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2013, Week 12: Playoffs Begin In 6 Divisions
We must be in an era of entitlement. How else can you explain that 64 of 97 San Diego Section teams were invited to participate in the playoffs? And 25 don’t even have winning records. Seventeen losing teams and eight with .500 records are in. They’ll vie for 6 divisional championships. Sixty of 96 teams, […]
Read More2013 Week 11: How The Mighty Have Fallen
San Diego High’s football program has bottomed out. The Cavers forfeited to Hoover on the Monday before the Friday game this week. The reason given was that they had less than 20 players and unable to field a full squad. There was a time when that many running backs turned out for football at San […]
Read More1948: High Schools and King Football Rule
A small item in The San Diego Union revealed that the Coliseum Arena in San Diego would be dark on Sept. 24. A scheduled boxing card was called off, because the promoter didn’t want to compete for attendance and gate receipts with the annual City Schools’ football carnival. The carnival, kickoff to the high school […]
Read More2013, Week 11: Oceanside No. 1 Again, Barely
Oceanside is back on top in the U-T San Diego football poll, despite losing 30-6 to Mission Hills, the No. 2 team, a few weeks back. I voted for Oceanside. My thoughts were as conflicted as the total points separating Nos. 1 and 2. Oceanside compiled 276 points and 12 first-place votes following its 43-0 […]
Read More2013, Week 10: Red Devils & Cardinals Roll
Football is fun again at Sweetwater and Hoover is traveling in style. Sweetwater whipped Castle Park, 28-7, for its fourth victory in a row and a 5-4 record. The Red Devils had not won 4 straight since 1996 and have not been 5-4 since 1998. Hoover is a 7-game winner for only the 12th season […]
Read More2007: Oceanside’s 10th and First Titles
Oceanside became the second San Diego County team (and the first San Diego Section squad) to participate in the state playoffs, which resumed in 2006 after an 80-year hiatus. The Pirates (11-1) of coach John Carroll, who won Carroll’s fourth Section championship and Oceanside’s 10th overall, were chosen to represent the South in the Division […]
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