1968 Track: Great Marks, But No Additional State Entries
The season was outstanding, perhaps the best ever overall in San Diego, but the section was a legislative loser. San Diego Section commissioner Don Clarkson made a request to the state CIF during a meeting in Berkeley the week of the state meet. Clarkson asked that his section be allocated three berths in each event […]
Read More1967 Track: Valencia’s National Lead Comes on Short Track
Sweetwater High was the site for several outstanding performances over the years in the National City Junior Chamber of Commerce Relays and other events of distance, usually in early March. Few of those individual or team marks were repeated or equaled, one of which drew the most attention and eventually called for surveyors and tape […]
Read More1947 Track: Barnard, Smith Win Southern California titles
Happy trails, Victory League. A bi-product of World War II, gasoline rationing, security scares, and travel restriction, the league served its purpose for four calendar years (search 1943: V is Key) as school bosses and students strived for normality. San Diego and Hoover, which joined teams in the Metropolitan League in1942 and again when the […]
Read More1946 Track: Balboa Stadium Site of Southern Section Championships
San Diego High, led by quartermiler Norman Stocks, sprinter-broad jumper Jimmy Barrera, hurdler Harry West, shot putter Joe Acevedo, and half-miler Harry Taylor, among others on a deep and talented squad, was in full force, posting an 8-0 record in dual meets, winner of 16 in a row, and 20-2 since Bill Patten became coach […]
Read More1966 Track I: Arnie Robinson and a Glimpse of the Future
Arnie Robinson was coming to the end of four brilliant seasons at Morse. Robinson high jumped 6-7, long jumped 24 feet, and won the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.8 in his last competition (see below) at the school on Skyline Drive in Encanto that Robinson watched open in September, 1962. The nephew of 1940s San […]
Read More1966 Track II: The Big 3, Tim, Doyle, and Terry
Tim Danielson, Terry Rogers, and Doyle Steel were state champions and would have been favored in their events if there were a prep national championship meet. Chula Vista’s Danielson, the second to better four minutes in the mile, was undefeated on the prep level the last two years and he competed nationally and internationally well […]
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