Category Archives: State Record Book
State Football Players of the Week
For the second straight week, we’re subbing for executive editor Mark Tennis who is frolicking in Scandinavia by posting the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Players of the Week. We didn’t get as many nominations this week with a lot of top teams with byes, and that means we didn’t have a big number of performances […]
Naming Schools Not What It Used To Be
The recent furor over the name of Cesar Chavez as the name of a California high school may not be over, but it seems like it’s going to end with one school switching, one school sort of switching and the other staying put. We have a primer on who are the most popular persons that...
Eli Dukes: Hazardous to Palma’s foes
From attending the football practices his father coached and anxiously waiting this season for his own opportunity to put on the pads due to a pulled hamstring, Eli Dukes from Palma High of Salinas has built his career on competition, hard work and the support of his family. Dukes entered his senior season with 5,683 […]
State Football Players of the Week
This week we return to doing the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Players of the Week with executive editor Mark Tennis on Holiday. We asked for help from statewide media sources and others on X and got several nominations. We also saw one of the award winners live on our trip to Northern California last week. […]
50 Yrs Ago: Bells vs SI Revisted
Fifty years ago this season, one of the most controversial football games ever played in the Bay Area saw Bellarmine of San Jose edge St. Ignatius of San Francisco, 16-15 in overtime, to decide the powerhouse West Catholic Athletic League title. We have a recollection from the current football information director at state No. 1...
State Records, Stat Stars & More
Here’s where to go for updates to the exclusive Cal-Hi Sports state records, where we’ll post individual stat star highlights plus perhaps some comments or two on the hottest topics sweeping through social media. We start with a look at Manteca High celebrating its 100th season at its first home game last Friday. What other...
State Football Players of the Week
We begin in Huntington Beach for a player who would have tied a state record if all three of his kick return touchdowns in one game were all on punts or all on kickoffs. Our other SoCal honorees this week are from San Diego and Baldwin Park. For Northern California, we have our first-ever winner […]
25 Years Ago: September 11, 2001
High school football teams on that horrible week 25 years ago today adapted and reflected and many of them will never forget what happened since several of them had former players who were killed. We take a look back through magazine articles we edited that year for Student Sports Magazine. We had a writer at […]
The 10,000-Yard, 100-TD Club
It takes playing very early in one’s high school varsity career and being very good for a quarterback to either pass for 10,000 yards in a career or pass for 100 career touchdowns. As a celebration to updating all of our state passing records, here’s an all-time list of all of those quarterbacks who have […]
