- 2012, Week 4: Vista’s 758th Game Like Only One Other!
This could become a habit. Vista won another 2-0 game.
The Panthers defeated Torrey Pines, with a safety the only score in the game last week.
It was the second safety-only game in the 758 Vista has played since the school opened in 1937. Not a trend, but the Panthers are working on it.
Vista last won 2-0 when it defeated ...
- 1986: Junior Seau, Wide Receiver?
There were no sonic booms and reveille still sounded at the usual time on the nearby Camp Pendleton military reservation after Roy Scaffidi announced he was moving senior quarterback Junior Seau to wide receiver.
That Seau also played a fine game at linebacker also did not register with a service rating the top players in the ...
- 2012, Week 3: Cancellations & Forfeits
At least five games have been canceled against San Diego Section teams this season and are being considered forfeited, not because of the usual Dreaded Administrative Glitch reasons of player academic ineligibility or residential transfer no-no’s.
Temecula Rancho Christian suspended its season and fired the head coach after a 43-6 loss to Whittier La Serna in ...
- 2012, Week 2: Helix Dominates
Coach Troy Starr’s Helix Highlanders received all 27 first-place votes for a maximum 270 points in the North County Times sportswriters-sportscasters poll after defeating Vista 43-7 last week.
Helix had 13 first-place votes in the preseason poll and 20 after games of Week 1.
The Highlanders take on a third, ranked opponent from the San Diego Section ...
- 2012, Week 1: Helix Lives Up to Preseason Poll
Helix’s 28-6 victory over Eastlake on the season’s opening weekend assured the Highlanders of remaining No. 1 in the North County Times sportswriters-sportscasters poll.
Helix had 13 first-place votes in the preseason poll last week and picked up seven more this week for a point total of 253.
Oceanside blew out Oakdale, a Northern California Division II ...
- 2012: New Coaches, Realignment Change Football Map
There are at least 21 new head coaches in the San Diego Section. More could be revealed as the season, which began Aug. 24 with Calvary Christian San Diego defeating visiting Las Vegas Calvary Chapel, 37-22, opens on a full scale this week.
A new league, the City, also makes a debut and changes have been ...
- 1939: Pointers Coach Has Scary Exit From Europe
War clouds across the Atlantic and a frightening moment on the high seas are what Charlie Wilson remembered most about 1939, when he was about to begin his second season as head coach at Point Loma.
Wilson toured Scandinavian countries with his wife and friends in the summer and sailed home from the port of Southampton, ...
- 1985: Is Vista The Best Ever?
Dick Haines would give you his opinion even if you didn’t ask for one.
So the veteran coach practically shouted his response to the obvious question after the Vista Panthers defeated Helix, 35-7, for the San Diego Section 3-A championship and a 13-0 season.
“Hell, yes, we’re the best team in the state!” Haines enthused. By far, ...
- 2012: Voters Choose Helix in North County Poll
Twenty-seven area media specialists selected Helix as the top team in the the North County Times’ first weekly San Diego Section football poll, according to Times writer John Maffei.
Helix received thirteen first place votes and 245 points overall, ahead of second-place Oceanside, which had 5 first-place votes and 229 points.
“The panel is comprised of prep ...
- 2012: History of the Metro Conference
Rick Smith recently wrote a guest article for the Metro Conference website.
“The Metro Conference governs the high schools in the Sweetwater Union High School District plus Mater Dei Catholic High School compete in 18 men’s, women’s and coed sports in the CIF San Diego Section in the cities of National City, Chula Vista, San Ysidro, ...
- 2010: Valley Center Knocks Down Giant
“Best game I’ve seen in ten years,” said veteran North County Times writer John Maffei.
Maffei was citing an unlikely but memorable matchup between Valley Center, a Division IV contender in the CIF San Diego Section, and Los Alamitos, a large, legendary figure and longtime seat of power in the Southern Section.
Los Al, sitting in northwest ...
- 1946: BMOCs and King Football
In the era following the World War II, the typical Big Man On Campus fit a profile:
Tall.
Good looking.
Athletic.
Star in sports.
Quarterback on the football team.
Acted in senior play.
Prom king.
San Diego High’s Gerald (Jerry) Dahms checked all boxes in this postwar, San Diego football era. And the era was about high school football, reflecting the optimism and ...
