Category Archives: football
What We Think: State Roundup 10/18
No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 2 St. John Bosco set up their annual regular season showdown with wins on Friday night in the Trinity League. Big NorCal winners on the night included state No. 6 De La Salle, No. 22 St. Francis of Mountain View and unranked but soon to be on the bubble […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
It’s been a couple of weeks since we were able to do these rankings due to travels in Europe, but we’re back and will be ranking teams now for the rest of 2024 season. There were changes for medium schools based on teams that had to go up into the overall State TOP 50, but...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Apologies for missing one week of these rankings last week, but we’re back from a trip to London and Paris and we’ll be going at full strength for the rest of the 2024 season. There was some shuffling among the top five teams since the last rankings mostly due to Servite of Anaheim getting a...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
The highest rising newcomer compared to the previous rankings is unbeaten Simi Valley, especially after its win two weeks ago vs St. Bonaventure. Also new is Downey, Long Beach Millikan, San Jacinto and Yorba Linda. Up five spots from last time is Rocklin and St. Mary’s of Stockton. San Juan Hills is up six. TO...
State Football Players of the Week
It’s a bit of a twist to get this week started with the players of the week going first followed by new updated State TOP 50 Football Rankings that are broken down with each team. We’re still getting back to normal from travels to Europe. No matter, we still have some state record related honorees […]
FB: Rectroactive All-State Primer
All-State football teams from Cal-Hi Sports have now been extended back to the 1960 season with new teams added from the 1979 season going backward based on research. Many of the players are well-known and there is a plethora of future NFL greats. A deeper look reveals plenty of players who were standouts at other […]
CA’s Active Wins Leader Retiring
Bill Foltmer is a pillar of the Middletown community and will retire from coaching football as California’s active wins leader. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi Sports.com. For our state rankings packages in football plus State Stat Stars of the Week, state record updates and special features, please check out our Gold […]
What We Saw: DLS Wins In London
In the first-ever game played by a California high school football team in Europe, state No. 6 De La Salle of Concord completed a five-day trip to London with a 31-9 win over the NFL Academy team at Tottenham Hot Spur Stadium. Go inside for our unique experience of covering this game and how the […]
State Football Players of the Week
With Cal-Hi Sports Executive Editor Mark Tennis in Europe and covering the De La Salle game from London this week, we had to dig deeper to select this week’s six State Football Players of the Week. It turns out after we reached out to our friends and reliable media sources in both Northern and Southern […]
