With the first class of 100 inductees going into the new California High School Football Hall of Fame in mind (opening next month), here’s a look at lists of the all-time top players from each of the 10 sections within the California Interscholastic Federation. These are based on the first votes for the Hall of […]
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State Defensive POY: Justin Flowe
Regarded as the best linebacker in the nation and one of the best in California for the past 20 years, Upland’s Justin Flowe adds top defensive honors for the state to his growing list of honors, including the Butkus Award that is given to the nation’s most outstanding linebacker.
All-Decade Football: 1990s
CalHiSports.com has been covering the best of California prep sports for over 40 years and in that time we’ve seen some great players on football fields in every corner of the state. Some lived up to all the hype surrounding them as prep players, while others never were able to duplicate their high school production...
State Defensive POY: Henry To’oto’o
Hard-hitting linebacker from De La Salle of Concord becomes the sixth player from that storied program to get top defensive honors for California. Those who saw him play on a broken foot in the CIF Open Division state final may not have seen him at his best, especially when the Spartans shut out CIF Division […]
DLS vs. MD: History & More
It’s only been five times that the Spartans and Monarchs have played in a football game entering this weekend’s CIF Open Division state championship at Cerritos College. After suffering four losses in as many years when the two began a series in the late 1990s, last year’s CIF Open Division victory by the Monarchs was […]
All-Time State Player Rankings (LBs)
Here’s the latest in this series that was begun last year with QBs, RBs and WRs and picked back up again recently with offensive linemen and defensive linemen. The DBs will be done soon as well. All of these lists will be included in the back of our upcoming book “High School Football in California”...
State Super 55: No. 1 to No. 10
It almost had to be a De La Salle team at the top and our pick as the Spartans’ best in a close call was from 2001. Others in this top group include Rialto Eisenhower of 1993, Vallejo of 1954 and San Jose Bellarmine for 1965. Note:it All of the writeups, grid logs, photos and...
All-State Football Archives 1980-2023
This is the place to go to find all of the previous all-state football teams (first team overall & second team overall) that Cal-Hi Sports has presented since 1980, which is the first season when these teams were chosen by Mark Tennis (still in college then) and our founder, the late Nelson Tennis. Note: To...
New Honor: State Defensive POY
We are adding a new statewide yearly honor to our parade of them at this time of the year and it will salute the most outstanding defensive player of the year in the state. The first honoree is defensive back Iman “Biggie” Marshall of Long Beach Poly. And since Iman comes from a school that’s […]
