- 2015: Hurdler Bob Fortin, Coach Morris Shepherd
Track standout Bob Fortin, 68, and Vista and Chula Vista head coach Morris Shepherd, 95, passed.
Fortin was one of top hurdlers in the San Diego Section and had a best time of :14.7 in the 120-yard high hurdles as a senior at Crawford in 1964.
“Snortin” Fortin, as he was affectionately known because of the guttural sounds Fortin made exerting ...
- 1937: Vexed Wex(ler) Pulls Plug
Escondido was penalized 15 yards before it participated in the kickoff or took a snap at the beginning of the second half of a Metropolitan League game at Grossmont.
Referee Charlie Smith, also the San Diego State baseball coach, penalized the Cougars for not being on the field and ready for kickoff after the 15-minute halftime.
Escondido ...
- 1965: Bennie Didn’t need Postseason Relief
Teams with losing records didn’t make the playoffs. Neither did some with winning records, or even the undefeated.
Only league champions were invited.
Four large school and two small school squads would make up the 1965 San Diego Section postseason.
Bennie Edens wasn’t playing “one game at a time.” He was looking a few weeks down the road ...
- 2015: Bill Van Leeuwen, Star on Aztecs’ Defense
Bill Van Leeuwen, a standout defensive lineman during some of the most successful years of the coach Don Coryell era at San Diego State, passed away June 10 in Wickenburg, Arizona.
Van Leeuwen, 66, was an undersized, cat-quick tackle in a 4-3 defensive alignment on the 1968 and ’69 Aztec teams that posted a combined record ...
- 2015: San Diegans Close With a Rush
Five bests in the state meet, nine in the season’s final two weeks and some competitive efforts in the finals at Clovis Buchanan High allowed area tracksters to finish on a strong note.
Weak in the flat races as compared to the rest of the state and with only one sprinter in the state’s Top 10, San Diego Section athletes still earned ...
- 2015: Gail Devers, Meet Dani Johnson
CLOVIS–Dani Johnson of Cathedral set two San Diego Section records and was part of another as area athletes qualified in 20 boys and girls events last night in trials of the 100th anniversary state track meet at Buchanan High.
Including double advancers Jordan Miller, Charles Lemford, and Suzie Acolatse, the section totaled 22 qualifiers for tonight’s finals.
Johnson, ...
- 2015: Morton, Gehring, Sam Edwards
Lance Morton, Rich Gehring, and Sam Edwards are among former San Diego prep athletes who recently passed away.
Morton, 81, a founder of the Brigantine Restaurant chain, was a second team all-City Prep League end on the 1951 Point Loma squad that finished with a 6-2 record, losing only to San Diego, 15-6, and La Jolla, 21-14, ...
- 2015: Marks, Weather Terrific in San Diego Section Track Finals
The stars shone in the afternoon yesterday as two meet records fell and seasonal bests were set or tied in 19 boys and girls events in the 55th San Diego Section track and field championships.
Perfect weather at the pristine Mt. Carmel facility made it a great day for the athletes and the aficionado.
It’s on to the state meet Friday ...
- 1934: The Brothers Nettles
Their story could have been inspiration for “The Grapes of Wrath,” because Bill Nettles and younger twin Wayne lived the life of John Steinbeck’s poor and displaced.
Teenagers, age 16, caught in the poverty of Oklahoma’s depression-era Dust Bowl, sought a way out.
With the spirit and optimism of youth, the youngsters decided to make their way West.
The twins ...
- 2015: San Diegans in State Track Top 10 (4)
If the state track meet were tomorrow, instead of in two weeks, San Diego Section girls would have a chance to win possibly three events. The boys, none.
In one of the most disappointing seasons in several years, San Diego girls are represented in seven of the 16 events in the state’s top 10 and the boys ...
- 2015: Morrison, Dobson Also Step Down
John Carroll’s retirement from Oceanside earlier this year has been followed by the departure of two other, successful, veteran San Diego Section coaches.
John Morrison, who took his 18 Francis Parker teams to 18 playoff berths, and Bill Dobson, whose 2011 team tied a Mountain Empire record for most wins in a season, also are leaving.
Other ...
- 1964: Bull Durham…er, Trometter!
Retired after an honored career in the Marine Corps, Robert E. (Bull) Trometter took a high school job.
Trometter could employ a figurative steel fist while upholding the meaning of semper fidelis (always faithful, always loyal) as head coach at the San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot in 1947-48, at Camp Pendleton in 1949, and at ...
- 1982: Montgomery Finally Takes Flight
John J. Montgomery High’s football history does not require an encyclopedic tome.
A few pages would be more than enough.
Most of those pages would be devoted to the 1982 season. Coach John DeVore’s Aztecs posted a 9-2 record, the best in their history and one of the few winning seasons since the Otay Mesa school opened ...
- 1932: “I Want to Play Football at San Diego High”
Coach Hobbs Adams was in his office a couple years before, finishing some paper work
during the quiet of the Christmas vacation break.
A strapping youngster walked into the school’s recently constructed gymnasium and found Adams at his desk.
The visitor told Adams he was from Texas and wanted to play football at San Diego High.
Adams was curious.
The coach ...
- 2014-15: Saints Can Look Ahead With Confidence
Wait till next year seems appropriate in San Diego Section basketball, according to the Cal-Hi Sports newsletter.
The Stockton-based publication is suggesting that St. Augustine could be a Top 20 team in the 2015-16 season.
That would be an accomplishment, since no San Diego squad finished in Cal-Hi Sports’ Top 20 this season.
St. Augustine was 23rd, Torrey ...
- 2015: Art Powell, Member of Legendary Family
Oakland Raiders managing general partner Al Davis spoke in 2006 about Art Powell, whom Davis signed out of the Canadian Football League years before.
“I wish I could take you back to 1963,” said Davis, “because I had one of the greatest receivers who have ever played this game. His first year for me, he carried ...
- 1931: Depression-Hit San Diego High Plays for Charity
The Star Spangled Banner became our national anthem, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion, the Empire State Building rose in Manhattan, the small community of Las Vegas voted to legalize gambling.
And 8 million Americans, at least 16 per cent of the work force, were on the street, out of work, and soon to be ...
- 2014-15: ‘Day Girls Save the Day
San Diego Section teams came home with one championship in the state basketball tournament, old reliable La Jolla Country Day’s girls winning in Division V, 40-36 over Palo Alto Eastside Prep.
The title was coach Terry Bamford’s fourth. The Torreys finished with an 18-11 record, not their best, but Bamford sees the big picture, schedules tough, and points ...
- 2015: San Diegans in State Top 10 (3)
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- 2015: San Diegans in State Track Top 10
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