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1930: Cougars Don’t Like Vintage Mascot
Now wait just a grape-pickin’ minute! Students at Escondido High were up in arms. They did not cotton to the term Grape Pickers or its use to describe the school’s athletic teams, although the wine-making fruit held agricultural sway in the area and the city had hosted a Grape Day Festival since 1908. The students […]
Read More2014: St. Augustine Goes Intersectional
With Frank Buncom IV leading the defense and explosive running back Elijah Preston propelling the offense, St. Augustine might have more good players than last season’s 11-2 team but could be hard pressed proving it. The Saints have stayed close to home for most of the San Diego Section’s first 54 years, but they’re stepping out this season, with road […]
Read More2014: Intersectional Games & New Coaches
Preseason games don’t have the import of regular-season contests, which carry the prestige of potential league championships and playoff seedings, but the early intersectionals have their own realities. Do well in these games and gain ratings. Have high ratings and increase the possibility of state playoff invitations. Many intersectionals will be played the week of […]
Read More1992: Begin The Playoff Discussion With Bennie
They could have asked Bennie Edens. Writers and prep experts comprising the selection panel for The San Diego Union weekly Top 10 may well have consulted the Point Loma coach. No one could have offered more expert testimony than Bennie. The peninsula wise man coached his 38th team at the Chatsworth Boulevard enclave and lost to […]
Read More1991: Vista Returns to Prominence
Successive records of 4-7, 0-10, and 6-6, had turned whispers into shouts at Vista. Had Dick Haines, borrowing baseball parlance, lost the hop on his fastball? Two state No. 1 rankings, three San Diego Section titles, and 11 league championships were a distant memory until the Panthers shot down Morse, 21-7, in the season’s third week, erasing […]
Read More2014: Edward Silva, 83, Star of ’49 Pointers
Fullback Eddie Silva, who passed away recently in San Diego, where he was born, was the leading scorer in the County in 1949 and Point Loma won a championship. Silva and Marshall (Scooter) Malcolm were touchdown twins for coach Don Giddings’ squad, which posted a 9-1-1 record and rolled to the Southern California minor division championship. Silva […]
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