1946 Baseball: Morrow is Back and so are Hilltoppers
Dewey J. (Mike) Morrow, a University of California at Berkeley graduate from Montana, returned from the war to San Diego High and coached the Hilltoppers to his eighth CIF Southern Section championship in Morrow’s 16 seasons and first since 1939. Writer Norrie West of the Evening Tribune said of Morrow’s return: “Not a soul will […]
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 Baseball II: Strom’s Rubber Arm Leads Cavers to Title
San Diego’s surprising, late-season ride on the left arm of pitcher Brent Strom resulted in the Cavers’ first major championship since they won the Southern Section title in 1952. And it was to be the Cavers’ last, ending a run that began with a state championship in 1918. Changing demographics, new schools, new neighborhoods, revised […]
Read More1966 Baseball I: Cardinals to Honor Ted Williams With New Ball Yard
On March 21 the Hoover student body announced a fund-raising drive for a new baseball facility, Ted Williams Field, in honor of the January, 1937, graduate and major league baseball Hall of Fame inductee. For years the Cardinals played home games in the school’s football stadium, with a rightfield fence, beyond the track, a Little […]
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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