Category Archives: football
FINAL All-State FB Noms (CIFSS)
We continue toward selection of the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams by updating lists of nominees based on input received from the first lists. More info also has come in from other sources. These players are all from the CIF Southern Section. Final nominees from NorCal sections have already been...
FINAL All-State Noms (Central-LA-SD)
We continue toward selection of the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams by updating lists of nominees based on input received from the first lists. More info also has come in from other sources. These players are all from the CIF Central, L.A. City & San Diego Section. Final nominees from...
FINAL All-State FB Nominees (NorCal)
The next step toward selection of the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams is updated lists of nominees based on input received from the first lists. More info also has come in from other sources. These players are all from the CIF sections in Northern California (except the Central Section). The...
State’s All-Time NFL Starting QBs (2024)
Here’s the all-time list of quarterbacks who have started at least one game in the NFL updated through the 2024 season. Rookie sensation Jayden Daniels of the Washington Commanders & Cajon High (San Bernardino) is the major new addition, but we picked up another one on Sunday’s final game of the regular season with Tanner...
2024 Football Coaching Highlights
A few days after we have begun with the first of our many state season honors, which was the 2024 state coaches of the year, we have updated the all-time state coaching leaders list. This is the one that has the names of just more than 140 through all the years of state history who […]
Raul Lara: State Football Coach of Year
First-year head coaches hardly ever get consideration for this honor, but Mater Dei’s Raul Lara isn’t just any first-year head coach. He joined the Monarchs after many years coaching at other schools, including a run of 13 seasons at Long Beach Poly in which he was almost State Coach of the Year before. Lara received […]
More State Football Coaches of Year
For taking a brand new school to records of 12-1 and 14-1 in just its second and third varsity seasons, Chris Bean from Twelve Bridges of Lincoln gains top state medium schools honor. For small schools, a coach who went 12-0 in his first season in 2009 at Carmel, Golden Anderson, and who just went […]
Top Football Duos In State History?
After seeing Mater Dei’s inside defensive tackles duo of Tomuhini Tupui and Semi Taulanga in the team’s first game vs St. John Bosco this season, it was tweeted out and they were told that they were the best pair of defensive tackles that we’d ever seen in 45 years of covering California high school football....
All-State Football Nominees (CIFSS)
The first part of the process of choosing the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams is now complete. This is the third of three lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2024 season squads. These are all from the CIF Southern Section. The first two were for Northern California […]
FINAL Divisional State FB Rankings
When the very first Cal-Hi Sports state football rankings were compiled in the late 1970s by founder Nelson Tennis, they were done in five divisions (Class AAAA, etc.). We don’t do these anymore during the season, but to keep the archives going so that we have a version of them for every season we have...
