2017 Week 5: Helix Defender Near Top of List
Opinions are like a certain area of the anatomy. Most of us have one. The opinion of Scouts.com, which maintains a running list of who’s who in high school football and who is being recruited by whom, is that the following table is indicative of the probable 10 best players in the San Diego Section. […]
Read More2017 Week 4: U. City, Mira Mesa Enjoying Ride
How significant is 4-0? Depends on your perspective. Nice, but, hey, we’re used to being there, would be the reaction from Mission Hills, Calexico Vincent Memorial, Christian, Crawford, El Centro Southwest, San Marcos, and Calvin Christian. All of those teams have reached the above juncture at least once since 2013. Madison, La Costa Canyon, and […]
Read More1959-60: Pointers Prevail After Others Falter
San Diego was leaving the Southern Section at the end of the school year but was going out with an unprecedented show of force. Hoover was ranked No. 1 and Helix No. 2 in seeding for the 32-team major playoffs. Glendale, beaten by both Hoover and San Diego, was seeded fourth. Hoover’s undefeated regular season […]
Read More1959-60: Hoover Comes Up Short at Finish Line
Seldom was a defeat as disappointing as that which knocked out Hoover in the semifinals of San Diego’s swansong in the CIF Southern Section playoffs. The Cardinals sustained a numbing, 39-34 loss to Anaheim in the round of four in a season when they were unbeaten for 26* straight games. Coach Charlie Hampton had returned […]
Read More2017 Week 3: Cavers Finding It Fun Again
Baby steps to others are leaps and bounds at San Diego High. Save for a 13-8-2 record by the Keir Kimbrough-coached squads in 2010 and 2011, the Cavers have endured stretches of apathy and losses that extend into the misty past. San Diego is 32-109-3 since 2002 and have had 12 winning seasons in the […]
Read More2017 Week 2: Overtime, Then and Now
Palm Springs defeated Scripps Ranch, 42-35, in two overtimes and Army-Navy’s topped Perris Military, 21-20, in one overtime last week. Both of those game results presumably were more easily reached than the first in 1976. That was the year of imposition of the new “California Tie-Breaker”. As noted by Steve Brand, The San Diego Union […]
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