2020: Bill Rainey, Crawford Football Star and CIF Track Champ
Bill Rainey left with a couple championships when he graduated from Crawford High in 1962 and went on to the University of Southern California. Rainey, who passed away recently at his home in Seattle, was the San Diego Section football player of the year in 1961 and also was the first San Diego Section track-and-field […]
Read More1981 Football: Population=New Leagues+New Names+More Games
The CIF board of managers passed a resolution at the end of the 1980-81 school year that resulted in the dividing of three leagues and the board-approved addition of a 10th regular-season game. Cause and effect was County population, which had grown to 1.8 million in the 1980 census, with almost 1 million in the city. […]
Read More2020: Winningest Active Coaches, Through 2019
Will there be a season? Even a truncated season with no playoffs and play restricted to league games will be cause for rejoicing, it says here. The state CIF is scheduled to make a decision July 20 on whether there will be games in the fall. Meanwhile, coaches and players wait. Active top 10 in […]
Read More2020: Veteran Coaches Move On, Others Move Up
Address changes and new names represent most of the news-making activity these days in the San Diego Section as it pushes on to a critical date and still looking for light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. The state CIF is scheduled to make a decision later in July on the 2020 future of […]
Read More1929: Coronado Steals Some Hilltoppers Thunder
San Diego High was on its fifth head coach in the last three seasons and found itself sharing headlines for the first time with a team not from Long Beach. Coronado High, across San Diego Bay, was flexing muscles. Controversy would follow. John Perry left coaching after the 1926 season and was succeeded by John […]
Read More1940: Firestorm Over Oceanside Transfers
Voices were raised, fists shook, and fingers pointed in a conference room at the downtown YMCA on Oct. 24 in  a dustup over eligibility involving players who notoriously became  known as the “Adopted Football Stars.” Metropolitan League principals and coaches held a special meeting to consider the status of two “sensational Oceanside athletes,” Jimmy Bender and […]
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