This list has been updated again to reflect the 2023 Heisman Trophy ceremony in New York when San Bernardino Cajon’s Jayden Daniels won college football’s highest honor. Go inside to see which national honorees starting from Glenn Davis of Army winning the Heisman Trophy in 1946 to the present day went to California high schools. […]
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SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This week we remind readers that besides looking for diamonds in the rough and unknown talent, we also use this feature for honoring and acknowledging entries in the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book and this week we have a player who qualifies in both categories. For our Record Book entry, we start not far from […]
Preseason San Diego Sec FB Team
Our next stop in our tour of the state with these preseason all-area honors is for the CIF San Diego Section. Preseason state No. 5 Cathedral Catholic has four players on first team, but is surpassed by Lincoln (which has five). There also is strong representation from St. Augustine, Torrey Pines and Mater Dei Catholic....
Preseason STATE TOP 50 (Part 2)
This group of potentially great teams from California starts with a look at two of the Lincoln high schools — from San Diego and Stockton — placed right next to each other. There are other schools in this mix who may have a bit more to replace than those in the first 25 and some […]
1ST LOOK: Five-Division FB Rankings
With no upcoming playoffs to consider and limited games, it’s super-hard to do rankings in this same five-division format that was begun more than 40 years ago by Cal-Hi Sports founder Nelson Tennis. But it was super-hard for all of the players and coaches to be able to play at all during this school year […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
De La Salle and Servite flip-flop at No. 3 and No. 4, but there are no other changes in the top 10 even though both Cathedral Catholic and Sierra Canyon deserve to go up. This week’s two major movers are Rocklin from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and Buchanan from the CIF Central Section. Nice bumps...
All-Time All-State Medium FB Teams
Several days after doing a feature on the all-time all-state small schools football teams, we are following up with the best-ever grads from California’s medium-sized schools. With Firebaugh’s Josh Allen playing in the AFC title game on Sunday, the medium schools group is led by another NFL QB still playing this week — probable league...
Goal-Setting From An NFL All-Timer
As many high school football players now know they’ll be training mostly on their own for another few months before the start of their next season, writing down goals and looking at them every day can be a very positive experience. A great example we know of is from Larry Allen, one of the greatest […]
FINAL State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Some of the teams in this group figure to be way up there for the 2020 preseason rankings, such as No. 28 Alemany (Mission Hills). We also have big bumps at the end for CIF D2-AA state champ Clayton Valley and a team with a head-to-head win over the Ugly Eagles. The only two newcomers...
