2012, Week 10: 60, Yes, 60, Teams Win Playoff Bids
Oceanside won the regular-season poll and could end up meeting No. 2 Helix in the AA finals at Escondido High in four weeks. And dust is kicking up in the sand dunes around Glamis as the Imperial Valley girds a for a possible second-round meeting of two area big shots. Brawley (9-1) has a first-round bye in […]
Read More1943: V is Key
The most important letter in the alphabet was V. World War II was nearing the halfway point. The dark days of early 1942 had receded and Victory, while not in sight, would come. V had become a symbol, visible everywhere throughout the country. There were hundreds of references, from military training programs (V-12), to graphics […]
Read More1987: In Year of Pointers, Panthers Point Fingers
“Elevator! Elevator! We got the shaft!” The age-old shout from unhappy cheering sections, usually directed at game referees, was leveled by head coach Dick Haines and Vista partisans at nine coaches charged with seeding and selecting teams for the San Diego Section playoffs. The mentors, reportedly by an 8-1 vote, nominated San Dieguito as the […]
Read More2012, Week 9: Julian Wins Barnburner
You could call it the “Battle of Banner Grade.” Or, as the father of the Julian coach says, “It’s kind of a Cal-Stanford Big Game.” Coach Tim White, the son of University of California alum and legendary San Diego Chargers lineman Ed White, guided his Julian Eagles to two touchdowns in the final four minutes and then […]
Read More2012, Week 8: Twice in 102 Years for Army-Navy!
The chapter on football would be very brief in the history of the Army and Navy Academy and its history goes back to 1910. They turn out soldiers and sailors at the boarding school on Highway 101 in Carlsbad. So old and new Warriors have snapped to attention. Coach Frank Henry’s Cadets improved their season […]
Read More2012, Week 7: Oceanside Rolling
Oceanside held sway for the fifth consecutive week in the renamed U-T San Diego poll of sportswriters and sportscasters. The San Diego newspaper recently acquired the North County Times, which created the poll. John Carroll’s Oceanside Pirates routed Vista 44-0 in a game that was played in less than two hours because of a running […]
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