A ribbon cutting ceremony for the new California High School Football Hall of Fame was held last weekend at the Rose Bowl. It will be open for public viewing starting this weekend. A gala induction ceremony for all of the initial inductees will be planned for the spring of 2024. FOR THE WRITEUP THAT INCLUDES […]
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State’s All-Time 100 Greatest Athletes (Men)
After Tom Brady of Serra High (San Mateo) earned a seventh Super Bowl title last week, we were inspired to write up our own rankings of the all-time greatest 100 athletes from California high schools. Based on CIF sanctioned sports only, we have Brady at No. 3 behind only Jackie Robinson and Bill Russell. McClymonds...
All-Time State Player Rankings (DBs)
Since spring football is now in full swing, here’s the final installment in this series that was begun last year with QBs, RBs and WRs and picked back up again recently with offensive linemen, defensive linemen and linebackers. We’ll do a short addition for TEs, PKs & punters soon. All of these lists will be...
Pac-12’s “12 Greatest” from Calif.
Later this summer, the Pac-12 Networks will introduce a new series “The 12 Greatest” in which one football player from each of the conference’s 12 schools will be crowned as the greatest player from that school’s history. Here’s a look at each university’s top candidates who are from California high schools and who have been […]
New Honor: State Defensive POY
We are adding a new statewide yearly honor to our parade of them at this time of the year and it will salute the most outstanding defensive player of the year in the state. The first honoree is defensive back Iman “Biggie” Marshall of Long Beach Poly. And since Iman comes from a school that’s […]
From Cali to Super Bowl (1980s)
Scan below for all reported players from California high schools who were on rosters of Super Bowl teams from 1980 to 1989. The record number of player is 25, set for the 1995 Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers and tied in 2008 when the Super Bowl involved the New...
