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2012, Week 15: Santa Fe Christian Advances
Santa Fe Christian’s first venture into the State bowl regional playoffs was against Arcadia Rio Hondo Prep, a Southern California small schools power for almost 40 years. ‘Hondo had won 10, eight-man championships and was runner-up four times since 1973 before moving up to 11-man football. But Santa Fe Christian fought to a come-from-behind, 30-28 […]
Read More2012, Week 14: Monrovia, Then and Now
Will history repeat? Madison will play at Monrovia in the Division III State Bowl playoffs this week in the first playoff ever matching a San Diego Section team against one from the Southern Section. San Diego’s last playoff appearance as a member of the Southern Section was in 1959. San Diego High’s 53-0 victory over […]
Read More1945: Cavers No. 1 in Country Until…
The headline below screamed at the top of the lead sports page in The San Diego Union on Nov. 13, 1945. The Scholastic Statistical Bureau of New York, “which every week rates the performances of thousands of high school grid aggregations throughout the country,” selected coach Bill Bailey’s team as No. 1 in the country, according […]
Read More2012: Week 13, Fog, the Ubiquitous Companion
From the Nov. 24, 2012, UT-San Diego: –Writer John Maffei, at Mission Hills’ 42-17 victory over San Pasqual: “The fog was so thick that the Grizzlies and San Pasqual looked as if they were playing in clam chowder.” –Dennis Lin, at Lincoln’s 20-7 win over undefeated Olympian: “Looking like some shrouded figure stepping out of […]
Read More1943: Drink, you dirty Bum?
Not exactly modern hard rap, but school administrators weren’t amused when they heard students in the San Diego High cheering section “dissing” their Hoover counterparts. The Hilltoppers sung to the tune of an old Army field artillery ditty, “Over hill, over dale, we will hit the dusty trail…as those caissons go rolling along”. With apologies to Tom Ables, San […]
Read More1944: The “Temporary Suburbs”
Oct. 5 was bearing down on Kearny High football coach Darrell Smith. His team would play the first football game in school history, a night game no less, at Coronado High against the Islanders’ junior varsity. Problem. An important component of the Komets’ uniform was missing, caused by a delay in shipment by the manufacturer. […]
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