One award winner was close to making the grade, but we didn’t have any entries this week to track for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the purposes of this feature, but we did satisfy the other object of the feature and that is to uncover some talent that in most […]
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Section By Section Football Greats
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 […]
Inside new Calif HS FB Hall of Fame list
On Monday, the CIF and the Rose Bowl announced the names of the 100 players and 13 coaches who will be part of the first inaugural class of the new California High School Football Hall of Fame. At Cal-Hi Sports, we were a key part of the voting process and were worried about a lack […]
Preseason State TOP 50 (Part 1)
These are the ones with more than 45 years of work behind them, but it’s so different for this spring season. Factors such as which teams are playing which teams and building a consensus of those who do local rankings will be more important in compiling these rankings than when it’s known there are going […]
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Part 2)
Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at three more of these teams in another short series we’re doing as we wait for the next football season to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of teams, we have the CIF San Diego Section, CIF Central Coast Section...
1981, ’94 & ’08 Season Replays (Week 8)
This is how the season looked after the eighth week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. No. 1 teams remained Edison of Huntington Beach, Bishop Amat of La Puente and Long Beach Poly. Those coming up included Marina...
Final All-State Noms (Central, LA, SD)
Thanks to all of the input from many coaches, parents and fans, here is an updated list of players from the CIF Central Section, CIF L.A. City Section and CIF San Diego Section from the first list. We’re now days away from picking the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. It’s still not too...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Even though we only had CIF section title games to choose from, our final edition with football players for this feature this season still has some memorable performances we’re honoring. This week’s winners are from Anaheim, Oceanside and Fullerton in Southern California and Milpitas, Ripon and Santa Rosa in Northern California. We hope you enjoy […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Wins by San Juan Hills (San Juan Capistrano) and Aquinas (San Bernardino) in CIF Southern Section finals actually caused a lot of changes in this week’s rankings. Not only did those two have to come in as newcomers, but so did some others. The list of six leads off with a team that beat San...
All-Decade Football: 1980s
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...
