1955: Chula Vista’s Winningest Era
Chet DeVore was taken aback, if not incredulous. “I’m a basketball coach,” he told his boss. “I don’t have enough experience to coach football.” That was DeVore’s reaction in 1951 when Chula Vista High principal Joe Rindone, asked DeVore to head the Spartans’ football program. Few administrators have been so prescient. Forty-four wins, seven losses, […]
Read More2016 Week 16: Country Day Plays NFL Schedule
La Jolla Country Day will set a San Diego Section record tomorrow evening when it plays visiting Oakland McClymonds in the State Division V-A finals at 6 p.m. The championship will mark the 16th game, the length of a regular NFL season, for the Torreys since the since the start of the season. Madison and […]
Read More1958: Cinderella Was a Red Devil
An apparent CIF playoff loss by another San Diego-area team loomed when Sweetwater took possession after an Anaheim punt late in the third quarter, trailing in a first-round game, 7-0. What followed was legend. What Red Devils quarterback Wayne Sevier remembered, before he passed away in 1999, was “twenty-four plays, eighty-three yards, seven first downs, […]
Read More2016 Week 15: Cathedral Unanimous in Final Grid Poll
Cathedral, Madison, Mater Dei, and The Bishop’s comprise four of the final Top 10 selections in the weekly Union-Tribune poll and will begin quests for state championships this week. Cathedral was a unanimous choice as No. 1, earning first-place votes from all 27 panelists. La Jolla Country Day, which finished out of the Top 10 but […]
Read More1958: Jackrabbit Fever Strikes Mighty Cavemen
San Diego High fell with a resounding thud in quarterfinals of the Southern Section playoffs. A 26-18 loss to old nemesis Long Beach Poly in Balboa Stadium was surprising in its decisiveness, devastating in its finality. Especially for coach Duane Maley, who announced his intention to retire from coaching and go into administration at the […]
Read More2016: Week 14: Top Rated Teams Meet in Finals
The CIF power ratings are holding up fairly well as the final round of San Diego Section play takes place Friday and Saturday at Southwestern College. The two highest power rated clubs will meet in the Open Division and in D-1 and D-3. Winning teams will progress to a variety of divisions in a Southern […]
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