2017 Week 9: Musket Time for Helix, Grossmont
Grossmont probably wouldn’t recognize the musket trophy if it defeats Helix this week. The Foothillers (6-2) and Highlanders (7-1) meet for the 61st time in what is known as the battle of the musket, although there has been only carnage lately. Helix has won the last 19 meetings, by an average score of 39-10. Since […]
Read More2017:Â Tucker, Howard, Lipscomb, Tomlinson
Four outstanding athletes who graced the San Diego sports scene were among those who passed in the past months. HORACE TUCKER He was late reporting for football practice at San Diego High in 1952, because Tucker and teammate Floyd Robinson were involved with the American Legion Post 364 baseball team that was runner-up to a […]
Read More2017 Week 8: About Cavers, Hamamoto, Gilster, Saints
San Diego continued to impress; coaches moved on leaders in all-time victories, and St. Augustine rebounded. San Diego improved to 7-0 with a 34-7 over Kearny, which took a 6-0 record into the game, as big, fast Raiden Hunter rushed for 270 yards in 17 carries and scored two touchdowns. An impressive Central League turnout […]
Read More1948-49: No Games, Snow!
The dateline said San Diego, not somewhere in the High Sierra or North Dakota. Snow had forced postponement of two games. In the dead of winter a couple high school basketball contests in San Diego County were called off because of the flaky white stuff. Southern Prep League games sending Brown Military to Mountain Empire […]
Read More2017 Week 7: Big Week for Komets, Cavers
There was no Week 6 blog, with the attendant rankings from The San Diego Union, because we were celebrating my beautiful bride’s birthday on a seven-day cruise south, along the Mexican Riviera. I had a fat attack, unable to resist the relentless, daily, gastronomic temptations. There are several interesting games this week, two in particular: […]
Read More2017: They Made the NFL on Opening Day
Twelve former San Diego Section stars made the 32-team NFL rosters of 1,693 players at the start of the 2017 season. Thirteen made the list in 2016 and 15 in 2015. Helix was one of 40 schools with 3 players active. St. Thomas Aquinas of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, had 12, followed by Long Beach Poly […]
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