2018 Week 2: A 1…and a 2…and a 3, it’s San Clemente Time Again
San Clemente has become the Avocado League’s weathervane. La Costa Canyon, second ranked in this week’s Union-Tribune poll, will be the third Avo team in successive weeks to take on the Tritons, a respected Orange County entry just a few right or left turns and a modest hike up Interstate 5 from Oceanside (23 miles), Torrey […]
Read More1938-39: Coaches On Unlikely Hiatus
Metropolitan League coaches doubled as classroom or physical education teachers, began their school years with football practice in early September, jumped into winter basketball, and followed with baseball or track in the spring. That’s the way it was done at the area’s smaller schools. Year after year. So it was a little surprising when a […]
Read More2018 Week 1: 269 No Magic Number for Helix
How decisive was top-ranked Helix’ shocking, 43-3 defeat at San Bernardino Cajon last week? Two-hundred, sixty-nine games decisive. You have to go back to the third contest of the 1996 season, a 41-0 Highlanders loss to El Camino, to find a more conclusive result. Only four others in the school’s storied, 68-season, 691-game history—41-0 to […]
Read More2018 Week 0: Scots Try to Repeat; Have Tough Opener
Helix is number one, at least for the opening week. The Highlanders received 14 first-place votes and 262 points from the panel of 30 in the first Union-Tribune football poll coordinated by veteran prep honcho John Maffei. The Scots also were number one in the final 2017 vote: Rank Team 2017 Points Previous 1. Helix […]
Read More2018: Ray DeBolt Earned “First” Distinction
Ray DeBolt of Granite Hills, a new school at the east end of Madison Avenue in El Cajon, won the San Diego Section mile championship on May 27, 1961. The victory gave DeBolt, who passed away in the recent months in Reno, Nevada, at age 75, the distinction of being the first section champion in […]
Read More1937-38: Where’s The Shadow When We Need Him?
Mystery surrounds Hoover’s basketball season. Someone, call the Shadow. The mythical sleuth, introduced to American radio audiences early in the decade, had gained so much popularity that a movie “The Shadow Strikes” was released in 1937. The Shadow‘s alter ego Lamont Cranston, or more important, an enterprising newspaper reporter, would have determined why, after Hoover […]
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