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2012: Game Officials Recognized; Students to be Honored
More than 400 members of the San Diego County Football Officials’ Association, including four active NFL game officials, gathered at the Hall of Champions this week for their annual awards dinner. Among those attending were referee Mike Carey (University High/Santa Clara University), back judge Don Carey (St. Augustine/California-Riverside), umpire Garth DeFelice (Patrick Henry/San Diego State), […]
Read More2012, Week 10: 60, Yes, 60, Teams Win Playoff Bids
Oceanside won the regular-season poll and could end up meeting No. 2 Helix in the AA finals at Escondido High in four weeks. And dust is kicking up in the sand dunes around Glamis as the Imperial Valley girds a for a possible second-round meeting of two area big shots. Brawley (9-1) has a first-round bye in […]
Read More1943: V is Key
The most important letter in the alphabet was V. World War II was nearing the halfway point. The dark days of early 1942 had receded and Victory, while not in sight, would come. V had become a symbol, visible everywhere throughout the country. There were hundreds of references, from military training programs (V-12), to graphics […]
Read More1987: In Year of Pointers, Panthers Point Fingers
“Elevator! Elevator! We got the shaft!” The age-old shout from unhappy cheering sections, usually directed at game referees, was leveled by head coach Dick Haines and Vista partisans at nine coaches charged with seeding and selecting teams for the San Diego Section playoffs. The mentors, reportedly by an 8-1 vote, nominated San Dieguito as the […]
Read More2012, Week 9: Julian Wins Barnburner
You could call it the “Battle of Banner Grade.” Or, as the father of the Julian coach says, “It’s kind of a Cal-Stanford Big Game.” Coach Tim White, the son of University of California alum and legendary San Diego Chargers lineman Ed White, guided his Julian Eagles to two touchdowns in the final four minutes and then […]
Read More2012, Week 8: Twice in 102 Years for Army-Navy!
The chapter on football would be very brief in the history of the Army and Navy Academy and its history goes back to 1910. They turn out soldiers and sailors at the boarding school on Highway 101 in Carlsbad. So old and new Warriors have snapped to attention. Coach Frank Henry’s Cadets improved their season […]
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