Happy trails, Victory League.

A bi-product of World War II, gasoline rationing, security scares, and travel restriction, the league served its purpose for four calendar years (search 1943: V is Key) as school bosses and students strived for normality.

San Diego and Hoover, which joined teams in the Metropolitan League in1942 and again when the Victory was formed, returned this season to the Coast League, in which the Hilltoppers first rolled in 1923 and which Hoover had joined in 1937.

The Compton Tarbabes, little brothers to the Compton College Tartars, united with San Diego, Pasadena, and Pasadena Muir in a revived Coast League, while smaller city schools and suburbans were back in the Metropolitan League, back in business following four years in drydock. The remaining few  took seats in the Southern Prep League.

Art Barnard of La Jolla won the 120-yard high hurdles and Ernie Smith of San Diego the broad jump in the Southern Section finals.  Each was a  runner-up in his event in the state meet.

2/28/47

San Diego opened the season with a 77-27 dual meet victory at Grossmont.

3/6/47

Jack Littler, not as well known as his golf champion brother Gene, won the 100-yard dash in :10.8 and the broad jump at 19 feet, 11 inches, as La Jolla won a dual meet, 73-27, over visiting Vista.

3/7/47

Graydon Calder high jumped 6-1 and Bobby Smith pole vaulted 12 feet as San Diego beat the host Long Beach Wilson Bruins, 63-41.  Ernie (Bud) Genet tied with Bob Van Doren for first at 45-9 in the shot put and won the broad jump at 20-3.

–Grossmont beat Sweetwater, 72-32, and La Jolla, with Art Barnard winning the 100 in :10.3 and 220 in :23, swamped Escondido, 90-14, and Kearny beat Coronado, 77 1/3-26 2/3 in opening Metropolitan League dual meets.

3/13/47

Jack Lucas set a La Jolla record of 2:06 in the 880 and Art Barnard tied his school record with a :10.3 100 as the Vikings defeated Sweetwater, 70-34.  Grossmont beat Point Loma, 77-27, and Escondido defeated Coronado, 66 1/3-37 2/3.

3/14/47

Bryan Benson went 48-6 ½ and Volney Peters 48-6 ¼ in the shot put as Hoover won a Coast League dual at home, 69-35, versus Long Beach Wilson.

3/20/47

Art Barnard set a La Jolla school record with a :22.6 220 and Jess Estrada tied Jack Lucas’ recent school record of 2:06 in the 880 in the Vikings’ 57 1/2-46 ½ win over Point Loma on the Vikings’ track.

3/21/47

Sophomore Gene Sieben doubled in host Sweetwater’s 84-20 win against Coronado, winning the 120-yard high hurdles in :15.7 and 180 lows in 21.4.

3/22/47

Team champion Redondo Beach Redondo Union scored 30 points to San Diego’s 29 1/5 in the Southern Counties Invitational at Huntington Beach.

Hoover and Grossmont were fourth and sixth with 14 and 8 ½ points each.  La Jolla was second with 18 points in the small schools’ division, won by Fullerton with 19. Point Loma was 13^th with 5 points and Coronado did not score.

Hoover’s Bob Lange and San Diego’s Bobby Smith tied for first in the pole vault at 12 feet, 3 inches.

3/25/47

Brown Military scored 47 ½ points to San Dieguito’s 43, and host Ramona’s 12 1/2 in a Southern Prep League triangular meet.  Miller of Brown won the 100 in :10.8, 220 in :23.3, and broad jump at 20 feet, 5 inches.

3/27/47

Jess Estrada set a La Jolla record of 2:04.2 in the 880 and Art Barnard won the 100 in :10.1 and 220 in :22.7, but San Diego claimed the nonleague dual meet, 70-34, in Balboa Stadium.

4/10/47

Hoover and San Diego were favored to fight it out for the Coast League dual-meet championship, but Compton beat both in their triangular showdown on the San Diego State oval.  The Tarbabes scored 51 ½ points to San Diego’s 43 and Hoover’s 36 ½.

Bill Fell was a double winner in the 100 (:10.1) and 220 (:22.6), Jerome Walters won the 880 (2:00.4), and Chuck Kohl took the mile (4:33.7) for the visitors.

Joe Azevedo put the shot 51 feet, ½ inch, Bobby Smith pole vaulted 12-3, and the Hilltoppers won the 880-yard relay in 1:31.1.

Ernie Smith of San Diego and Jack Razzeto of Hoover tied for first in the high jump at 5-11 ½. Karl Preibisius won the 120-yard highs in :15.8 for the Cardinals.

–Grossmont defeated La Jolla, 60-44, in the Metropolitan League’s big one.  Top mark was Foothiller Joe Page’s 6-2 ½ high jump.  Art Barnard doubled in the sprints in :10.1 and :22.6 for the visiting Vikings.

–Gene Sieben won the 180-yard lows in :20.7 and Bill Ellis logged a :52.6 440 as Sweetwater beat Kearny, 54-50. Point Loma topped Escondido, 81 ½-22 ½.

4/15/47

Hoover stepped out of the Coast League and dominated Metro power Grossmont, 72-32. Jack Razzetto and Grossmont’s Joe Page tied for first in the high jump at 6-1 1/4.

Hoover’s Karl Preibisius won the high hurdles in :15.7 and teammate Don Donnelly took the 180 lows in :21.2.  The Cardinals’ Bill Kirby won the 440 in :51.5.  Bryan Benson led a 1-2 Hoover finish with Volney Peters in the shot put at 49-2 ½.

4/16/47

Hoover won the 880 relay in 1:31.8, capping a 69 1/6-34 5/6 victory in a rain-makeup meet with La Jolla at Hoover.  Chuck Whitmarsh won the 100in :10.2 and 220 in :22.6 for the Cardinals.

4/18/47

A San Diego quartet of Cleo Williams, Charles Davis, John Holloway, and Harold Miller ran a season-best 1:30.1 in the 880 relay and brought San Diego to victory and a 52-52 deadlock with Hoover before an estimated 2,200 persons in Balboa Stadium in the first-ever night meet between the rivals.

Bill Kirby set a Hoover record of :50.9 in the 440. Chuck Phillips ran 2:03.1 in the 880, and Jack Razzeto high jumped 6-1.  Joe Azevedo put the shot 50-8, Bobby Smith vaulted 12-4 ¾, and Harold Miller won the 100 in :10.2 and 220 in :22.7 for San Diego.

–Ray Oyos turned in the season’s best broad jump, 22-3 ¼ in Grossmont’s 85-19 win at Coronado.  Joe Page high jumped 6-1 3/8 for the Foothillers.

–Gene Sieben rook the 100 in :10.8 and 180-yard lows in :20.5 as Sweetwater forged a 52-52 tie with Kearny.

4/25/47

Joe Page bettered his school record with a 6-foot, 3-inch high jump as Grossmont wrapped the Metropolitan League championship, 90-14, over Escondido. Bob Mahan won the 120 low hurdles in :13.9 and 120 highs in :15.5, and added a 19-7 ½ broad jump as Point Loma won at Kearny, 76-28.

–Joe Azevedo reached 51-6 ½ in the shot put and Ernie Smith went 22-1 ½ in the broad jump and San Diego routed Pasadena and Pasadena Muir in Balboa Stadium, 91 ½ to 30 ½ to 9, respectively.

4/30/47

Dick Straub won the 100 in :10.2 and 220 in :22.8 and Hoover also scored a multiple win, winning a three-way meet at Pasadena.

The Cardinals outscored the host Pasadena Bullpups, 78 1/10-38 9/10, and the Muir Mustangs, who scored 14 points.

Bill Kirby ran the 440 in :51.4 for another Hoover victory.

5/2/47

Art Barnard of La Jolla won the 120-yard high hurdles in :15 and 180-yard low hurdles in :19.8, fastest ever run by a San Diego County athlete, but Grossmont ran away with the team championship in Class A, B, and C in the Metropolitan League meet at San Diego State.

Coach Jack Mashin’s Grossmont squad scored 62 ½ points each in A and B, and 50 points in Class C.

–Bob Mahon of Point Loma, second to Barnard in both hurdles races, won the broad jump at 21 feet, 11 ¼ inches.  Grossmont’s  Joe Page high jumped 6-1.

5/5/4

Compton edged Hoover, 58 ½-58, for the team championship in the Coast League championships at Compton College.

Hoover would have 10 entries for the CIF Southern Section Divisional meet as Bill Kirby and Don Donnelly qualified in two events each.

Kirby won the 440-yard dash in :51.2 and third in the 100 to the :10.1 of Compton’s Bill Fell, who also won the 220 in :22.5. Donnelly was third in the high jump and third in the 180-yard low hurdles.  Kirby also participated in the 880 relay, won by Hoover in 1:32.

San Diego qualified four, shot putters Joe Acevedo and John Davis, jumper Ernie Smith, who won the high jump at 6-3 and the broad jump at 21-9, and pole vaulter Bobby Smith, first at 12 feet.

Compton won Class B with 67 ½ points to San Diego’s 41, Hoover’s 23 ½, Pasadena’s 23, and Pasadena Muir’s 8.  San Diego scored 59 ½ points in Class C, Hoover 51, Compton, 12, Pasadena, 4 ½, and Muir, zero.

5/10/47

Hoover outscored Grossmont, 36 1/2-36, followed by San Diego, 22 ½, Point Loma, 22, La Jolla, 18 ½, Sweetwater and Brawley, 13, El Centro Central, 5, Kearny, Brown Military, 4, Kearny, 2 ½, and Coronado, 1, in the CIF Divisional meet at san Diego State.

Art Barnard of La Jolla was a double winner, :14.8, fastest ever in the 120-yard high hurdles by a County athlete, and :20.1 in the 180-yard low hurdles.   Joe Page of Grossmont high jumped 6-2.  San Diego’s Joe Acevedo won at 51 feet, 1/8 inch in the shot put and teammate Ernie Smith at 21-9 1/2 in the broad jump.

5/17/47

Art Barnard won the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.6 and Ernie Smith of San Diego took the broad jump at 22-6 ½ in the CIF finals at breezy Oxnard High. Barnard was fourth in the 180 low hurdles and Smith tied with Grossmont’s Joe Page for fifth in the high jump.

–Failing to qualify for the finals,  Bobby Smith entered the high school portion of the West Coast Relays in Fresno. San Diego High reported that Smith cleared 13 feet, 2 inches, eight inches better than his previous best, and one inch below Bill Miller’s 1929 school record of 13-3.

Smith was the son of Ralph and nephew of Harry Smith, Hilltoppers vaulters of the 1920s, and later was head coach at Lincoln and San Diego City College.

5/24/47

Art Barnard was second to the winning :14.5 of Los Angeles Washington’s Hugh McElhenny in the 120-yard high hurdles in the 31^st state meet at the Mineral Bowl in Visalia.

McElhenny also won the broad jump at 22-10 ½, with San Diego’s Ernie Smith second at 22-6 ¼.

Bill Kirby of Hoover was unplaced in the 440-yard dash and Joe Acevedo of San Diego did not place in the shot put.

 

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 in 1944,  their only losses, 54-50 to Grossmont, and 55-48 to Hoover, in Patten’s first season.

The CIF Southern Section meet, held in Balboa Stadium for the first time,  could have been a reference point for when the San Diego Section won the right to host the 1967 and 1975 state meets.

The Stadium configuration, which did not provide a straight distance for races of 220 yards, eventually proved to be an Olympic-style  model.  Starting in 1967, all 220-yard events were on a curve, according to track historian Russ Reabold.

The season of 1946  also was the last in which the 220-yard hurdle race was contested.  The CIF reduced the distance to 180 yards in 1947. The CIF would reduce the 120-yard high hurdles clearance from 42 inches to 39 inches the following year.

3/1/46

San Diego won a 65-38 decision against La Jolla, with Norm Stocks setting the pace by winning the 440 in :51.6 and taking the baton to the finish line of a 1:32 victory in the 880-yard relay.  Bobby Smith pole vaulted 11 feet, 6 inches, for the Hilltoppers and George Pinnell had a 48-9 shot put for La Jolla.

3/8/46

A Hoover team of John Mhoon, Chuck Whitmarsh, Rudd Hanna, and Kempton Blair ran the relay in 1:35.5 and its winning five points allowed the Cardinals to deadlock Grossmont, 52-52, in a controversial Victory League dual at Hoover.

Chuck Evins of Grossmont won the 220-yard low hurdles but was disqualified when Evins drifted into another lane on what an Evening Tribune reporter described as poorly marked boundaries.

Grossmont’s Duane (Bud) Close staggered and fell across the finish line in the 440-yard run.  Officials ruled that Close had breasted the tape first in :53.6, although had he not fallen Hoover’s Kempton Blair would have won.

—Norman Stocks won the 100 in :10 and 440 in :50.3, and broad jumped 21 feet, 10 inches, as San Diego whipped Point Loma, 74-30. Stocks teamed with Harry West, Cosimo Cutri, and Jimmy Barrera in a 1:31.9 Hilltoppers relay victory.

Bobby Smith of San Diego pole vaulted 12 feet and Harry Taylor of the Hilltoppers logged a 2:04.3 880.  Point Loma’s Bob Smith ran a 4:44 mile.

3/15/46

Writer Norrie West of the Evening Tribune noted that Point Loma’s 53-51 dual meet victory over Hoover was result of the Pointers’ 1:36.2 triumph in the 880-yard relay final event, traversed on the peninsula team’s 330-yard oval.

But West credited the Point Loma victory to John Chasey, who scissored 5 feet, 9 inches, on his third and final try in the late-finishing high jump.  The second-place and three points by Chasey narrowed a Hoover lead to 51-48 heading into the relay.

–San Diego’s Harry West covered the 220-yard hurdles in :25.5 and teammate Fred Deewall ran the 220 in :22.8, and the Hilltoppers won all 12 events in the 89 ½-14 ½ rout at Sweetwater.

–Bud Held’s 12-2 ½ pole vault was instrumental in Grossmont’s 89 ½-14 ½ win over Kearny.

3/19/46

A “gooey track and half-hour downpour” didn’t make the Balboa Stadium layout unusable, while other Victory League duals were postponed in what had become a wet spring.

San Diego loafed to a 93 ½-10 ½ win over Coronado. Jimmy Barrera broad jumped 21-8 into a messy pit.  Norman Stocks jogged to a :54.8 win in the 440, and anchored a 1:41.6 victory in the relay.  Stocks and his three associates ran the race without removing their sweat suits.

3/20/46

Grossmont won all 12 events and the meet, 85-19, at Sweetwater despite losing its top sprinter, Dick Johnston, who pulled a muscle in the 100-yard dash.

3/22/46

More than 100 athletes from Victory League schools Grossmont, Coronado, Point Loma, San Diego, Hoover, and Coronado converged on Huntington Beach High with 34 other schools for the 25^th Southern Counties’ Invitational.

Grossmont took large school honors with 21 1/5 points to San Diego’s 20 1/5. Redondo Beach Redondo Union was third with 16 and Hoover fourth with 14.

Ish Herrera of Grossmont won the high jump at 6-1 and Chuck Evins was clocked in :25.4 by coach Jack Mashin for third place in the 220 hurdles.  Bud Held tied with four others for first in the pole vault at 12 feet. Harry West of San Diego was second to Bob Bacon of Redondo in the lows.

Norman Stocks of San Diego and Bud Close of Hoover each won one of the two 440-yard dashes, Stocks finishing in :51.4 and Close in :53.1.  Stocks anchored the Hilltoppers’ 1:32 win in the relay.

Hoover’s Earl Caldwell was second in :15.5 to the :15.2 in the 120-yard high hurdles by Redondo’s Bob Bacon.  Rolland Nelson won the mile in 4:42, followed by teammate Paul Juette.

Wally Hawke of Coronado pole vaulted 11-4 for first in the small schools competition.

3/26/46

Graydon Calder of San Diego high jumped almost a foot over his head when he cleared 6 feet, 3 inches, in the Class B meet with visiting La Jolla.

The 5-foot, 5-inch Calder bettered the CIF Southern Section B meet record of 6-1 ¾ by a Santa Ana jumper in 1938.

San Diego won the varsity portion of the Balboa Stadium event, 83-21.  La Jolla’s Art Barnard edged Norman Stocks in a :10.3 100, but Stocks came back to run the 220 in :22.4 and Harry Taylor posted the season’s best 880 time, 2:02.4.

—Hoover won its first dual meet, 64-40, although visiting Sweetwater’s Bob Tomlinson cleared 11-5 in the pole vault and 5-8 ½ in the high jump, and Cy Young beat favored Bobby Rodriguez in the 880 in 2:05.8.

3/30/46

Grossmont’s Bud Held cleared 12 feet, 4 7/8 inches in the pole vault and teammate Ish Herrera cleared 6-1 3/4 in the high jump at the San Diego State Aztec Relays.

4/5/46

San Diego won the battle of Victory League heavyweights, defeating Grossmont, 61-43, as Norman Stocks and Jimmy Barrera scored two victories each.

Stocks ran :10.4 in the 100-yard dash and :50.2 in the 440.  Barrera broad jumped 21-4 ½ and ran :23.3 in the 220.

Grossmont’s Franklin (Bud) Held pole vaulted 12-1 3/8 and Chuck Evins set a school record of :15.9 in the 120-yard high hurdles.

–George Pinnell hurled the shot 49 feet, 6 inches, but Hoover beat La Jolla, 68-36.

4/10/46

John Janney posted a win-aided :10.0 in the 100 and Maurice Lawford logged a 2:06.5 880, but Grossmont swept the late-finishing high jump and eked out a 52 ½-51 ½ victory over host Point Loma.

4/11/46

Joe Vargas and Brown Military held sway in the CIF Group 12 League finals at San Dieguito. Vargas was reported to have run :10 in the 100 and :22.5 in the 220, and was third in the shot put for a total of 21 ½ points. Brown scored 76 ½, followed by San Dieguito, 65 ½, Vista, 53, Escondido, 45 ½, Oceanside, 28, and Fallbrook, 7 ½.

4/12/46

Norman Stocks’ :10.2 100 and :50.8 440 and Jimmy Barrera’s :22.7 220 and 21-7 ½ broad jump were augmented by Joe Acevedo’s 49-6 ½ shot put and 2:06.5 880 by Harry Taylor in San Diego’s 73-31 win over Hoover.

Half-miler Taylor also joined Stocks, Barrera and John Holloway in a 1:31.3 880 relay victory

Hoover’s only victories came from Earl Caldwell’s :16.2 in the 120 high hurdles and Paul Juette’s 4:46.2 in the mile.

4/17/46

A ferry trip across the bay to Coronado was just part of a leisurely afternoon for coach Raleigh Holt’s Hoover Cardinals.  They beat Coronado, 76-28, winning 10 of 12 events (11, but disqualified in the relay) and Earl Caldwell was a double winner in short hurdles races, :09.5 in the 70-yard highs and :14.3 in the 120-yard lows.

Hoover also swept to victory in classes B and C but the Islanders’ Jike Wong made things interesting for the home team, winning the Cee 50 in :5.9 and broad jump at 20 feet, 3 inches.

4/27/46

Jimmy Barrera broad jumped 22-2 1/2 to set a Victory League record and Norman Stocks tied a 220 record by running :22.3 on the Balboa Stadium curve. Harry Taylor logged a 2:03.5 880.

San Diego wrapped a 5-0 dual-meet league season with the  81-23 win over Kearny.

–Bob Tomlinson ran :25.7 in the 220-yard low hurdles and pole vaulted 12 feet, but Point Loma defeated Sweetwater, 71-33.

–George Pinnell put the shot 50 feet, 2 inches for La Jolla and Chuck Evins broad jumped 21-4 in Grossmont’s 76-28 win.

4/30/46

Buster Bennett, the No. 3 runner on La Jolla’s 880-yard relay team, stumbled and fell during his 220-yard leg, opening the door for a Point Loma win in 1:34 and a 53-51 Pointers’ Victory League dual meet finale victory.

5/5/46

Norman Stocks set a meet record of :50.0 in the 440 and won the 100-yard dash in :10 as San Diego took the Victory League meet championship with 46 ½ points. Grossmont followed with 27, Hoover, 23, La Jolla, 15 ½, Coronado, 5, and Sweetwater, 4.  Kearny was blanked.

Seven meet records were broken.

Harry West of San Diego ran :25.3 in the 220-yard low hurdles.  George Pinnell of La Jolla hurled the shot 51 feet, 9 inches. Maurice Lawhead of Point Loma covered 880 yards in 2:02.7. Ish Herrera of Point Loma high jumped 6 feet ½ inch,  and a San Diego quartet of Jimmy Barrera, Harry West, John Holloway, and Norman Stocks set a record of 1:30.8 in the 880 relay.

Larry Boerner of Grossmont ran the mile in 4:39.2, beating the favored Rolland Nelson of Hoover, second in 4:40.7, ahead of teammate Paul Juette.

5/11/46

Norman Stocks continued his pursuit of Irvine (Cotton) Warburton’s 440-yard dash school record (:49.6) with a :49.9 clocking before about 200 competitors from 23 schools in the Victory, CIF Group 12, and Imperial Valley who attempted to extend their seasons in a Southern Section Divisional meet at San Diego State College.

Stocks, battling blustery weather on the one-turn race, was caught in :49.7 on one official’s stopwatch and :49.8 and :50 on others.

San Diego led all scorers with 43 ½ points and had additional first places in the 100 (Stocks, :10.2), 880 (Harry Taylor, 2:03.5), broad jump (Jimmy Herrera, 21-7 ¾), and 880 relay (1:31.4).

Grossmont’s Bud Held, a future world record holder in the javelin throw (268 feet, 2 inches in 1955), and a 1952 Olympian, was first in the pole vault at 12 feet, ½ inch. La Jolla’s Art Barnard was timed in :25.0 in the 220 hurdles.

Winners automatically advanced to the CIF championships the next week but second and third place finishers had to await an announcement from CIF boss Seth Van Patten after marks were compared to those in two other divisional meets.

5/14/46

San Diego High hurdler Harry West and shot putter Joe Acevedo did not meet the qualifying standard as CIF boss Seth Van Patten announced a total of 29 Victory League entries in classes A, B, and C along with those from divisional meets at Oxnard and Inglewood for Saturday’s Southern Section championship in Balboa Stadium.

5/16/46

Meet director John Brose promised a well-run, informative event for those attending the 28^th CIF championships, held for the first time in San Diego’s Balboa Stadium.

Sixty-two schools had 220 athletes who qualified.

Athletes not in direct competition will be staged in the Southwest corner of the stadium, assuring fans of a clear view of the 440-yard oval, said Brose. American flags will indicate national records in field events and red flags will indicate CIF records.  A stadium public address will follow runners in longer races and large signs will mark the height pole vaulters and high jumpers will attempt.

5/18/46

San Diego scored 11 points, with Norman Stocks winning the 440 in a County record :49.3; anchoring the Hilltoppers to a second place in the 880-yard relay, and Jimmy Barrera finishing fourth in the broad jump in the Southern Section championships.

Stocks did not place in the 100-yard dash but made up eight yards on Redondo Beach Redondo Union’s anchorman to finish second to the Sea Hawks’ 1:29.1.

–Maurice Lawhead of Point Loma was fifth in the 880, won by Clarence Witt of Redlands in 1:58.7.

–Paul Juette of Hoover was fifth in the mile won by Chuck Kohl of Compton in 4:30.7. Victory champion Larry Boerner apparently did not enter after an article in The San Diego Union had cast doubt on his participation because of the flu.

–Earl Caldwell of Hoover was fifth in the 120-yard high hurdles.  Grossmont’s Bud Held tied for fourth in the pole vault.  La Jolla’s George Pinnell was fourth in the shot put.

Redondo won the team championship with 24 ½ points.  Los Angeles Cathedral was second with 12 1/5.

L.A. Mt. Carmel’s John Helwig set a meet record of 59 feet in the shot put.

5/25/46

Norman Stocks was a double winner with another :49.3 in the 440 and by anchoring San Diego to a 1:29.2 victory in the 880 relay in the final event of the afternoon-evening, 30^th state track meet at Compton College.

The Hilltoppers were fourth in team scoring with 10 points.  Redondo Beach Redondo Union won with 21, followed by Alameda, 12, and L.A. Cathedral, 11.

George Pinnell of La Jolla was third in the shot put to John Helwig’s national record 59-5 7/8. Hoover’s Paul Juette was fourth in a record-setting mile of 4:24 by Bob McMillan of L.A. Cathedral. Bud Held of Grossmont tied for fourth in the pole vault, won at 12-6.

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 Diego High stars Ermer and Ivan Robinson went on to Mesa College, San Diego State, and, later, to international acclaim.

Arnie won the Olympic gold medal in the long jump at the 1976 Olympics after earning a bronze in 1972.

Robinson, who eventually returned to teach and coach the Mesa track team, had career bests of 6-10 in the high jump, 27-4 ¼ in the long jump, and 51 feet in the triple jump.

2/28/66

Madison’s Dennis Smith cut almost 10 seconds off his 1965 school record when he ran 10:04.7 in the two-mile, but Granite Hills, defending San Diego Section team champion, won the season-opening meet at Madison, 82-31.

3/2/66

San Diego defeated Point Loma, 67-46, as Doyle Steele doubled in the high jump (5-10) and long jump (22-7) and Orvin Romo logged 1:58.7 in the 880.

Steele could have gone much higher, said coach Martin Pedigo, but the event was halted after the takeoff area became slippery and unsafe because of rain.

3/4/66

Doyle Steel tied Bob Logan’s 1938 school high jump record of 6 feet, 5 ½ inches.  Steele also won the long jump at 23-1 and the triple jump at 43-3, but San Diego dropped a 72-59 decision to Grossmont.

—Crawford routed Kearny, 90 ½-17 ½, and future decathlete Don Bajema set a school record of 6-1 ½ in the high jump and won the long jump at 21-9.

3/11/66

Lincoln’s Johnny Mack Ellis demonstrated strength and speed when he pole vaulted 11-6 and won the sprints in :09.8 and :21.5 and anchored a 1:30 relay victory in Lincoln’s 85-28 win at Kearny.

Ted Scales ran :14.3 in the 120 highs and David Edwards took the 180 lows in :19.3.

Marks were complemented by the breezes that blow off the Kearny Mesa.

—Arnie Robinson long jumped 23-10 ½ in Morse’s triangular meet with Chula Vista and Mission Bay, which the Tigers won with 79 points to the Spartans’ 44 and the Bucs’ 17.

Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson, idled by the flu last week, won the 440 (:50.7) and mile (4:24.2).

3/17/66

Lincoln’s dual-meet power, enhanced by the arrival of Johnny Mack Ellis from Tyler, Texas, rolled on usually respectable Crawford, 84-29.

Ellis took advantage of the Crawford track, elevated, on a mesa and in line with westerly breezes, beat the Colts’ Danny Patton (:09.9) with a :09.7 100, took the 220 on the curve in :22.1, anchored a 1:30.1 relay victory, and pole vaulted 12 feet for a four-win, golden spike afternoon.

—El Cajon Valley’s Armando Valencia took the state lead with a 1:54.9 880 and broke Jack Hudson’s 1958 school record of 1:55.9 in the Braves’ 71-60 loss to Granite Hills and Hilltop’s Terry Rogers, who would win the 880 in the state meet in June, ran 1:55.5 as the Lancers defeated Escondido, 71-60.

3/23/66

Morse would not compete three days later in the National City Junior Chamber of Commerce Relays at Sweetwater, but the Tigers showed they would have been contenders for the team championship by defeating Helix and San Diego in a triangular meet that featured events of the relays.

The Tigers scored 79 points to Helix’ 45, and San Diego’s 32.

Tigers high jumpers Larry Greenwood (6-7 1/2), Paul Lee  (6-2), and Arnie Robinson (6-0) cleared an aggregate, average height of 6-3 ½.

3/26/66

Tim Danielson took the national lead with a time of 4:11.2 in the mile in the 12th annual National City JC Relays, with Terry Rogers of Hilltop, the leader until final 110 yards, second in 4:12.2.

Problem.

The track was yards short of the typical 440-yard oval, but no matter to Danielson.  He had several times better later in the season on other tracks.

3/30/66

St. Augustine’s Tom Eklund tossed his hat into the 880-yard ring with a 1:54.8, topping by 1/10 second that which El Cajon Valley’s Armando Valencia negotiated earlier.

Eklund’s mark did little to help the Saints, 85-18 losers to San Diego.

“I’m using starting blocks, so it will get me out there quicker,” said Eklund of his :54 first quarter. “Then it will let the second quarter take care of itself.”

Eklund was third in 1:55.2 in the San Diego Section championships in 1965 and his best this season before today was 1:56.4.

4/1/66

Tim Danielson took a shot at the 880 and ran 1:53.2, fourth fastest in area history, and Chula Vista won at Escondido, 87-26.

–The wind blew and the marks flew at Morse, where the Tigers’ Donald Anders beat Crawford’s Danny Patton in a :09.8 100 and Patton beat Anders, :21.3 to :21.4, in the straight 220.

–Rick Rubin set a Helix record of 4:20.6, but Armando Valencia won the mile in 4:16.1, although Valencia and his El Cajon Valley teammates were on the short end of the 91-40 score.

4/6/66

–Ira Raibon set an Oceanside record of 6-2 3/4 in the high jump.  Terry Rogers broke Hilltop’s two-mile mark with a 9:41.8 and Brent Rowlett ran 9:50.8 for an Oceanside record. Fred Logel lowered the Morse mile to 4:38.6 and teammate John Roberts hurled the shot 51-2 ½ for another school record.

4/9/66

Hilltop won the Dean C.E. Peterson trophy for the outstanding performance and Lincoln hurdler Ted Scales for the outstanding individual performance in the seventh San Diego (formerly Easter) Relays in Balboa Stadium.

The Lancers’ distance medley team of Bruce Pradels (440), Bernie Calderon (880), Jimmy Gelsomini (1,320), and miler Terry Rogers, who anchored in 4:16.1, completed the distance in a County-record 10:23.4.

Scales came from behind on the last hurdle to nip teammate David Edwards in the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.1, best ever in the area, and Monte Vista’s 4-man, 4-mile relay team of  Dave Matheny, Rod Stephens, Mark Clark, and Don Olsen clocked 18:06.08, another all-time best.

4/15/66

Arnie Robinson won the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.8, high jumped 6 feet, 7 inches, and long jumped 24 feet in Morse’s 71-42 win over Hoover, the same school that had beaten the first-year Tigers, 103-1, in 1963.

Of one of the most impressive three-event performances in area dual-meet history, Robinson said, “It was my last meet at home and I wanted to do good.”

“Arnie had the spirit today,” remarked teammate Harold Greenwood after Robinson reached 24 feet on his first try.  Robinson and Greenwood tied in the high jump but Arnie had fewer misses.

Another Robinson teammate, Donald Anders, won the 100 in :09.9 and 220 in a school-record :21.5.

–Johnny Mack Ellis ran :09.8 and :22.2 in the 100 and 220 and pole vaulted 12-6 as Lincoln erased any drama in the usually heated rivalry with San Diego, 74 ½-38 ½.

The Hornets even topped the Cavemen with essentially a backup relay team of Louis King, James Gunn, Albert Quinn, and Leroy Davis, which ran 1:30.

–Terry Rogers of Hilltop turned in a 1:54.4 880 and barely minutes later tried to double in the 440, finishing last.   Sweetwater won the 880 relay in 1:33.4 and the meet, 59-54.

–Oceanside’s Ira Raibon high jumped 6-2 and long jumped 23-2 and Bill Reilly put the shot 55 feet in Oceanside’s 74-52 win over Orange Glen.

4/22/66

George Brown was almost 10 feet better than his father.

The senior Brown, an El Cajon doctor and former all-America football player at Navy, set a Hoover High record of 51 feet, 11 inches, in the shot put in 1941.

The younger George III, a muscular 220 pounds, heaved the 12-pound ball 60-10 ½, seventh best in County history, and defending champion Granite Hills stayed alive in the Grossmont dual-meet race with Grossmont and Helix.

The Eagles, who lost to Grossmont, 67-64, last week, defeated favored Helix, 70 ½-60 ½.  With the meet in the balance, Granite Hills’ Donald Evans anchored a 1:30.2 victory in the 880 relay after topping the Highlanders’ Ralph Lavage in :09.9 and :22.2 in the sprints.

Granite’s Bruce Rickett’s (:49.5) edged Helix’ Ron Koenig (:49.8) in the fastest 440 in the area this season.

–Armando Valencia’s 9:15.7 two-mile was the fastest this year in California and left Valencia and his coach Joe Brooks wondering.

“If Danielson and Rogers run the mile and 880, we might go in the two-mile,” said Brooks. “It would really give our area a real shot at three first places in the state meet.”

–Point Loma ended Mission Bay’s two-year rule in the Western League, 75-38, and will meet Kearny for the title next week.

Grossmont (5-0) must get past Helix (4-1) for an outright Grossmont title next week.

Lincoln, 91-14 over St. Augustine, goes for the Eastern crown against Morse, 61-52 over San Diego, next week.

Chula Vista, 81-32 over Hilltop, and Sweetwater, 95-17 over Escondido, will settle matters in the Metropolitan League.

4/29/66

Grossmont nipped Helix, 67-64;  Lincoln rolled Morse, 80-33; Chula Vista edged Sweetwater, 59-54, and Point Loma routed Kearny, 74 ½-38 ½, to either claim league titles outright or face only virtual formalities in the final week of dual meets next week.

–Grossmont secured its win over Helix with a 1:30.8 victory in the relay.  Crawford did the same in a 58-54 thriller with San Diego as Danny Patton anchored a 1:29.8 win after taking the 220 in :21.8 on the Balboa Stadium curve.  The Colts’ Jim (Big Game) Hunter ran :14.8 in the 120-yard highs.

–Terry Rogers threw down on the state’s 880-yard run aspirants with his 1:53.2, which tied Tim Danielson’s area season best.

–Rick Geer set a Monte Vista record with a 162-8 discus throw and doubled with a 50-11 shot put.  Granite Hills’ George Brown heaved the shot 59-4 and teammate Mike Bimer set a school record with a discus throw of 160 feet.

–Tom Danielson jogged a :50.4 440, teammate Johnston ran a 1:59.7 880, Jim Baldwin hurled the shot 54-6 1/4, and Don French covered the 120 high hurdles in :14.7, all of which helped Chula Vista to a 61-51 win over Sweetwater,  which embraced a school-record 22-11 1/4 long jump by Jim Rice, minimally longer than Burte Jackson’s 22-10 1/2 in 1965.

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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 into the summer.

Following a two-mile victory on June 18 in Sacramento’s Golden West Invitational, Danielson also ran the mile  in the National AAU meet in New York, running nonwinning 4:07.4 in the trials on June 25 and 4:03.3 in the finals on June 26.

Danielson’s last significant event was the Police Games in Toronto, Canada, where he ran 4:03.9, in late July.

Steel, who set a national record in the long jump, and Rogers, the national No. 1 runner in the 880, made for a tremendous San Diego Section season.

5/6/66

Tim Danielson ran the two-mile in 9:04.7, fastest ever in the county and No. 6 in the country this season, as Chula Vista wrapped the Metropolitan League dual meet championship, 87-26, over visiting Mar Vista.

Grossmont claimed the Grossmont League dual-meet title with a 90-41 win over El Cajon Valley, whose Armando Valencia posted a 4:12.9 mile.

Danielson will drop the two-mile for the mile and Valencia will leave the mile for the two-mile in league meets.

Granite Hills’ George Brown put the shot 60 feet, 5 ½ inches;

Chula Vista’s Don French ran :14.4 in the 120-yard high hurdles;

Sweetwater’s Bill Yahnke logged a :09.9 100 and :21.5 220 on the notoriously breezy Castle Park straightaway.

EASTERN LEAGUE TRIALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

Otis Martin shaved more than 25 seconds off his two-mile time with a 9:16.1 and Lincoln teammate David Edwards cleared the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.3.

Edwards equaled the league record set by Jimmy Fox in 1964 and Martin smashed his 9:41.3 in the 1965 meet.

The Hornets led with 23 qualifiers, followed by San Diego (18), Hoover (16), Morse (15), Crawford (13), and St. Augustine (8).

Class B field event finals saw Hoover’s Lance Ruff set a record of 50-9 ½ in the shotput, more than 6 feet further than the 44-5 ¾ by Jerry Darr of St. Augustine in 1963.

Mike Johnson of Lincoln pole vaulted 12-6, a foot higher than the 11-6 in 1963, ’64, and ’65 by representatives of three different schools.

Doug Jones of Lincoln high jumped 6-2 ¾, tying  Arnie Robinson’s 1964 Class B record.

WESTERN, @CLAIREMONT

Point Loma’s Bob Chavez set a 220 record of :21.7, erasing the :21.8 by Clairemont’s John Procsal in 1963.

The 4:26.3 mile by Barry Richardson of Kearny was better than the 4:27.5 by La Jolla’s Jeff Dragila in 1965.

Frank Heitman of Clairemont ran 1:58.9 in the 880, gutsy and notable because Heitman’s dislocated shoulder was harnessed after an injury sustained playing volleyball.

5/9/66

GROSSMONT, @GROSSMONT COLLEGE

Dan Ungricht of Monte Vista tied the 880 record of 1:56.6 by El Capitan’s Tad Hendrickson in 1964.

That Ungricht was wearing shoes did not fit the category of breaking news.

Footwear was not new to the Spring Valley community, where Ungricht lived, but was seldom the choice of the Monarchs’ runner or his distance-running teammates.

“In cross country we always go barefooted,” said Ungricht.  “Your feet feel lighter.”

Ungricht said he usually dumped his shoes for the longer races.

The prospect of going barefoot didn’t appeal in shorter events.

Granite Hills’ Donald Evans, appropriately shod, tied a record he shared with two others when he ran :09.9 in the 100.

METROPOLITAN, @MAR VISTA

The :14.6 in the 120 high hurdles by Chula Vista’s Don French broke the record of :14.7 by El Cajon Valley’s Dave Landis in 1960.

5/15/64

FINALS

METROPOLITAN

Tim Danielson, in a rare attempt at the 440, was first in :50.2 and added a 4:13.3 mile as Chula Vista ran away with the team championship with 63 points to runner-up Sweetwater’s 29.

The evening’s top mark was the U.S.-leading 1:51.8 by Hilltop’s Terry Rogers in the 880.

“No one told me my time at the 660 mark,” Rogers told Bill Weurding of the Evening Tribune, “so I was running mentally, according to the way I felt.  I didn’t believe it was that fast.  I still can’t believe it.”

GROSSMONT

Granite Hills outscored Helix, 66-58, fired by a triple win from sprinter Donald Evans, who won the 100 in :10, 220 in :23.2, and anchored a 1:30.3 victory in the 880 relay.

Evans’ teammate, George Brown, set a record with a 60-7 1/2 shot put.

Mount Miguel’s Pat Ela doubled with a 13-foot, 7-inch pole vault and a record 23-3 long jump.

Dan Ungricht of Monte Vista ran the 880 in 1:56.5, knocking 1/10 off the record he tied in the trials.

Rick Olander, the leading pole vaulter at 14-7, was byed into the CIF trials because of an injury.

AVOCADO

Vista’s Rick Fox set the pace with a 4:20.8 mile but Oceanside won the team championship with 49 points to the arch-rival Panthers’ 18.

PALOMAR

Mike Turnipseed, a Class B entry for Carlsbad, won the 100 in :09.8 and 220 in :21.7.

EASTERN

Several jumpers of beyond 23 feet would be cut to three for the San Diego Section trials.

Lewis King of Lincoln won at 24 feet, 2 ¾ inches.  Henry Woods of San Diego was second at 23-4 ¾ and Morse’s Arnie Robinson, who had a best of 24 feet, was third at 23-3.

Missing was San Diego’s Doyle Steel, who earlier had gone 23-9 ¾ but was sidelined with an ankle injury.

It was revealed that Eastern League coaches had voted prior to the meet to bye Steel into the CIF trials.  Robinson, who would win the 1976 Olympics gold medal, was out.

CIF commissioner Don Clarkson dismissed complaints, saying they were “league matters”.

SAN DIEGO SECTION TRIALS

5/22/66

About 450 competitors descended upon Balboa Stadium, where at the end of the day four records had been set, one tied, and the number of survivors for the finals was winnowed down to approximately 265 in 33 varsity, Class B and C events.

Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson continued undefeated and unchallenged, setting a section mile record of 4:08.2, closing in on his best of 4:08 in the 1965 state meet and better than Danielson’s 4:08.7 in the ‘65 San Diego Section trials.

Tall Point Loma junior Bob Chavez, bothered off and on since last season by a muscle pull, barged into the sprint conversation with a record :21.5 on the stadium’s curved 220, topping Byron Olander’s :21.6 in 1964.

Chavez, 10 yards behind on the anchor exchange, also caught and passed Granite Hills’ Donald Evans and brought the Pointers home in a Lincoln-and-San Diego-like 1:28.5 in the 880 relay.

SIBLINGS

Morse’s Harold Greenwood, younger brother of Hoover’s Norris and Lincoln’s Larry, tied the 1964 high jump mark of 6-8 by Hoover’s Eddy Hanks.

Carlsbad’s Mike Turnipseed ran the B 100 in :09.9, knocking down the :10 flat Turnipseed had run a year before.

Lincoln’s Doug Jones high jumped 6 feet, 5 inches, to improve on the B record of 6-2 3/4 by Arnie Robinson in 1964 and Jones the previous week.

Johnny Mack Ellis and Ted Scales of Lincoln were individual double winners.

Ellis ran :09.7 and :21.8 in the 100 and 220.  Scales tied with teammate David Edwards in :15.1 in the 120 high hurdles and won a 180 lows heat in :20.1.

Terry Rogers of Hilltop won one 880 heat in 1:52.3 and Tom Eklund of St. Augustine took the other in 1:53.3.

Lincoln led all varsity qualifiers with 17, Oceanside had 11 (to Lincoln’s 10) in the Bees, and Grossmont led the way with 9 (to Lincoln’s 8) in the Cees.

SAN DIEGO SECTION FINALS, @BALBOA STADIUM

5/29/66

Tim Danielson and Terry Rogers were forced to give up the limelight to the glare that was coming from the long jump pit.

Lincoln’s Lewis King drew a roar from the crowd of about 4,000 when he soared 24-5 1/4 early in the competition.

Doyle Steel, an injured nonparticipant in the Eastern League meet two weeks before and then quietly byed into the trials, suddenly became airborne and landed at a national-record 25 feet, 5 ½ inches, 1/4 inch beyond what a jumper from Pacific Grove, California, did in 1964.

Steel, whose jump could have been declared a foul, because he walked back through the pit before exiting, had gone a foot and a half further than his previous best of 23-11 ½.

Lincoln, paced  by Johnny Mack Ellis’ 0:9.8 100, :21.4 220, and anchor of the winning 880 relay team that tied the record of 1:27.2,  scored 65 points to 15 each by runners-up Chula Vista and Granite Hills.

RECORDS

TWO-MILE RUN

New: 9:10.8, Armando Valencia, El Cajon Valley.  Old: 9:17.8, Otis Martin, Lincoln, 1965.

120-YARD HIGH HURDLES

New: :14.2, David Edwards, Lincoln.  Old:  :14.4, Mike Swaim, Oceanside, 1963; Harold Burt, Morse, 1965.

HIGH JUMP

New:  6-8 ¼, Harold Greenwood, Morse.  Old:  6-8, Eddy Hanks, Hoover, 1964.

LONG JUMP

New:  25-5 ¼, Doyle Steel, San Diego.  Old: 24-5 1/4, Lewis King, Lincoln, 1966.

220

New:  :21.4, Johnny Mack Ellis, Lincoln.  Old: :21.5, Bob Chavez, Point Loma, 1966.

MILE

New: 4:06.2, Tim Danielson, Chula Vista.  Old:  4:08.2, Danielson, 1966.

880 RELAY

Tie:  1:27.2,  Lincoln (Lewis King, Leroy Davis, David Edwards, Johnny Mack Ellis).  Lincoln, 1962; San Diego, 1963.

STATE TRIALS, @BERKELEY

6/5/66

Lincoln had eight athletes in eight events and a total of 11 entries.

The Hornets were given a chance to win the team championship, although Los Angeles Dorsey and Pasadena Muir were favored, having come through the larger, more competitive L.A. City and Southern sections.

San Diego Section entries met with success in the Friday afternoon portion of the meet at 22,000-seat Edwards Stadium on the University of California campus.

Terry Rogers, Tim Danielson and Doyle Steele won their preliminary tests, as did Lincoln’s Johnny Mack Ellis, first in one of the 100-yard dashes.

Lincoln pole vaulter Mike Johnson was among qualifiers at 13-3 ½ in the pole vault.

The top three finishers in each of three heats and usually 11 or 12 in field events moved on to the finals. Parenthesis indicate place in respective heats, with San Diego Section qualifiers in italics.

NAME, SCHOOL	EVENT	TIME	LEADER
Ellis, Lincoln	100	:09.9 (1)	:09.8, Hill, Stockton Edison; Masters, El Cerrito; Underwood, L.A. Dorsey.
Belle, Lincoln		:10.0 (4)
Chavez, Point Loma	220	:20.9w (3)	Underwood, L.A. Dorsey. :20.5.
Ellis		:21.2 (2)
Ricketts, Granite Hills	440	:50.5 (9)	:47.5, Collett, Gardena.
Quinn, Lincoln		:50.3 (6)
Rogers, Hilltop	880	1:52.7 (1)
Eklund, St. Augustine		1:53.6 (3T)
Danielson, Chula Vista	Mile	4:18.7 (1)	Mattingly, L.A. Loyola, 4:15.9
Fox, Vista		4:21.1 (4)
Edwards, Lincoln	120HH	:14.2 (2)	Parish, L.A. Dorsey, :13.9.
Scales, Lincoln		:14.5 (4)
King, Lincoln	180LH	:20.2 (7)	Farmer, La Puente, :18.6.
Edwards		:19.0 (4)
Robinson, Morse	High Jump	6-4 (12T)	11 at 6-6.
Greenwood, Morse		6-4 (12T)
Steel, San Diego	Long Jump	24-3 ¾ (1)
King		22-11 ½ (11)
Brown, Granite Hills	Shot Put	58-6 ½ (9)	64-¼, Hubbell, Long Beach Poly
Rielly, Oceanside		49-8 (24)
Johnson, Lincoln	Pole Vault	13-3 ½ (1T)
Griffiths, Mar Vista		13-0 (17T)
Gold, Grossmont	Discus	156-8 /1/2 (14)	183-4 /12, Peters, Piedmont
Geer, Monte Vista		Fouled 4 throws
Point Loma	880 Relay	1:29.1 (3)	1:27.3, Garden Grove Bolsa Grande
Lincoln		1:28.7 (3)	1:27.5, L.,A. Manual Arts

6/6/66

FINALS

Tim Danielson, Doyle Steel, and Terry Rogers helped produce a San Diego Section record three gold medals, but Lincoln finished far down the pack with 3 points, two for Johnny Mack Ellis’ fourth place in the 100 and one for Otis Martin’s fifth in the two-mile run.

Rogers began the day holding off a late charge by Karl Henry of Rialto Eisenhower to win the 880 in 1:51.5, same time as the runner-up.

Steel had to rally on his last jump, reaching 25 feet, 3 1/4, to finally beat back the challenge of L.A. Loyola’s Henry Harris, who was leading in the final flight of jumpers at 24 -7 ¼.

Danielson was taking on superstar status.  He won the mile by at least 35 yards in a state meet record of 4:07.    Second place finisher Wally Mattingly of L.A. Loyola clocked 4:13.4.

San Diego Section scorers in italics.

NAME	SCHOOL	EVENT	TIME	WINNER
Johnny Mack Ellis	Lincoln	100	:09.7 (4)	:09.6, Underwood, L.A. Dorsey
Ellis		220	:22.0 (6)
Bob Chavez	Point Loma		:22.1 (6)
Terry Rogers,	Hilltop	880	1:51.5 (1)
Tom Eklund	St. Augustine		1:57.4 (10)
Tim Danielson	Chula Vista	Mile	4:07 (1)
Otis Martin	Lincoln	Two-Mile	9:10.1 (5)	9:01.6, Gamez, Berkeley
Armando Valencia	El Cajon Valley		Did not finish
David Edwards	Lincoln	120HH	:14.7 (8)	:13.9, Parish, L.A. Dorsey
Doyle Steel	San Diego	Long Jump	25-3 ¼ (1)
Lewis King	Lincoln		23-2 (6)
George Brown	Granite Hills	Shot Put	58-7 ¼ (8)	66-11, Hubbell, Long Beach Poly
Mike Johnson	Lincoln	Pole Vault	13-0 (14T)	15-3/4, Meyers, Sacramento Foothill
	Point Loma	880 Relay	1:33.4 (7)	1:26.4, Pasadena Muir
	Lincoln		Did not finish.

6/11/66

Danielson, Rogers, and Steel each competed in the San Diego Invitational, which included former Olympians and an international field.

Danielson continued to rock, finishing fourth in the mile in 3:59.4 and becoming the second high school runner after Jim Ryun in 1964 to break four minutes.

Terry Rogers was last in a six-man 880 field but his 1:50.4 was No. 6 all-time in the U.S.

Doyle Steel jumped 24-5 ½, behind Ralph Boston’s winning 25-3 and Gayle Hopkins 24-11, but Steele impressed track and field expert Dick Bank of Los Angeles.

“He looks like the guy who could take (world record holder) Boston’s place,” said Bank.

“This is the thing that impresses me,” Bank said of Steel, “the conditions weren’t good but he was jumping right with those guys.”

6/18/66

Danielson set a record of 8:55.4 in the two-mile at the Golden West Invitational for athletes from California and the U.S. in Sacramento.

Steele won the long jump at 25-5 and Rogers was the winner in the 880 at 1:51.8.crol

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Thirty-three boys, counting one for relays, posted 43 marks that made the state Top 25 in the standard 16 events, as noted by Athletic.net.  Numbers in parenthesis represent placement.

EVENT	NAME	MARK	STATE
100	Tucker, Lincoln	:10.51w, (17T), :10.54 (21T)	:10.14, Pleasant, Gardena Serra
	Priest, Maranatha	:10.56 (23T)
200	Brock, Cathedral	:21.40 (20)	:20.40, Pleasant
	Tucker, Lincoln	:21.47w (22), :21.74
400	Parker, Helix	:46.82 (3)	:46.75, Goode, Santa Clarita West Ranch
	Brotschi, Otay Ranch	:48.12 (12T)
800	Harder, San Marcos	1:51.90 (9)	1:48.84, C. Sahlman, Newbury Park
	Thomas, Torrey Pines	1:52.34 (10)
	Gilmore, Sage Creek	1:52.93 (16)
	Taylor, San Marcos	1:53.87 (20)
1600	Taylor	4:11.87 (17)	3:59.32, Young, Newbury Park
3200	Gilmore	8:53.23 (7)
	Bowlds, Patrick Henry	9:00.32 (20)
	Pala, Francis Parker	9:01.43 (24)
110 Hurdles	Thomas, Mission Hills	:14.83	:13.35, Marshall, Stockton St. Mary’s
300 Hurdles	Atilano, Cathedral	:38.78, (16T)	:36.73, Marshall
	Nelson, Patrick Henry	:38.93 (19)
	Thomas	:39.42 (25)
4×100 Relay	Mission Hills	:41.70 (15)	:40.63, Fresno Central
	Helix	:41.75 (17)
4×400 Relay	Helix	3:15.79 (5)	3:13.87, L.A. Cathedral
	San Marcos	3:19.97 (12)
High Jump	Gillis, Steele Canyon	6-9 (1T)	6-9, Johnson, San Bernardino Cajon
	Cheeks, Mission Bay	6-8 (3T)
	Cardoza, Eastlake	6-8 (3T)
	Meisterlin, Fallbrook	6-7 (10)
Long Jump	Tucker, Lincoln	23-11 (5)	24-9 ½, Stevenson, Temecula Great Oak
	Matovu, Helix	23-3 1/2w (16), 23-2 1/2
	Cheeks	23-2 ½ (17T)
	Saunders, Cathedral	23-2 ½ (17T)
Triple Jump	Detling, Poway	47-9 (4)	48-6, Stevenson
	Buu, Eastlake	47-6 (6)
	Shotomide, St. Augustine	46-10 ¼ (11)
	Cheeks	46-3 (17)
	Gillis	45-10 (22)
	Cardoza	45-9 (24)
Shot Put	Miller, El Camino	59-11 ¾ (7)	66-10, Moran, Murietta Mesa
	Lopez, El Centro Southwest	59-11 (8)
	Martinez, Vista	58-3 ¼ (10)
	Holmes, Del Norte	56-5 (14)
Pole Vault	Rydbeck, Rancho Bernardo	14-11 (23T)	16-9, O’Brien, Eastvale Roosevelt
	Emerson, Sage Creek	14-11 (23T)
	Richards, Poway	14-11 (23T)
Discus	Lopez	175-4 (15)	207-4, Moran

Forty-five girls, counting one for relays, posted 54 marks that made the state Top 25 in the standard 16 events, as noted by Athletic.net.  Numbers in parenthesis represent placement.

EVENT	NAME/SCHOOL	MARK	STATE
100	Shaheed, Madison	:11.66 (4)	:11.45, Redmond, Carson
	McCormick, Scripps Ranch	:11.71w (3), :11.76 (11)
	Hatton, Sage Creek	:11.91w (21T), :12.18
200	Bean, Poway	:24.25 (8)	:23.82, :23.65w, Currie, Santa Clarita Golden Valley
	Shaheed	:24.45 (15)
400	Bean	:55.09 (8)	:53.19, Cenci, Clovis North
	Cramer, The Bishop’s	:56.21(18)
	Smith, La Jolla	:56.33 (22)
	Herbst, Carlsbad	:56.39 (25)
800	Buswell, Poway	2:09.54 (7)	2:05.66, Engelhardt, Ventura
	Cramer, The Bishop’s	2:11.24 (13)
	Riggins, Del Norte	2:11.60 (18)
	Farmer, Rancho Bernardo	2:11.94 (19)
	Arciaga, Westview	2:11.98 (21)
1600	Riggins	4:46.97 (8)
	Rogers, Poway	4:48.75 (11)	4:33.29, Engelhardt
3200	Rogers	10:17.91 (9)	9:50.9, Engelhardt
	Lopizzo, La Costa Canyon	10:25.46 (15)
100 Hurdles	McCormick	:13.46w (1), :13.61
	James, San Diego	:13.67 (2)
	Coleman, Cathedral	:14.05 (7)	:14.00, Harris, Stockton Lincoln; Davis, Upland
	Bowen-Fontenot, San Diego	:14.95 (25)
300 Hurdles	Coleman	:42.19 (1)	:42.37, Ruelas, Arroyo Grande
	K. Janik, Torrey Pines	:42.38 (3)
	James	:42.71 (5)
	McCormick	:43.31 (8)
	D. Janik, Torrey Pines	:43.38 (10)
	Medley, Del Norte	:44.37 (15)
4×100	Cathedral	:48.16 (25)	:45.82, Santa Clarita Golden Valley
4×400 Relay	Poway	3:49.93 6)	3:43.87, Long Beach Wilson
	Del Norte	3:53.12 (10)
	Carlsbad	3:54.87 (12)
	Torrey Pines	3:54.94 (13)
High Jump	Tarczy, Scripps Ranch	5-7 (9T)	5-10, Elie, Rocklin Whitney
	Moore-Bastide, Eastlake	5-7 (9T)
	Roberts, Westview	5-5 (19)
Long Jump	Hatton Sage Creek	19-1 1/4w (13), 18-8 1/4	20-8 1/2w, 19-11 ¾, Vanek, Clovis
Triple Jump	Pingley, El Camino	38-4 ¾ (17)	41-3, Hope, Riverside King
	Miles, Point Loma	38-2 ¼ (20)
Pole Vault	Evans, Scripps Ranch	14-0 (T1)	14-0, Muhammad, Dublin
	Leigh, Del Norte	13-7 (4)
	Thomson, Poway	13-3 (5)
	Wagner, Fallbrook	13-0 (9T)
	Hansen, San Dieguito	12-9 (11T)
	Quiroz, Rancho Bernardo
	Downing, La Costa Canyon
	O’Connor, Rancho Bernardo	12-3 (18)
	Hilliard, Poway	12-2 (19T)
	de Jong, Maranatha	12-0 (23T)
Shot Put	Clarke, Cathedral	47-5 (1)	45-4 ½. Gordon, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
Discus	Clarke	147-9 (4)	Fields, Caruthers, 162-7
	Seaboldt, Mt. Carmel	133-8 (13)
	Loy, Del Norte	131-6 (20)
	Mulic, Eastlake	129-3 (23)