Nick Barkett was determined to improve his lot in the Hoover basketball program after serving as the fifth of five guards on the 26-2 team of the 1959-60 Cardinals.

“He lived at Muni Gym all Summer with (John) Bocko,” remembered Cardinals coach Charlie Hampton.

Barkett and Bocko spent many days, and evenings, in the vintage emporium, Bocko preparing for his college career at San Diego City College and Fresno State, and Nick striving to take his game to a higher level and earn a starting role in his senior year at Hoover.

Barkett, who passed away recently at age 81, did not just improve.  He etched his name in the lore of Hoover’s great basketball history.

The skinny, 6-foot guard became a lean, almost 6-foot 2-inch forward and led the 1960-61 Cardinals to a 24-3 record and the first San Diego Section championship. Nick also was the first CIF San Diego Section Section player of the year, scoring 356 points for a 13.2 average.

Barkett was a starter on the 25-5 San Diego City College squad that was runner-up to Fresno City in the 1962-63 state junior college championship game and he started for two seasons at Cal Poly-Pomona.

Forty-six flag teams, many with quickly organized, short schedules, played a total of about 325 games in the inaugural 2023 season. The 2024 season, with 72 teams and a potential full schedule of 20 in the regular season, plus two dozen playoff jousts, the total should surpass 700 games. The  schedule continues to grow.

Most of the 26 new squads are from North County, including all 5 from Poway Unified (Del Norte, Poway, Mt Carmel, Rancho Bernardo, Westview). Other added large schools include Carlsbad, Escondido, La Costa Canyon, Mission Hills, San Marcos, Oceanside, Ramona,  and Vista.

See the Flag Teams page for a complete list of San Diego Section entries.

CIF-RELATED ISSUES

Now 24 versus 20 minutes per half and a 7-second passing clock; if ball is not thrown or touched by another player, the play is dead. As previous, no blocking downfield, only behind the line-of-scrimmage, and really just ‘obstructing’ since no contact is allowed. It’s up to the defender to avoid a stationary ‘blocker’. Similarly, a ‘tackler’ cannot obstruct a runner to grab a flag. The most allowed contact is some hand-fighting for a pass.

Full CIF Rules here, with 2024 changes and clarifications highlighted in red. The rule book is more than 10 pages.

With more games and a possible short officiating crew issue, a solution is multiple games per day, per site with multiple teams. Last weekend a showcase of 5 games with 10 teams, in one long day, demonstrated this ‘tournament’ style plan.

To date, most league affiliations are unpublished  beyond the 3 listed below. Division (I, II, or more) groupings also are unavailable.

Playoffs begin November 11, with the local champions crowned 11/21-23. No mention of further regional playoff participation.

CONFERENCES, AS OF AUG. 22, 2024

Avocado: Carlsbad, El Camino, La Costa Canyon, Mission Hills, San Dieguito, San Marcos
Palomar: Canyon Crest, Del Norte, Mt Carmel, Oceanside, Poway, Rancho Bernardo, Westview
Valley: Escondido, Ramona, Rancho Buena Vista, Sage Creek, San Pasqual, Vista

Henrik Jonson, Web Master

 

 

The hand shake was a vise grip.

I first shook that hand in September, 1964, when Eddie Olsen was hired to manage the Billiard Den, a trendy, new watering hole and pool parlor at 58^th Street and El Cajon Blvd.

I last saw Eddie months before he passed recently at age 89 and the handshake had not lost any of its strength. That was a reflection of Olsen, direct, sometimes blunt, but always honest.

He left with a legion of friends from an almost lifetime of baseball.

ORGINALLY A PADRE

Olsen was in the game from as a pre-teen serving as a ball boy and bat boy and working in the clubhouse for the Pacific Coast League San Diego Padres.

He played baseball for coach Walt Harvey at La Jolla High and earned all-Southern California second team honors as a first baseman and occasional pitcher. The 1953 Vikings ousted San Diego High for the City Prep League championship and advanced to the CIF finals, bowing to Compton, 5-2, and posting a 24-4 record.

Eddie played professional baseball for seven years and served a stint in the Marine Corps before going into coaching, first at Morse High, then as head coach for nine seasons at El Capitan High.

Olsen moved in 1982 to Grossmont College, where his teams posted a 516-373-7 record in 22 seasons before he retired in 2004.  He was inducted into the California Community College Baseball Association Hall of Fame in 2008.

The San Diego Section’s 65^th season opens this week with the usual fare of nonleague games, intersectionals, and interstates.

Five interesting matchups:

CARLSBAD @LAKEWOOD.

Lancers coach Thadd MacNeal will return to where he had a very successful program in the Long Beach Poly-dominated, Southern Section Moore League, posting a 41-19 record from 2006-10, including 21-4 in his last two seasons.

Why leave Lakewood?

MacNeal is a 1989 Carlsbad graduate. He replaced the retiring Bob McAllister in 2011.  The Lancers have done well on MacNeal’s watch, 96-48 overall and 46-6 since 2019.

LONG BEACH ST. ANTHONY @MOUNT MIGUEL

The Saints have not met a San Diego team since 2000, when Marian (renamed Mater Dei in 2007) visited and won, 35-6.

St. Anthony, which opened in 1920, is 7-5 vs. local teams, beginning with a 13-6 loss to St. Augustine in 1935. The two Saints were aligned in the Southland Catholic League from 1945-50.

The St. Anthony Saints beat San Diego High, 20-12, in the first round of the 1948 playoffs as CIF player-of-the-year and future NFL running back Johnny Olszewski rushed for 187 yards and two touchdowns.

Brandon Arrington, who transferred from Helix in time last year to become a double sprint winner in the state track meet, is on the Matadors’ squad.

Torrey Pines vs. Bethlehem Freedom, Pennsylvania, @Staten Island, N.Y., Tottenville.

Freedom is the “home” team, 75 miles from its campus north of Philadelphia.

SAN LUIS OBISPO MISSION PREP @SANTA FE CHRISTIAN

San Diego teams have played Central Coast Section squads in the state playoffs — Scripps Ranch 31, Santa Clara Wilcox 28, in 2021—and Helix won a regular-season game, 45-21, at Mountain View St. Francis in 2023, and plays the Lancers here in Week 2.

The Royals and Eagles are scheduled to kick off at 3 p.m. Friday, meaning Mission Prep, facing a 305-mile trip, likely would leave on Thursday and guessing could stick around Saturday and go to the Zoo… catch the pandas!

‘Prep, with lineage back to 1875, will face one of the San Diego Section’s most successful schools. Eagles coach Jon Wallace embarks on his 13^th season in Solana Beach and is 81-41 (.664).

LAS VEGAS ARBOR VIEW, @LINCOLN

The Aggies were only 4-6 in ’23 but are ranked third in the Nevada preseason poll, behind Bishop Gorman and Henderson Liberty.

Lincoln is Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ state-ranked No. 9 team and quarterback Akili Smith, Jr., son of the former Hornet and NFL veteran, have become a power under coach David Dunn, 94-58-1 since 2011.

COACHING CAROUSEL

SCHOOL	IN	OUT
Bonita Vista	Jay Hernandez	Tyler Arciaga
Brawley	Lawrence Landy	Rick Rubio & Ray Vandiver
Calexico Vincent Memorial	David Wong & Fernando Santana
Castle Park	Arrien Smith	Paco Silva
Coastal	Stephen Patton	Glen Henton
El Cajon Valley	James Simon	Nick Osborn
Francis Parker	D.J. Walcott	Stephen Cooper
Mabel O’Farrell	Bruce Newland	Jake Passot
Mater Dei Catholic	Rashard Cook	John Joyner
Mountain Empire	Ben Gooding	Bernard Vann
Orange Glen	Santiago Rocha	Tido Smith
Point Loma	Ryan Price	Joel Allen
Poway	Brandon Harris	Kyle Williams
Rancho Buena Vista	Terrence McKinney	Shane Graham
Rock Academy	Ben Jameson	Rali Schwartz
St. Augustine	Ron Caragher	Ron Gladnick
Sweetwater	Brandon Burris	Ervin Hernandez

LEAGUE CHANGES

SCHOOL	TO	FROM
Bonita Vista	South Bay	Metro Mesa
Chula Vista	Metro Mesa	Metro Pacific
Classical Academy	Pacific	Coastal
Coastal Academy	Sunset	Ocean
Coronado	Central	City
Escondido Charter	Pacific	Coastal
Francis Parker	Pacific	Coastal
Mabel O’Farrell	Sunset	Pacific
Maranatha Christian	Sunset	Pacific
Mission Bay	Eastern	City
Morse	City	Eastern
Mount Miguel	Grossmont Hills	Grossmont Valley
Mountain Empire	Sunset	Pacific
Point Loma	Western	Eastern
Rock Academy	Sunset	Pacific
Santana	Grossmont Valley	Grossmont Hills
Scripps Ranch	Eastern	City
Sweetwater	Metro Mesa	Metro South Bay
Tri-City Christian	Sunset	Pacific
University City	Eastern	Western
Victory Christian	Freelance	Ocean
West Hills	Grossmont Valley	Grossmont Hills

San Diego produced three state champions, the most since 1929.

David Russell of Patrick Henry won the boys’ 100 (:09.61) and 220 (20.97 with 2.2 wind, over the allowable 2.0), and the Crawford girls’ 440 relay squad of Danita Young, Judy Reed, Jewell Lovelady, and Katie Gaston, set a national record, :46.14.

Forty-eight years before San Diego High had won the state championship in the Los Angeles Coliseum with four individual winners:  Jimmy Willson, 100 and 220 (:09.8 and :21.4, and the last time there had been a double sprint champion from the border city); Irvine (Cotton) Warburton, 440 (:49.6), and Bill Miller, pole vault (12-6).

Russell stayed in his blocks through three false starts in the 100 and then raced away from the field and runner-up Ivan Cleveland of Pasadena, who ran :09.74.

Electronic time for sprints is about .24 hundredths slower than hand time, meaning Russell probably covered the distance in :09.4, according to previous methods.

Russell, not ready for prime time, with two disappointing efforts in the 1976 state trials in Berkeley, again jumped the field in the 220 and outpaced Pasadena’s favored James Sanford, who had won the 440 in :46.6 just minutes before but was second in :21.24.

Russell had become a fan favorite among the 16,200 at UCLA’s Drake Stadium.

Gambling is de rigueur at big, or small, track meets and fans showed their appreciation, showering the surprised Russell with a fistful of money as he took a “victory lap” through a section of the stands.

VERY FAST COLTS

Danita Young, Judy Reed, and Jewell Lovelady gave anchor Katie Gaston space in the 440 relay. Compton Centennial, with future (1984) Olympian 4×100 relay member Jeannette Bolden anchoring, closed fast but was second in :46.42.

5/4/77

An anticipated 440 race between Patrick Henry’s David Russell (:49.2) and San Diego’s Danny Stewart (:49.9) didn’t materialize.

Russell won the 100 (:09.7) and anchored a :42.6 440 relay win.  Stewart was headed to a personal best but cramped in the stretch and settled for a :50.6 victory.

The Patriots settled for a 98-36 Eastern League dual-meet win.

5/5/77

—Danita Young of Crawford ran the 100 in :10.8 in the Crawford girls’ 83-21 win over Clairemont. Mike Brown clocked :09.8 in the 100 in a meet the day before in the Colt boys’ 89 ½-46 ½ victory.

5/6/77

—Alex Williams high jumped 6-6 ¾ and triple jumped 44-1 1/2 in El Camino’s 82-54 win over Torrey Pines.

—Howard Wickham of Bonita Vista ran the 300 low hurdles in :38.9, fastest time in the County, and took the 100 in :10.3 in the Barons’ 98-37 cruise against Mar Vista.

—Randy Wagner’s wind-aided :14.5 in the 120 high hurdles took the County lead and Hilltop posted a 73-63 win over favored Castle Park, which found solace in Charles Kathan’s wind-aided :09.7 100 and :22.2 220.

—Randy Wallace’s 6-6 ¾ high jump in Grossmont’s 75-61 win over Santana bettered the school record of 6-6 by Bill Jones in 1961.

5/10/77

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE TRIALS, @SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE

Harlow Naase won 100 and 220 heats in :09.7 and :21.7 and his Castle Park teammate Charles Kathan doubled in :09.8 and :21.9.

Naase was asked by Nick Canepa of the Evening Tribune about a potential race against Patrick Henry’s David Russell, unbeaten this year: “I’m certainly not in awe of Russell.  As far as I am concerned he’s just another guy. Now if he were out running :09.3s and :09.4s I might be in awe.”

—Bonita Vista’s Laura Nagel’s :14.5 was fastest of the year in the 110 hurdles in the City Conference Girls Trials in Balboa Stadium.

Crawford’s Danita Young and Judy Reed tied at :10.9 in the 100.  The Colts ran :47.5 in the 440 relay and Jewell Lovelady led long jumpers at 18 feet, 1 inch.

GROSSMONT LEAGUE TRIALS, @EL CAPITAN

Ken Pole of El Capitan put the shot 59 feet, 2 inches and Matt Gauthier of Valhalla followed at 57-7.

—Marc Keller of Helix ran a 4:21.9 mile.  Carol Keller, Mark’s sister, logged a 5:12.8, with Cheryl Flowers of Valhalla trailing in 5:20.5.

5/11/77

CITY CONFERENCE (EASTERN & WESTERN LEAGUES) TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

David Russell, citing a sore leg, eased to a :09.8 100 but blazed a :21.2 220, while Patrick Henry teammate Kipperr Bell turned in :09.9 and :21.7 times.

—Six ran :50.6 or better in the 440, led by the :49.6 of San Diego’s Danny Stewart and six timed at least 1:59.3 in the 880 led by the 1:56.8 of Morse’s Richard Wheeler.

—Lincoln and Crawford each ran :42.5 in the 440 relay, Morse :42.7, San Diego :43.1.  Morse came in at 3:20.5 in the mile relay, San Diego at 3:23.3.

—James Shine of San Diego ran a :09.9 100 and took the long jump at 23-7 ½.  Nine others made at least 22-0 1/2.

—Team favorite Patrick Henry was disqualified for a lane violation in the 440, keeping with an Eastern League tradition of baton-changing mishaps.

5/13/77

GROSSMONT LEAGUE FINALS, @EL CAPITAN

Sophomore Cheryl Flowers of Valhalla set a County record of 5:01.78 in the mile, defeating Helix’ Carol Keller, who returned the favor, beating Flowers with a record 11:08.2 in the two-mile.

Second-place times were 5:10.4 in the mile for Keller and 11:26.8 in the long race for Flowers.

—Carol Keller’s brother Marc doubled in the mile (4:19.1) and two-mile (9:27.8).

—Matt Gauthier won a shot put battle with El Capitan’s Ken Pole when Gauthier, coming from behind, pushed the 12-pound ball 59 feet, 8 ¾ inches, on his last try. Pole reached 59-5 ½.

Gauthier whirled the discus to the third longest distance in County history, 191-2, behind only Mount Miguel’s Billy Joe Winchester, 195-8 in 1970, and El Cajon Valley’s Mark Malone, 192-6 in 1976.

—Helix’ Mike Durden won the 440 in :50 and El Capitan’s Robert Klemmer pole vaulted 14 feet.

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE FINALS, @SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE

Harlow Naase won the sprint duel with Castle Park teammate Charles Kathan, running :09.8 in the 100 and :21.9 in the 220.  Kathan was second in :09.9 and :22.3.

—Bonita Vista sophomore Mike (Ace) Adkins won the 440 in :49.8 and Rick Krueger took the 880 in 1:58.4. The Barons won the mile relay in 3:24.6 and were team champions, outscoring runner-up Castle Park, 71-39.

—Billy Wagner of Hilltop doubled in the hurdles, :14.8 in the 120 highs and a County-leading :38.3 in the 330 lows.

—Debbie Wilford of Castle Park long jumped a County-leading 19-2.

5/14/77

CITY CONFERENCE (EASTERN AND WESTERN LEAGUES) FINALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Glenn Vieira of Madison pole vaulted 14-4 to break a 13-year-old County record of 14-3 ¼ by Lincoln’s Vic Montano in 1964.

—A Morse foursome of Donald Guillory (:49.4), Terrell Williams (50.6), Richard Wheeler (:49.6) and sophomore Tony Banks (:48.4) ran 3:18.0, third fastest mile relay in County history.

Lincoln ran 3:15.5 in 1968 and Morse 3:16.8 in 1974.

—The 9:09.7 two-mile by Kearny’s Ricky Perez bettered the record of 9:11.6 by Kirk Pfeffer of Crawford in 1974.

AVOCADO CONFERENCE TRIALS, @ESCONDIDO

Dokie Williams of El Camino led qualifiers in the long jump at 23-10 ½.  Teammate Craig Montgomery was the triple jump leader at 47-1/2.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE FINALS

Christian won nine of 14 events and repeated as team champion with 190 points.  Army-Navy, with 89, and Mountain Empire, with 84, followed.

5/16/77

AVOCADO LEAGUE FINALS, @VISTA

Vicky Belser was excelling on her home turf.

The Panthers’ senior won the 100-yard dash in :10.8, the 220 in :25, and the discus with a toss of 125-7.

Postponed twice because of rain, league athletes competed on a dry track amid a chilling wind.

“My start has been terrible,” said Belser, who revealed that she competes in the sprints in starting blocks but  from a standing position.

—El Camino’s Craig Montgomery leaped 47-8 ½ to win the triple jump, edging Dokie Williams’ brother Alex, who bounded 47-2 ½.

Dokie Williams, apparently ailing, did not participate and was byed into the San Diego Section trials.

5/21/77

SAN DIEGO SECTION TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Crawford girls Danita Young, Judy Reed, Jewell Lovelady, and Katie Gaston stunned the crowd when they blazed the 440 relay.

A few moments later, track announcer Augie Escamilla, uttered his trademark, “Listen to this one, ladies and gentlemen!” and told the gathering that the Colts had just set a national record of :46.6.

Crawford bettered the :46.7, set a couple weeks earlier in the Texas state meet by Fort Worth Trimble Tech.  The Colts also shattered the San Diego Section record of :48.4 by Point Loma in 1976.

Crawford had run :47.6, :47.3, and :47 earlier and Danita Young was asked if the foursome felt the pressure.

“We’re always being pressed—by the clock,” said the 17-year-old junior, who also won a 220 heat in :24.4—The Crawford boys’ :42.4 also was No. 1 in the 440 relay. Morse ran 3:17.6 in the mile relay.

—Patrick Henry’s David Russell, concerned about balky hamstrings, won his 100 trial in :09.8 and then his :21 bettered Russell’s and Elijah Jefferson’s mark of :21.1 in the 220.

5/28/77

Morse, by winning the mile relay in 3:19.7 (“We won it with our passes,” said coach Jim Cerveny), with 27 points, outlasted Patrick Henry (23) and El Camino (23), for the team championship.

Crawford, with 45 points, won the girls’ team championship, topping Vista’s 34.

Two boys meet records (*) and seven girls meet records were set or tied (+):

17^TH SAN DIEGO SECTION FINALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK
100	Russell	Patrick Henry	:09.7
220	Russell		:21*
440	Banks	Morse	:48.1
880	Krueger	Bonita Vista	1:54.8
Mile	Harlan	University	4:18.2
Two-Mile	M. Keller	Helix	9:09.5
120 High Hurdles	Wilford	Castle Park	:14.5
330 Low Hurdles	Brown	Poway	:38
440 Relay		Castle Park	:42.3
Mile Relay		Morse	3:19.7
High Jump	Wallace	Grossmont	6-8
Long Jump	D. Williams	El Camino	22-11
Triple Jump	D. Williams		50-4 ½*
Shot Put	Gauthier	Valhalla	57-10 1/4
Discus	Gauthier		171-8
Pole Vault	Vieira	Madison	14

 4^th GIRLS SAN DIEGO SECTION FINALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK
100	Young	Crawford	:10.8+
220	Belser	Vista	:24.5
440	Fulton	Bonita Vista	:57.1*
880	Proulx	El Cajon Valley	2:15.8
Mile	Flowers	Valhalla	5:01.1*
Two-Mile	C. Keller	Helix	10:54.8*
110 Hurdles	Alexander	Crawford	:14.9*
440 Relay		Crawford	:46.7
Mile Relay		Bonita Vista	3:55.6*
High Jump	McNeal	Carlsbad	5-9*
Long Jump	Lovelady	Crawford	18-6 1/4
Shot Put	Nunn	Vista	39-6
Discus	Belser	Vista	126-1

6/3/77

59^TH BOYS STATE TRACK TRIALS, DRAKE STADIUM, @UCLA

EVENT	MARK	NAME	SCHOOL	PLACE
100	:09.69	Russell	Patrick Henry	2nd
	—	Bell		—
220	:21.24	Russell		2nd
	Scratched	Bell		—
440	:48.77	Banks	Morse	8th
	:49.02	Stewart	San Diego	10th
880	1:54.4	Krueger	Bonita Vista	7T
	1:56.4	Brown	Poway	16th
Mile	—	Harlan	University	—
	—	Miller	Point Loma	—
120 High Hurdles	:15.07	Wagner	Hilltop	22nd
	—	Wilford	Castle Park	—
330 Hurdles	—	Wagner		—
	—	Brown	Poway	—
440 Relay	—		El Camino	—
	—		Castle Park	—
Mile Relay	3:16.9		Morse	6th
	—		San Diego	15T
High Jump	6-4	Rakestraw	Torrey Pines	18T
	6-4	Wallace	Grossmont
Long Jump	23-8 1/4	D. Williams	El Camino	6th
	21-8 ½	Sivadge	Granite Hills	19th
Triple Jump	47-10	D. Williams		5th
	43-7 3/4	Kiruhi	Grossmont	19th
Shot Put	57-6 ¼	Pole	El Capitan	7th
	56-4 ¾	Gauthier	Valhalla	12th
Discus	160-04	Gosnell	San Dieguito	10th
	159-11	Gauthier	Valhalla	11T
Pole Vault	13-9	Vieira	Madison	14T
	13-3	Kennedy	Fallbrook	18T

3^rd GIRLS STATE TRACK TRIALS, @DRAKE STADIUM, UCLA

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Reed	Crawford	:11.23	9th
	Young		:11.24	10th
220	Belser	Vista	:24.5	4T
	Young		:25.13	8th
440	Eastern	Crawford	:59.7	19th
	Fulton	Bonita Vista	:60.5	25th
880	Gerdes	Chula Vista	2:21.6	16th
	Proulx	El Cajon Valley	2:25.2	20th
MILE	Bohan	Madison	5:04.4	9th
	Flowers	Valhalla	5:04.7	11th
110 Hurdles	Alexander	Crawford	:14.8	10T
	Perkins	Helix	—	—
440 Relay		Crawford	:46.9	1st
		Morse	:48.2	4th
Mile Relay		Crawford	3:55.6	6th
		Bonita Vista	4:00.5	12th
High Jump	McNeal	Carlsbad	5-5	1T
	Stafford	Clairemont	5-2	14T
Long Jump	Lovelady	Crawford	19-1 ¼	2nd
	Wilford	Castle Park	18-8 ¼	8th
Shot Put	Nunn	Vista	38-4¾	18th
	McBride	Vista	36-2	20th
Discus	Herse	Patrick Henry	117-06	10th
	Belser	Vista	117-03	11th

6/4/77

59^th BOYS STATE TRACK FINALS, @DRAKE STADIUM, UCLA

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Russell	Patrick Henry	:09.61	1st
220	Russell		:20.97w	1st
440	Stewart	San Diego	:48.77	6th
880	Krueger	Bonita Vista	1:59.7	9th
Two Miles	Perez	Kearny	9:10.7	8th
	Keller	Helix	9:33.1	18th
Mile Relay		Morse	3:16.4	6th
Long Jump	D. Williams	El Camino	22-9	8th
Triple Jump	D. Williams		51-0 ½	1st
Shot Put	Pole	El Capitan	58-4 ½	8th

6/4/77

4^th GIRLS STATE TRACK FINALS, @DRAKE STADIUM, UCLA

EVENT	NAME	SCHOOL	MARK	PLACE
100	Young		:10.84w	5th
220	Belser	Vista	:24.67	5th
	Young		:25.54	9th
Mile	Flowers		4:55.7	3rd
Two Miles	Keller	Helix	10:44.6	3rd
	Crumly	Hilltop	—	—
440 Relay		Crawford	:46.14	1st
		Morse	:47.88	3rd
Mile Relay		Crawford	3:53.6	2nd
Discus	Dolsby	Monte Vista	117-05	9th
	Herse	Patrick Henry	112-11	10th

 

 

 

Dallas Evans , who passed away recently, was a star end on the 1953 San Diego High football  team, a sub 49-second quarter-miler at San Diego State, and a coach and teacher more  than 30 years in the South Bay area.

Dallas earned all-City Prep League honors on the 7-3 San Diego team that won the CPL championship.  Evans scored six touchdowns, tied for third on the team in scoring  to Horace Tucker’s 40, Ermon Johnson’s 38, and with Floyd Robinson’s 36.

The Hillers lost to Anaheim, 21-7, in the 1953 Southern Section playoffs.

The jovial Evans was head track coach at St. Augustine High in 1962, when the Saints featured James Moore, one of the San Diego Section’s top 440 runners, with a best time of :49.5.

Dallas coached many years with Ed Teagle at Mar Vista, which dominated Metropolitan League dual meet teams.

Brother Steve Evans, was a star on the Hoover basketball and baseball teams from 1955-57.