Steve's Counterpoint: 70s were numero uno

This Blog was most helpful, your ideas are straight to the point, and the colors are cool too.

Thanks for the info Kurmugin,
I may have to take a trip to the tribune one of these day's. As for our local East SGV schools CIF titles in the 60's & 70's heres what the books say:
Bishop Amat 1961 2A Title over ST.Francis
Bishop Amat 1970 4A Title over Lakewood
Bishop Amat 1971 4A Title over Western

Los Altos 1972 3A Title over Santa Maria
Los Altos 1973 4A Title over Crespi
Los Altos 1976 4A Title over Fontana
Los Altos 1977 4A Title over St.Paul

South Hills 1974 4A Title over St.John Bosco

West Covina 1965 3A Title over Crespi

Royal Oak 1967 2A Title over Alta Loma

Dan, the only place I know where you get solid info on late 60s and early 70s ESGV prep records is the Tribune morgue, or archives, including anything on the WC Spartans and their Columbia Blue and white powers. Yeah, Spartans and light blue and white. The color and name change came the summer WC and Edgewood merged after declining enrollment triggered Edgewood's closure. Some unidentified braniacs determined the change was necessary to placate Woodies and keep frictions between the former foes at an absolute minimum. The East Valley in those years mirrors what is happening these years in the IE and OC. Amat routinely delivered championships, particularly in the Haden, McKay, and Sciarra years. Dwain DeSpain fielded winners for years at Los Altos and South Hills won the top title twice. Regional awareness became acute when WC and La Puente played a titanic title match in, I think "63, won 7-0 by Mal Eaton's WC, and sent a number of players to SC, UCLA, and Cal. For what it's worth, football booster clubs in those days were very active and successful supporters and fund raisers for their teams and schools, filling voids that administration and student body funds could not. It was a grand time.

Kurmugin,
I've been following West Covina since 99 but only this spring did I discover that West Covina was a powerhouse in the 60's & 70's, in fact over on the 80's thread I just posted WC's game score's and the opponents they played during the 4 years that I was in highschool,[74,75,76,& 77]. They beat some perennial powerhouses in those days. The Sierra league at that time, with West Covina, South Hills,Los Altos, & Glendora was the toughest league in the toughest division of fooball in those day's, during that timespan the Sierra won the 4A title 3 out of the 4 years.
If you have any more years of WC's or other Sierra League schools scores along with the opponents they played it would be neat to see
on here. I only have the 4 years I listed.

Can anyone imagine what a colossus West Covina would have been if it had stood alone in the 70s like Fontana instead of sharing talent with Edgewood? Full of young families with lots of big, strong, athletic kids and well run youth sports programs, West Covina also filled the South Hills pipeline. They had more kids on more teams in Jr. American football than any other city of their size. It all combined to produce plenty of potential, honed by good coaching into winners. Look at the won-lost records, the CIF playoff appearances, and all the all-league and all-CIF players. One class, the 72 or 73 group, if memory serves, lost only two games and tied one in four years of competition at all levels, including frosh and soph, losing to Kennedy 14-7 in the fnals as juniors and losing to Los Altos in an epic league battle as seniors and not even making the playoffs with one loss. Not like these days when multiple losses are OK.

Guilty Pleasures

Z and Z....damn, I drove down to the one on the corner in Hollyweird and bought some 3 inch Italian made platforms...plaid leather, $40 bucks, which was a zillion back then. Why I threw them out...I have no idea.

I was a Moor back in the 70's and we won the Watts Summer Games in 73, beating all the City teams who had world class sprinters as wide outs.
Our D was lock down good, allowing only 73 pts the season prior.
After a 72 season of 8-1, we came out ranked 3 or 4 in CIF in 73, and had high expectations for a great year. I don't think Alhambra has ever seen a CIF ranking that high since, and likely never will. I believe St Paul was ranked #1 that year.
A 360 coaching change altered chemistry and attitudes and the team imploded in week 3 against Servite, who demolished us 27-0 at Servite. I remember because I was knocked unconscious ending up with a concussion...(big bald Catholic boys were tough). Turk Schonert was the QB back then, though we had 3 outstanding QB's of our own, talent at RB and a slew of crazed kids on D.
We ended up 3-6 and sucked. A bad 70's memory.

The 70's was the time to be alive....

Uncle Sam stopped taking demanding your best bro's go to the Nam -

You could drive without traffic from Pasadena to Newport, park on the sand, leave your car unlocked and ride waves in the morning with only 3 other people in the water

Penicilin killed everything in the 70's, your only fear was maybe a little itchy-scratchy, but a little comb and 3 bucks of burning shampoo handled that

Bull in the Ring was the order of the day, and you were a wuss if you drank water during practice

I could go forever - but the movies listed are enough to spell it out, the 70's had it going on.

Miguel Melendez....better than "WHITE CHICKS" ????

Come on now....get real?

Wedding Crashers top ten but I think Ron Burgandy is Ferrell's best work to date.

high school kids wearing three piece suits!!!!

man those were the days...Zeiler and Zeiler and Men's Warehouse suits...

Wait no SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER?????

JOHN TRAVOLTA WAS THE MAN !!!!!

steve you for,
temple city rams.
winning 6 or seven cif football championships.
great job coach hitchcock.
pride lives on.
1977 cif teammate
k.h.

Bell Bottoms and platform shoes

"Wedding Crashers" is the best movie of all-time...Now, get back to work.