2016 Week 3: Are Wildcats on Way Back?
El Camino was 58-81 through 2015 after Herb Meyer took his 339 career victories and walked into the coaching sunset in 2001. Jerry Ralph is the Oceanside school’s fourth coach since Meyer stepped down and may have the Warriors positioned to end a run of mediocrity. El Camino has had 4 winning seasons following Meyer, […]
Read More1984: What’s in a Name?
Grossmont School District superintendent Lewis Smith was one of the most ardent advocates of what could have been termed the “Free San Diego” movement in the late 1950s. Smith and other educational and school board associates wanted out of the vast Southern Section and were instrumental in formation of the tiny, 28-school San Diego Section […]
Read More2016 Week 2: Change Already at Top
Two things learned in Week 1: Helix might be less and St. Augustine might be more. The No. 1 Highlanders, ranked ninth in the state in Cal-Hi Sports’ preseason Top 25, was surprised, 28-21, by Timpview of Provo, Utah, in a home game that marked the debut of coach Robbie Owens. Timpview is no chump, with a […]
Read More2016 Week 1: First Poll Like Last; Coach Changes, Con’t
Helix and St. Augustine are 1-2 in the first Union-Tribune football poll and that’s how they finished in 2015. The Highlanders and most of the rest of the San Diego Section open the season this week, marking one the earliest starts in County history, probably preceded only by the Hawaii preseason trips that were popular a couple […]
Read More1915: Hilltoppers Have Their Field of Dreams
“City” Stadium, a horseshoe-shaped edifice with a declared 23,312 concrete seats, opened the previous spring in the back yard of San Diego High. Coincidentally, football fortunes improved on the Hilltop. Coach Clarence (Nibs) Price, 2-3-1 in his inaugural 1914 season, guided the school to its best record in the 23 years since the game was […]
Read More1917: Hilltoppers Learn it’s Difficult to Repeat
Uneasy rested the crown. San Diego High, anointed the best high school team in the country by a New York publication after the 12-0 campaign of 1916, experienced a season of highs and lows, emphasis on the latter. Coach Clarence (Nibs) Price, who started practice in September with news that his best player was “dangerously […]
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