoln coach David Dunn, a former player at Morse and a five year, […]
Read More1950, Looking Back: As Powell Goes, So Go Cavers
The narrative originally was posted Dec. 7, 2013. This team may have been the best of all coached by Duane Maley at San Diego High, but the Cavemen lost two of their best players and five reserves as practice started and their best player at the most important time of the season. They came up […]
Read More1981 Track: El Cajon Valley Jumper Lone State Champion
San Diego County competitors had been stalwarts in track and field since the California Interscholastic Federation was formed 67 years before. But equipment, training, evolution, and population growth also had taken place in other parts of the state and competition had correspondingly stiffened. El Cajon Valley’s Chris Mose was the only individual champion when she […]
Read More1922, Looking Back: Student Gives Newspaper Inside Scoop
The narrative originally was posted Dec. 30, 2013. San Diego High had an unusual relationship with The San Diego Union. Student Alan McGrew, who also served in a business position as the “Temporary Football Manager of San Diego High School,” was the de facto Hilltoppers beat writer for the newspaper. McGrew filed daily reports on […]
Read More1947, Looking Back: A Vote for Point Loma As No. 1
The narrative originally was posted on Nov. 16, 2012. Coach Les Cassie’s Hoover Cardinals were within nine outs of a berth in the Southern California finals. San Diego High was San Diego High, reliably formidable. But Don Clarkson’s Point Loma Pointers may have been the best team of all. The Pointers won the prestigious Pomona […]
Read More1944 Track & Baseball: Hoover (Track), San Diego, Hoover, and Sweetwater (Baseball) Are First
Baseball and track and field continued to feel the effects of the World War II with shorter seasons and limited participation. Teachers and students were answering the call from Uncle Sam and leaving for the military. Allied forces continued to fight fierce battles in Europe and the Pacific. No official count of the number of […]
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