1969: Cavemen Prove Merit With CIF Title Share
The result of the Eastern League’s vote to determine its champion after a three-way tie for first was considered by some so egregious that even the coach of a potential playoff opponent led the shouting. San Diego High was the selection of the league’s principals after the Cavemen finished with a 5-1 record, same as […]
Read More1938: Game Official is Short of First Downs
Not exactly the stuff of Agatha Christie, but mystery surrounded “The Missing First Downs”. La Jolla and Calexico engaged in a Southern California Lower Division playoff at La Jolla. The game ended in a 6-6 tie, but The San Diego Union reported the next day that the Vikings “won”, 7-6, and advanced to a championship […]
Read More1990: Was Morse The Number One Number One?
The narrative originally was posted on June 9, 2014. As far back as early season 1989, Morse coach John Shacklett was able to smile through a 2-2 start and a forfeit win, supported by a belief that the best was yet to come. This was after the Tigers had defeated Orange Glen, 31-28, for the […]
Read More1961: Grossmont Teams See The Light(s)
Modified Sportsmen race cars and the arrival of the San Diego Chargers may have saved night football in the hills and valleys east of San Diego. An unusual alliance. Grossmont School District teams, faced with an illumination problem, played many games on the infield of the dirt track oval near the Gillespie Field airport from 1958-66. New schools […]
Read More2000: New Century & New Faces
There wasn’t just a millennium going on. Wholesale league changes and the San Diego Section’s second annexation of schools in the Imperial Valley were creating a new landscape. What started in 1980 with the addition of Calipatria, Holtville, and Imperial, was completed after Blythe Palo Verde Valley, El Centro Central, Brawley, Calexico, El Centro Southwest, […]
Read More1999: Avocado League Avalanche
It only took 46 years. The population growth of San Diego’s North County coincided with the rise of the once small and remote Avocado League, founded in 1953. After recent years of ascendancy, a punctuation mark was added this season. As Tom Shanahan of The San Diego Union pointed out: –Five Avocado schools ranked in […]
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