- 1954: “A Play That Will Live in Infamy”
Hoover principal Floyd Johnson was thinking of making a change when he met with football coach Bob Kirchhoff before the 1954-55 school year.
Johnson was dissatisfied. A 1953 season that began with much promise was sullied by a 4-4-1 finish that included a 39-0 loss to rival San Diego High.
Johnson would retire after the 1955-56 school ...
- 2013: Kenny Hale, 90, Played and Coached Basketball
Kenny Hale, one of the last surviving members of San Diego State’s 1940-41 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics basketball championship team, passed away at age 90.
A 1938 San Diego High graduate, Hale eventually went into coaching and had winning records at Hoover and Mission Bay.
Led by superstar Bill McColl, Hoover was 20-8 in Hale’s first ...
- 2004: Another Championship Run for Oceanside
John Carroll got some good news the day before his Oceanside Pirates were to meet Carlsbad for what would be the title-deciding game in the Avocado League.
Coach John McFadden of Eastlake called Carroll and told the Oceanside mentor that Eastlake had used an ineligible player in the 23-19, season-opening victory over the Pirates.
Instead of an ...
- 2013: Some Locals Stood Out at Clovis
San Diego Section athletes in both genders stepped up in the Saturday finals of last week’s state track and field championships.
The college-like campus at Clovis’ Buchanan High was a wonderful venue for the 95th Boys’ championship and 40th Girls’ meet and drew more than 17,000 persons over two days.
Saturday’s finals began under a late-afternoon sun, ...
- 2013: Steve Brand’s Final Top 10
Includes State Meet, May 31-June 1.
BOYS
100—(Fully automatic) Brown (Valhalla) 10.76, Smith (Mount Miguel) 10.80, Ardis (La Costa Canyon) 10.81 (10.70w), S. Pater (Mt. Carmel) 10.83, Molton (Hilltop) 10.84, Doan (StA) 11.07 (10.84w, Lucas (Poway) 10.85 (10.78w), Lewis (San Marcos) 10.88, Le (Scripps Ranch) 10.93, McNair (Morse) 10.94, Mayberry (Francis Parker) 10.94. Southern California & State–Muhammad ...
- 2013: Cathedral Sophomore Chases Devers
CLOVIS—Twenty-one of San Diego’s 90 entries qualified yesterday for this evening’s 95th State track-and-field championships at Buchanan High.
In arguably a mediocre season for the San Diego Section, a strong season finish is possible.
The state meet is the event in which winning is not always more important than improving on a personal best or setting a ...
- 2013: Pat Shea, 73; Mission Bay and Chargers
Pat Shea, a starting right guard on the San Diego Chargers’ 1963 American Football League championship team and a legendary Mission Bay High athlete, passed away in Encinitas recently at age 73.
Shea won the 1958 CIF Southern Section heavyweight wrestling championship for the Buccaneers and was the ’58 City Prep League track championships shot put ...
- 2013: Steve Brand’s Track Top 10
As of May 26. *State qualifier. a–automatic timing. c–converted, yards to meters.
w–with wind.
BOYS
100—(Fully automatic) Brown (Valhalla) 10.76, Smith (Mount Miguel) 10.80, *Ardis (La Costa Canyon) 10.81 (10.70w), S. Pater (Mt. Carmel) 10.83, Molton (Hilltop) 10.84, *Lucas (Poway) 10.85 (10.78w), Lewis (San Marcos) 10.88, Le (Scripps Ranch) 10.93, McNair (Morse) 10.94, Mayberry (Francis Parker) 10.94. *Doan ...
- 2003: Havana, Si!
It was a San Diego Section football season, at once heart-warming and heart-breaking.
—Two teams played a game in Havana, Cuba.
—The “Cedar” fire, which began in the Laguna Mountains and threatened to burn to the ocean, destroyed hundreds of homes and killed 15 persons.
—Legendary coach Herb Meyer of El Camino retired after 45 seasons and 339 ...
- 2013: Steve Brand’s Track Top 10
(Reported as of May 19)
a–fully automatic. w–with wind. h–hand timed. c–converted.
BOYS
100—(Fully automatic) Brown (Valhalla) 10.76 (10.73aw), Smith (Mt. Miguel) 10.80, Ardis (La Costa Canyon), 10.81, S. Pater (Mt. Carmel) 10.83, Molton (Hilltop) 10.84, Lucas (Poway) 10.85, Lewis (San Marcos) 10.88, Le (Scripps Ranch) 10.93, McNair (Morse) 10.94, Mayberry (Francis Parker) 10.94. Southern California & State–Muhammad (Sherman Oaks ...
- 2013: NFL Goes For Highlanders, Mavericks
Helix and La Costa Canyon are among 17 U.S. high schools to have two players selected in the 2013 National Football League draft. Chandler, Arizona, led all high schools with three.
Boise State defensive back Jamar Taylor, in Round 2 by Miami, and Stanford tight end Levine Toilolo, in Round 4 by Atlanta, represented Helix. Oklahoma ...
- 2013: Next Up, San Diego Section Trials
Hot weather and hot tracksters are heating up the San Diego Section.
Twelve section bests were recorded in league finals last week and the real racing (and jumping, vaulting, and throwing) begins with the Section trials, an all-day carnival at Mt. Carmel High Saturday.
STATE MEET IS GOAL
Qualifiers move on to the section finals May 25 and ...
- 2013: Steve Brand’s Track Top 10
(Reported as of May 12, 2013)
a–fully automatic. w–with wind. h–hand timed. c–converted.
BOYS
100—(Fully automatic) Brown (Valhalla) 10.76, Smith (Mt. Miguel) 10.80, S. Pater (Mt. Carmel) 10.83, Molton (Hilltop) 10.84, Lucas (Poway) 10.85, Lewis (San Marcos) 10.88, McNair (Morse) 10.94, Le (Scripps Ranch) 10.94, Mayberry (Francis Parker) 10.94. Southern California & State–Muhammad (Sherman Oaks Notre Dame) 10.36aw ...
- 2013: Augie Escamilla, 90
Augustine (Augie) Escamilla, whose voice was heard at major track meets in San Diego for more than 30 years and who was a respected educator and coach for five decades, passed away on May 1 at age 90. A service will be held at Greenwood Mortuary on May 21.
Virtually every outstanding San Diego High or ...
- 1959: East and West San Diego
A town divided.
The City Prep League, founded in 1950, and which followed a smaller, 1930-32 alignment of the same name, was history.
Hoover, St. Augustine, San Diego, Lincoln and Crawford, schools located east of U.S. 395, became part of the new Eastern League.
Point Loma, Mission Bay, La Jolla, Kearny, and Clairemont, schools west of 395, represented ...
- 1959: Farewell, Southern Section!
San Diego had its own vision of manifest destiny. An inferiority complex, too.
Dr. Ralph Dailard, superintendent of the San Diego City Schools, announced on Sept. 22, 1959, that 15 area high schools were lined up to become members of the proposed San Diego Section of the California Interscholastic Federation.
Dailard said the schools were the nine ...
- 1959: Duane Maley Bows Out
This wasn’t the expected route of Duane Maley’s farewell tour.
San Diego High was 0-2 for the first time in 46 years.
Maley also was steaming at The San Diego Union sportswriter Jerry Magee and Maley’s boss, principal Lawrence Carr, was steaming at Maley.
Blunt and outspoken, Maley didn’t realize that reporter Magee was going to write exactly ...
- 1959: “Birt, Are You Crazy?”
Birt Slater’s sanity was in question.
Why would the handsome, charismatic Slater take the head coaching job at Kearny (three winning years in 15 seasons, all-time record, 45-66-7), when he could have had the San Diego High job when Duane Maley retired?
The answer wasn’t nearly as simple, but Slater eventually created his own powerhouse at this ...
- 2013: Komets’ Hall of Fame Recognizes Ed Imo, Others
Ed Imo is going into the Kearny Hall of Fame on Saturday, April 13, in a tribute most fitting for the anchor of perhaps the finest team in school history.
After a 6-6 tie with Sweetwater in the opening game, Kearny rolled to 12 consecutive victories and the San Diego Section championship.
Don Norcross was the quarterback ...
- 1959: St. Augustine Gets a Track and Field Home
One of St. Augustine’s vagabond teams finally was getting a home.
A 330-yard track and field oval would provide the Saints a facility for dual-meet, track-and-field competition beginning in 1960.
Football and baseball would still have to travel to games. Basketball teams had a home since a gymnasium/auditorium was constructed in time for the 1951-52 school year.
That ...
