Category Archives: Football Blog
Salute to Herb Meyer
Records can always be broken, but no one will ever take away the milestone achievement when longtime head football coach Herb Meyer won the 300th game of his career while coaching at El Camino High in Oceanside in the early 2000s. He became the first football coach in state history to reach 300 career wins […]
Best Cal Grads Now In NFL
California has always been a sports-driven state, with some of the wealthiest and most prominent professional and collegiate teams driving thousands of fans to the stadiums year in and year out. And the University of California, Berkeley, isn’t the exception to that rule.
Salute to Pete Saco
The longtime commissioner of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section (from 1996 to 2014) died last weekend after a long battle with cancer. His impact on high school athletics will be felt for decades not just in his section but throughout the state. For the more than 40 years in which we’ve come to know many of […]
Attn: Senior FB Players
If there was one thing that the late, legendary football coach Terry Donahue understood it was recruiting players to colleges and how a graduating senior may be unknown but still very much interested in maximizing opportunities to play at the next level. TO SIGN UP FOR THIS YEAR’S CALIFORNIA FOOTBALL SHOWCASE, CLICK HERE. That’s partly […]
All-State FB Patch List For Juniors
Congratulations to the following players listed in alphabetical order who have been selected to either first team, second team or third team on the 2022 Cal-Hi Sports All-State Junior Football Teams for the fall season. These players and their families can now order an official all-state football patch plus you’ll get a certificate through our […]
All-State FB Patch List For Sophomores
Congratulations to the following players listed in alphabetical order who have been selected to either first team or second team on the 2022 Cal-Hi Sports All-State Sophomore Football Teams for the fall season. These players and their families can now order an official all-state football patch plus you’ll get a certificate through our partners at […]
Salute to Charles White
We take a look back at the high school career of San Fernando High School great Charles White, who died this week at age 64 from liver cancer. White was a legend in the San Fernando Valley, and reached iconic status around the state when he captured the 1979 Heisman Trophy at USC as part […]
State Defensive POY: Deven Bryant
St. John Bosco linebacker adds a statewide honor to two big more local ones that he’s already received. He’s also the first-ever State Defensive POY from his school, but the third in a row from the Trinity League.
CIF State Football Title Game MVPs
We have picked one for every game we’ve seen since the first one of the modern era in 2006, and have chosen one based on posted stats & media coverage for every other state final. Perhaps the hardest one this year was in the Open Division, but it just had to be a member of […]
Recaps: CIF Saturday Finals (NorCal)
For all of the games played on a rainy, often muddy night in Northern California on Saturday, two of the teams traveling from SoCal were able to pull off wins — Laguna Hills in D3-A and Classical Academy of Escondido in D-6AA. None of the SoCal teams posted wins in these games last season. The […]
