Category Archives: football
HS Football In California Quiz
This is a trivia challenge for any and all who think they have some knowledge about California prep football history. Have some fun and be sure next week to get your hands on our book, “High School Football In California,” at major bookstores or through Amazon.com.
Preseason CCS Football Team
Not surprisingly, a large number of players on both the first and second teams are from the three teams that all won CIF state bowl game titles last season plus additional standouts from the West Catholic Athletic League. Still, there were some fresh new faces last season and a couple of them are not from...
FB: State Record Updates (Part 2)
After completing state record updates for team winning streaks, losing streaks, team scoring and league win streaks, we’re jumping ahead to single season passing records for quarterbacks. We now have every reported QB in state history with 40 TD passes or more for one season and every reported QB in state history with 3,400 or […]
Preseason San Diego Sec FB Team
There were so many outstanding returning running backs that for this season we had to place four of them on offense with just one wide receiver, although there are those on defense and multi-purpose who can catch the ball as well. Schools with more than one player written up are Helix of La Mesa, Eastlake...
Preseason Sac-Joaquin Sec FB Team
This will be the sixth straight year that we are going to tour the state starting from now until the start of the 2018 football season by releasing preseason all-section, all-area and all-county football teams from eight of the 10 CIF sections (with San Francisco and Oakland included with other sections). We’re also once again...
State Athlete of Year: Gracie Figueroa
For the first time, we have an overall state girls athlete of the year who is mostly single-sport with that sport being wrestling. Selma’s Gracie Figueroa is not just a four-time CIF state champion, either. She can literally can call herself the best “pound-for-pound” athlete in the nation in her sport. And if you haven’t […]
More State Girls Athletes of the Year
Some of those selected to represent CIF divisions from D1 to D5 also were considered to be State Athlete of the Year, including quite rare softball-track standout Kelli Godin of Santa Ana Mater Dei (D1) and barrier-breaking football kicker and multi-sport athlete Emma Baker of Temecula Rancho Christian. Others landing top recognition include Simone Overbeck […]
FB Preseason: Class of ’20 Top 100
We still have a few more posts for 2017-18 school year honors, but are going to get serious with preseason football over the next four weeks, beginning today with a top 100 player ranking for the the Class of 2020. St. John Bosco quarterback D.J. Uigalelei isn’t unanimous as the No. 1 overall prospect of...
