2021 Week 0: Back to the Future
Call it a return to (the new) normal. Football is back in real football time, but the Covid still looms, with the likelihood of canceled games and quarantines. And the pandemic, which reduced the 2020 season to an abbreviated schedule of 2021 spring games, probably was a factor in the turnover of coaches. There will […]
Read More2020 Weeks 4-6: Strangest Season is a Wrap
The world pandemic almost brought the San Diego Section to its knees, but the governing athletic body survived, thanks to determined coaches, players, and administrators.           Thirteen of the 96 schools fielding varsity teams were able to play a maximum six games, as mandated by the […]
Read More2020 Week 5: Cathedral at Top of Final Poll
The San Diego Union-Tribune‘s final football poll in shortened season. First place votes in parenthesis. Points on scale of 10 points to 1 point. RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS 1. Cathedral 5-0 170 1 2. Carlsbad 5-0 153 2 3. Mission Hills 5-0 136 3 4. Lincoln 4-1 105 7 5. La Jolla 5-0 102 […]
Read More2020 Week 2: Tough Going at Point Loma
Point Loma canceled its season, hours after the story below was published. Joel Allen, who quarterbacked Christian to a Division IV championship in 2002 and created a brilliant coaching record at The Bishop’s (11 seasons, 100-39-1 record, .739 winning percentage) had stepped down. Allen was going to go into business with his brother and was […]
Read More2020 Week 3: Cathedral No. 1 Here, No. 7 in California
Comparisons are building for Cathedral. The Dons are a unanimous No. 1 in The San Diego-Union-Tribune poll and seventh for the second week in a row in the respected Cal-Hi Sports ratings. At No. 7, Cathedral is at its highest level in the Cal-Hi eye test rankings since the 2016 club finished fifth. Coach Sean […]
Read More2020: Active coaches with 50 or more wins through 2019
Football season is just beyond the horizon in this chaotic year, but many coaches are actively preparing for a January start (in the usual basketball season), including those who have reached 50 victories in their San Diego Section football careers. Earlier postings listed the Top 10 active football coaches in victories, and the all-time Top […]
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