The thermometer is expected to reach three digits in San Diego Friday, recalling a similar day and high school football 59 years ago.

On Thursday, Sept. 26, 1963, an all-time high of 111 degrees scorched the area. The next day the  high was 104.

I was in the Hoover stadium when the Cardinals and Helix, two of the best San Diego Section teams, kicked off at 8 p.m. on Sept. 27, 1963.

And it still was hot, 102 degrees.

“Cards Rally to Nose Out Helix, 14-13″ was the headline over my game story.

Hoover quarterback Rick Shaw drove his team 77 yards in five plays to the winning touchdown with 3:02 remaining in a duel with Helix signal caller Joe Lavage.

The message today is the same as then:  Stay hydrated, all.

Despite a 42-7 loss to state No. 3 Corona Centennial, in which it manufactured only 138 yards offense, Cathedral still is held in high esteem by  the computer services.

Max Preps ranks Cathedral  fifth and gives the Dons a 60.7 strength-of-schedule rating, highest among any team in California.  Anaheim Servite (60.4) and Norco (60.1) are closest.

Cathedral remained the No. 10 team in the Cal-Hi Sports poll and their 60.6 Cal Preps.com score was higher than the previous week’s.  Computer rankings generally are based on who you play and who your opponents play.

San Diego Union-Tribune Sportswriters/Sportscasters Week 2 poll.
Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
*First-place votes. “Previous” indicates last week.  NR—Not ranked. Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings.

RANK	TEAM/RECORD	POINTS/PREVIOUS	MAX PREPS.COM	CAL-PREPS.COM	CAL-HI SPORTS
1	Carlsbad (1-0)	27* / 285 / 2	16	45.3	16
2	Cathedral (1-1)	11* / 255 / 1	5	60.6	10
3	Madison (2-0)	229 / 3	36	33.9	34
4	Helix (2-0)	202 / 6	38	31.8	30
5	Lincoln (1-1)	160 / 4	47	29.9	44
6	Mission Hills (2-0)	156 / 7	44	30.2	On the Bubble
7	Mater Dei (0-2)	149 / 5	17	45.0	23
8	Poway (2-0)	89 / 8	78	21.1	On the Bubble
9	Ramona (2-0)	69 / 9	75	22.4	NR
10	El Camino (2-0)	28 / NR	137	10.6	NR

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Torrey Pines (0-2, 8 points), El Centro Central (2-0, 6), Granite Hills (1-1, 2), St. Augustine (1-1, 2), Del Norte, 1), Mira Mesa (1).

VOTING PANEL

• John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
• Steve Brand, Thomas Gutierrez, Rick Hoff, Terry Monahan, Don Norcross, Eric Williams, Freelance contributors.
• Brandon Stone, Allison Edmonds, John Carroll, KUSI-Channel 51 TV.
• Rick Smith, partletonsports.com.
• Ramon Scott, Adam Paul, eastcountysports.com.
• John Kentera, Braden Suprenant (97.3 FM The Fan).
• Bodie DeSilva, scoreboardlive.com.
• Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country 107.9 FM.
• Christian Pedersen, San Diego Sports Association.
• Troy Hirsch, Nic Pollino (Fox 5 San Diego).
• Todd Cassen, Joe Heinz, Ron Marquez, CIF San Diego Section.
• Mike Dolan, Rex Johnson, CIF Advisory Committee.
• Joe Evangelist, San Diego Coaching Legends.
• Will Torrez, Valley Sports Network.
• Raymond Brown, sdfootball.net.
• Tom Helmantoler, Southern Conference Advisor.
• MaxPreps.com

TRUE GRID
Cathedral goes back into the cauldron this week after the 42-7 loss to Corona Centennial…the Dons play Chandler, the No. 5-ranked team in Arizona, coached by former San Diego State footballer Rick Garretson, whose brother (Ron) and father (Darell) were referees in the NBA…Ron retired after 32 seasons  in 2019 and Darell, who worked 27 years, is in the NBA Hall of Fame…Rick was a wide receiver for the  Aztecs from 1975-78 and is 23-0 as the Wolves’ head coach through 2021, beginning with a 13-0 state championship season in 2019…a win this week at Montgomery and Troy Starr will become the 45^th San Diego County coach to win 100 games…Starr,  99-38-1 (.721),  is in his fifth season at Mount Miguel after eight at Helix…the Matadors have yet to be scored on with 42-0 and 22-0 wins over Sweetwater and Chula Vista…El Cajon Valley tied a school record in its 56-0 win over Hoover…the Braves defeated Orange Glen, 56-26, and Castle Park, 56-32, in back-to-back playoff games in 2005, during an 11-3 season led by  passing star Abraham Muheize…Army-Navy is 2-0 and hasn’t given up a point…the last time was in 1968, when the John Maffucci-coached Warriors opened with shutouts of 18-0 over La Jolla Country Day and 9-0 over San Miguel School…A-N head coach and athletic director Nehemiah Brunson may cut his son some slack this week when it comes to cleaning his dorm room or mowing the lawn and taking out the trash at home…Nehemiah, Jr., scored two touchdowns, one on a 91-yard run, in a 24-0 win over Clairemont….

Visiting Calexico was in a 7-7 tie in the fourth quarter in the season’s first game when the lights went out at the Blythe Palo Verde Valley stadium.

The final score was reported to Max Preps as a tie, a result increasingly uncommon as teams nowadays usually find a conclusion in overtime.  A few hours later Cal-Preps.com weighed in with a different result.

Which was correct?

Coaches and other officials apparently huddled in the darkness of the Yellowjackets’ facility and agreed to resume the game the following day, more than 100 miles away at Calexico.

Calexico won in overtime, 14-7, in a game reminiscent of a contest between Kearny and Point Loma more than 40 years earlier.  (Search: 1979: Eighteen Hours Later Komets Emerge as Winners).

Francis Parker’s Chris Williams set a San Diego Section record when he scored all 52 points in the Lancers’ 52-27 win over Pasadena Poly, according to   information provided to The San  Diego Union.

Williams did it all:  Six touchdown runs, 10, 23,25,27,27, and 45 yards.  A 62-yard pass interception for a touchdown.  Seven points after and a 28-yard field goal.

(According to Max Preps, Williams missed one point after and finished with 51 points.  Cal Preps.com went with the reported 52).

Fifty-one or 52, Williams still broke the record of 50 by three players, most recently Mac Bingham of Torrey Pines in 2018. Mountain Empire’s Chad Cox scored 50 in 1998 and Paul Delgado of St. Joseph 50 in 2008.

GREENE STILL KING

Williams ranks third all time in San Diego County.

Coronado’s Frank Greene scored 80 points in the Islanders’ 108-0 win over Sweetwater in 1929.    Greene scored 11 touchdowns and 14 points after and also still holds the California high school record.

San Diego’s John Hunter scored 57 points on seven touchdowns and 15 points after in a 130-7 win over Army-Navy in 1920.  Hunter played in an era when the team that scored also received the following kickoff.

DONS FACE ANOTHER BIG ONE

Cathedral’s  solid, 28-14 win over Mater Dei in the season opener last week verified the Don’s preseason No. 1 ranking in the San Diego Section and their clout among the state’s best clubs will receive a severe test this week.  Coach Sean Doyle’s squad takes on state No. 3 Corona Centennial at Cathedral.

The Dons won a wildly entertaining, 44-41 contest from the Huskies in 2019 but traveled north and took a 57-14 beating in 2021.

Doyle (222-96 in 26-plus seasons) does not flinch when it comes to scheduling powerful intersectional opponents.

His team also will face Chandler, Arizona, in the Honor Bowl at Cathedral in Week 3 and has a rematch at home versus Concord De La Salle in Week 5, plus a tough Western League lineup that includes state-ranked Lincoln and Madison,  and Helix and Steele Canyon from the Grossmont Hills loop.

San Diego Union-Tribune Sportswriters/Sportscasters poll.
Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
*First-place votes. “Previous” is ranking in 2021 final top 10.
NR—Not ranked.
Max Preps’ and Cal-Hi Sports’ are state rankings.

RANK	TEAM/RECORD	POINTS/PREVIOUS	MAX PREPS	CAL-PREPS	CAL-HI SPORTS
1	Cathedral (1-0)	27* / 293 / 1	6	59.1	10
2	Carlsbad (0-0)	3* / 267 / 2	30	36.9	19
3	Madison (1-0)	207 / 4	41	31.2	36
4	Lincoln (1-0)	204 / 5	35	33.2	24
5	Mater Dei (0-1)	199 / 3	9	55.7	23
6	Helix (1-0)	180 / 6	41	31.5	31
7	Mission Hills (1-0)	143 / 7	58	24.1	On the Bubble
8	Poway (1-0)	88 / 10	79	19.3	On the Bubble
9	Ramona (1-0)	25 / NR	112	13.2	NR
10	Torrey Pines	24 / 8	95	16.3	NR

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES 
Steele Canyon (1-0, 18 points), El Camino (1-0, 13), Brawley (1-0, 10), San Marcos (1-0, 3), Scripps Ranch (0-1, 3), Granite Hills (0-1, 2), El Centro Central (1-0, 2), Patrick Henry (0-0, 1).

VOTING PANEL

• John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
• Steve Brand, Thomas Gutierrez, Rick Hoff, Terry Monahan, Don Norcross, Eric Williams, Freelance contributors.
• Brandon Stone, Allison Edmonds, John Carroll, KUSI-Channel 51 TV.
• Rick Smith, partletonsports.com.
• Ramon Scott, Adam Paul, eastcountysports.com.
• John Kentera, Braden Suprenant (97.3 FM The Fan).
• Bodie DeSilva, scoreboardlive.com.
• Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country 107.9 FM.
• Christian Pedersen, San Diego Sports Association.
• Troy Hirsch, Nic Pollino (Fox 5 San Diego).
• Todd Cassen, Joe Heinz, Ron Marquez, CIF San Diego Section.
• Mike Dolan, Rex Johnson, CIF Advisory Committee.
• Joe Evangelist, San Diego Coaching Legends.
• Will Torrez, Valley Sports Network.
• Raymond Brown, sdfootball.net.
• Tom Helmantoler, Southern Conference Advisor.
• Max Preps

TRUE GRID

Foothills Christian, after moving up to Division V and going 3-6 in the 11-man game in 2021, has returned to the 8-man game and landed in the Ocean League…there now are three, eight-man leagues of 16 teams, Citrus, Ocean, and Surf…the first-year Surf includes Calvin Christian, Coastal Academy, The Rock, and Horizon Prep…Foothills Christian last week lost, 40-14, to the visiting Sultans of  Bagdad, Arizona, located at 3,400 feet elevation, 160 miles east of Lake Havasu City and 65 miles West of Prescott…visiting Carlsbad (2) and Mater Dei  (5) represent one of the feature games this week and each is on a roll…the Lancers, under Thadd MacNeal (76-45) are 26-3 since 2019…Mater Dei, guided by John Joyner (87-61 despite a 2-18 start in 2009-10) are 17-3 since ’20…Lincoln’s 56-0 victory at Sacramento Capital Christian, was mercifully called after three quarters…

John Maffei of The San Diego Union-Tribune and three other ranking services have offered their opinions on 2022 football in the San Diego Section.

Maffei canvassed coaches, noted the results of summer 7-on-7 passing competitions, and compared roster compositions, among other factors.  The U-T’s weekly poll will begin after this week’s opening round of games.

Cal-Hi Sports and Maffei agree that Cathedral is No. 1 in San Diego, although the Max Preps and Cal Preps.com computers are going with Mater Dei.

It won’t take long to see who is prescient.  Cathedral visits Mater Dei Saturday night in the season’s featured opener and ‘Dei plays Maffei’s No. 2 Carlsbad next week.

MAFFEI RANK	TEAM	2021 RECORD	MAX PREPS	CAL PREPS	CAL-HI SPORTS
1	Cathedral	12-2	2	57.8	12
2	Carlsbad	11-1	3	40.2	18
3	Mater Dei	13-0	1	58.12	15
4	Madison	9-3	6	34.4	41
5	Lincoln	8-4	4	34.4	31
6	Helix	9-4	5	34.4	35
7	Mission Hills	8-3	8	24.8	On the Bubble
8	Torrey Pines	6-4	9	22.0	On the Bubble
9	Scripps Ranch	13-1	8	28.3	Not Ranked
10	Poway	7-4	11	20.5	Not Ranked

Others considered, with 2021 records in parenthesis:

Patrick Henry (10-3), Granite Hills (5-7), Ramona (9-4), Steele Canyon (3-8), Brawley (9-3), Eastlake (8-4), La Costa Canyon (5-6), El Camino (7-6), Christian (6-5), University City (8-5), Oceanside (4-7). La Jolla Country Day (9-3).

COACHING CHANGES

Fifteen jobs opened and closed, with two coaches changing addresses.  Syd Reed, 5-5 at Mar Vista in 2021, takes over for Charles James at San Diego.  Ron Gladnick (43-30-1) at Clairemont (2013) and Torrey Pines (2016-21) replaces Joe Kremer at St. Augustine.

SCHOOL	IN	OUT
Christian	Patrick Bugg	Danny Mitchell
Escondido	Aron Gideon	Jud Boardman
Fallbrook	Ross Johnson	Troy Everhart
Helix	Damaja Jones	Robbie Owens
Mabel O’Farrell	Jake Passot	Tim Baxter
Mar Vista	David Moore	Syd Reed
Otay Ranch	Brad Burton	Lance Christensen
Patrick Henry	Colby Davies	J.T. O’Sullivan
San Diego	Syd Reed	Charles James
San Marcos	Tom Carroll	Derek Stank
St. Augustine	Ron Gladnick	Joe Kremer
Torrey Pines	Robby Collins	Ron Gladnick
Valhalla	Wayne Cherry	Charles Bussey

Late additions:  Ben Jameson for Rali Schwartz at Rock; Andrew Serrano for Mario Gonzalez at Salton City West Shores.

LEAGUE CHANGES

SCHOOL	NEW	OLD
Army-Navy	Sunset	Pacific
Tri-City	Sunset	Coastal
Mabel O’Farrell	Sunset	Pacific
Maranatha	Sunset	Pacific
Coronado	Central	City
Mission Bay	City	Central
Point Loma	City	Eastern
Patrick Henry	Eastern	City
Classical	Pacific	Coastal
La Jolla	Eastern	Western
Scripps Ranch	Western	Eastern
Hilltop	Metro Mesa	Metro South Bay
Olympian	Metro Mesa	Metro South Bay
Mar Vista	Metro South Bay	Metro Pacific
Chula Vista	Metro South Bay	Metro Pacific
San Ysidro	Metro South Bay	Metro Pacific
Sweetwater	Metro Pacific	Metro South Bay

 

Grossmont’s Southern California Minor Division football championship for schools with less than 1,000 students was achieved following a series of competitive and administrative tug of wars.

Coach Ladimir (Jack) Mashin’s Foothillers defeated Calexico High, 9-0, on the Grossmont gridiron to complete an 8-0-3 season that included a championship in the San Diego County League.

With a 4-0-2 league record and two nonleague wins behind them, the Foothillers opened the playoffs at home with a 14-7, semifinal victory over the Oxnard Yellowjackets, Holly Partin scoring the winning touchdown on a 10-yard run, reportedly as the gun sounded to end the game.

The championship was to be decided at El Centro’s Central High, Grossmont taking on the Calexico Bulldogs. But after four hard-fought quarters the teams were tied, 0-0.

Grossmont had a chance to win in the closing seconds, but Partin’s field goal attempt from the 15-yard line, on a sharp angle, “failed to clear the crossbar by less than an inch,” according to Charles Savage, The San Diego Union reporter who had made the three-hour trek across the Laguna Mountains to the Imperial Valley locale.

PRECIPITATION AND THEN NIGHTFALL

“A heavy rain fell during the entire contest,” Savage wrote. “Officials were forced to abandon the required playoff rule at the end of sixty minutes of play because of darkness. This arrangement calls for five plays by each team, with two points going to the eleven making the most yardage.”

Grossmont’s 12-8 advantage in first downs was not a factor.

Savage pointed out that conditions had become such in the Imperial Valley that players and spectators could not follow the action in the game’s closing moments.

Instead of being declared co-champions,   CIF Southern Section rules decreed that the teams  should play again.  Mashin and Calexico coach Ed Covington both announced that the CIF Southern Section  would be requested to fix a playoff date.

“It is probable that the battle will be replayed in the San Diego stadium next Saturday,” Savage wrote.

“Not so fast,” actually words much stronger, were uttered by Calexico’s Covington. Five days after the game a site for the rematch had not been selected.

WHO PLAYS AT HOME?

Long Beach Wilson principal Harry J. Moore was the official who coordinated the CIF Minor Division playoffs.

On Monday, two days following the 0-0 deadlock, Moore notified Mashin that the contest could be played at Grossmont “or any field the Foothillers selected,” according to The San Diego Union.

But Covington protested that the previous game, having been played at El Centro Central (approximately five miles from the Calexico campus) was on a neutral field and that Calexico should be the home team in title game II.

Covington’s argument was specious, but Moore waffled.

Long-distance telephone calls flooded the lines from La Mesa and the Imperial Valley into Moore’s office.  Finally Moore declared that the rematch could be played on the “neutral” Navy Field in San Diego or at San Diego’s City Stadium.

Both venues would be favorable to Grossmont.

The Foothillers argued that they already had made arrangements for a home game, prepared their playing field, and had sold tickets.

PARTIN PAVES THE WAY

Grossmont finally prevailed on choosing of the site, then defeated the Bulldogs before a large crowd on the Foothillers’ field.

Holly Partin was the scoring star for Grossmont.  He kicked a 25-yard field goal in the first quarter and fielded a Calexico  punt and raced 60 yards  to a touchdown in the fourth quarter.

Grossmont had a 10-1 edge in first downs and was 2 for 4 on passing attempts, while Calexico did not complete a pass in seven attempts.

Grossmont’s season had begun with the Foothillers scrambling for a game when Mountain Empire dropped out of the County League four days before the eight-game, round-robin league schedule was to begin.

Rumors swirled that the Redskins, who participated in the league in 1925-26, were going to bail.

The Union reported days before that “coaching gossip” indicated the Campo school did not have enough players or suitable talent to compete.

Grossmont filled the open date at the start of the season and scored a 13-0 victory over the San Diego High B team.

COACH FOR ALL SEASONS

Mashin coached two other undefeated teams during his 25 seasons as head coach at the school which overlooks the El Cajon valley from its perch near the Grossmont summit, hard by Interstate 8.

Mashin had posted a 125-66-23 record for a winning percentage of .633 when he retired from the position after the 1947 season. When he passed away in San Diego at age 92 in 1987 Mashin’s career as a football coach and game official was almost forgotten.

Known as the “Fox of the Foothills,” the kindly Mashin also was track and field coach at Grossmont and developed teams that battled mighty San Diego High and other Coast League and City Prep League powers for league and Southern California supremacy.

In the 1950s Grossmont distance runners and field event competitors were among the best in the country.

Mashin and his wife, Virginia, for many years a math teacher at Kearny, had met when both were on  staff at Grossmont. They traveled internationally, attending several Summer Olympics. At behest of the U.S. State Department, Mashin coached Pakistan’s 1956 and first Summer Olympics team.

The Fox still was coaching and developing top-flight shot putters in his seventies.

Mashin’s widow died in 2005. She and her husband left much of their estate, almost $2 million, to the Grossmont Union School District, San Diego Education Fund, the San Diego Hall of Champions, and their alma maters, Purdue University for her and Montana State for he.

SAN DIEGO HIGH ON THE OUTS?

Relations between San Diego High and its Coast League counterparts were viewed with suspicion.

Evening Tribune columnist Ted Steinmann wondered whether the league’s Northern entries were trying to “freeze out” the Hillers, not notifying them of recent league meetings, and creating an embarrassing situation surrounding the appointment of game officials for the Hilltoppers’ home contest against Glendale.

Steinmann wrote that three days before kickoff league president Harry Moore of Long Beach Wilson asked San Diego principal John Aseltine to appoint officials from those available in San Diego.   At game time four Los Angeles-area officials showed up.

The San Diego officials “gracefully bowed out after learning to their surprise that the Los Angeles group had been appointed two weeks in advance,” Steinmann wrote.

Steinmann’s report was at odds with that which was reported by The San Diego Sun, which noted two days before kickoff that game officials were coming from a Los Angeles-area association.

ASELTINE DENIES RUMORS

San Diego High principal John Aseltine issued a statement saying that Coast League officials took no action to oust the Hilltoppers during a league meeting Dec. 6 at Whittier, but Aseltine hinted of a new direction for his school.

“We are strongly considering the proposition of becoming a free-lance school next year (it did not),” said Aseltine, who spoke in concert with his director of athletics and former head football coach, John Perry.

Travel time and travel expenses were cited.

Sitting south and alone in  the “Border Town”, San Diego and its league partners were dogged by distance from 1923-49, the years the Hillers were in the league (not counting 1941 and the travel-restricted World War II period, 1942-45).

The San Diego Sun pointed out that each school year the “Hillers travel more than 100 miles each way for at least three games in all four major sports, football, basketball, baseball, and track and field”.

In addition, all swimming, tennis, and wrestling meets were held at northern schools in the 1926-27 school year, The Sun reported.

“And when northern league members come to San Diego we must split the gate receipts on a fifty-fifty basis,” said Aseltine.

In another move, the CIF said the annual state football playoffs were being canceled.

THE PLACE TO LIVE

Realtor Oscar Cotton, whose promotional vision led to the creation of the San Diego Convention and Tourist Bureau, urged San Diegans to “Go North”, touting the advantages of buying and building on 60-foot residential lots priced from $150 to $350 in Chesterton, an area in the undeveloped Kearny Mesa.

Completion of the Sixth Street Extension had created an artery to what became Ulric Street and the Chesterton and Linda Vista areas. Chesterton also was accessible from “the inland paved highway, Camp Kearny Boulevard”, later known as Linda Vista Road.

The Sixth Street Extension exists today as that snippet of Sixth Avenue, north of University Avenue, that connects with State 163 (and former U.S. 395) into Mission Valley.

SIGNS OF THE TIME

William and Ida Church made history.  They were the first husband and wife in the history of the San Diego Courts system to sit on the same jury.

The Churches were on the panel  trying Hazel Blair, charged with selling beer.

Blair failed to appear as the trial began.  Her sister advised the court that Blair was suffering from “chills and fever”, and her trial was postponed.

BOOK CRACKDOWN

The Evening Tribune reported  that students at San Diego High who lost their books or failed to pay for them would be given a “dishonorable dismissal from school”.

HERE COMES HOOVER

The need for a new high school on the “East side” was evident when  enrollment at Woodrow Wilson Junior High, 37th Street and El Cajon Boulevard, jumped from 1,300 to 1,650.

Hoover High would come along in three years, with Wilson principal Floyd Johnson moving on as principal of the new school.

2 FOR 1 

San Diego offered “bargain day” at the Stadium, a football doubleheader on the final Saturday of the season.

Lathrop Junior High of Santa Ana played Memorial Junior High of San Diego in the opening game, followed by old rivals Santa Ana and San Diego in the nightcap.

HUDDLE UP!

San Diego coach John Hobbs announced that the Hilltoppers would use the “huddle system” before plays against  Santa Ana.

Ashley West usually barked signals for the Cavers from his quarterback position but Hobbs opted for more  security as far as which play the Cavers would employ.

Santa Ana coach Tex Oliver was a former coach at Memorial Junior High.

QUICK KICKS

Grossmont footballers John Cornelius and Walter Barnett went on to long careers in administration…Barnett was Grossmont’s principal from 1959-76…Cornelius was boss when El Cajon Valley High opened in 1955…Grossmont playoff opponent Oxnard was coached by former Coronado mentor John Nichols…John Perry, who had stepped down as coach at San Diego but remained on the physical education staff, welcomed some 600 students to the first annual interclass handball doubles tournament…Oceanside coach Joe Reynolds promised to field a “much better team” in 1927… Oceanside was 0-8 and scored 6 points; it was 1-6-1 in 1926…Coronado picked up Brawley as an opponent after Mountain Empire dropped out of the County League and defeated the Wildcats, 6-0, before 3,000 at Coronado…San Diego High’s Class B team defeated Alhambra’s lightweights,  71-0…San Diego’s game with South Pasadena was switched from Saturday to Friday, allowing  Hillers coaches  to scout Santa Ana, their next opponent… Point Loma completed 15 of 16 passes against Sweetwater…the Pointers-Red Devils game was one of 10 scoreless ties involving San Diego teams… La Jolla erected bleachers for 500 spectators for the Vikings’ game with Sweetwater…Kendall (Bobo) Arnett scored all of San Diego’s points in a 13-9 loss at Pasadena on a touchdown and 35-yard field goal… Monrovia, the opponent for St. Augustine in the last game of the season, was coached by former San Diego High standout and future Cavers coach Hobbs Adams… Whittier came into the game with the Cavers with a team average of 190 pounds, making the Poets the largest high school team in the country, according to The Union… Poly defeated Pasadena 6-3 for the Coast League championship before 10,000 fans at Long Beach’s Burcham Field…Fullerton defeated Santa Maria, 20-13, for the Southern California championship… San Diego High finished the season in Arizona, helping Phoenix Union dedicate its new campus stadium and dropping a 7-0 decision to the Coyotes…almost 1,000 students marched the night before, rallying for the “interstate game”…tackle Gordon Cox was named Captain at Sweetwater…Cox would become the Red Devils’ head coach in 1943…Research by The San Diego Sun writer Nelson Fisher revealed that 40 San Diego High graduates had earned college football letters since 1914…thirteen schools, from  USC to California and Notre Dame to Centre, were represented…leading 49-0 at halftime, St. Augustine and South Pasadena Oneonta Academy agreed to eight-minute quarters for the second half…the Saints didn’t slow down with the final score 73-0….