HISTQ&Y O E THE C,AL{ FORNMINTE RSCH O LAS TIC F E D E RAT I O N
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wf{AT wAS TftE LARGEST SCNOOL fN TNE CIFFSS INDECEWER" tr937?
PHOENIX UNIoN I$GILS pf{O 0{-AMZONA
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fukreost i,000 rseo{e ffhsrc the vcext fqrgest
fuieh school irc $FSS\
PNOE-NNX UNION ff{GH SCHOOL FOOTEA[,{,Football Stadium in the lg30's
1930 lootball schedule fbr Phoenix Unionfrom four other sfates that they played:
High School indicating opponents
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A 4ATCHEU rgaiurr ilire of tLtj strorgcst lllgiliV,[. eshq.1 srid tearn"' tlu'oughout the Southwc'stinc)nding Tiiao', A-t'izona, Cirlifornia, and Neu'Mexico, the Coyotes lltllect thlough the heav.rsclredule with gevell rictor'ies antl ouly tr/o ddeat$.
DoN CLARx;Coptoin, Qzattarbaok-16.IO bOor brckor flold ru'.n^r cvcr IO Woar u CototounlJomr. Ill€ s.n6rrl6hhon (hi fl€ld flvo tttn ahnb r! q!^[orbact( on tianll-Stru Ttam.
Phoenix Union High School, in Arizona, was avery large school who had
difficulty in finding suitable opponents to play in the state of Arizona. They
began playing Califomia schools with the creation of the CIF and even
challenged for the Southwest Football Championship in 1920 when they
ventured to the city of Long Beach to play the Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits.
Although the outcome was a disaster (lost 102 to 0), they continued to play
California schools whenever they could. The following is found in the
CIFSS Council minutes of April 10,1937:
"Moved by Mr. Burnight, seconded by Mr. Hayshurst that the State
Council be asked to make Phoenix Fligh School and Tuscon HighSchool associate members of the C.I.F., Southem Section for theyear 1937 -1938. Carried."
The advantage of being an associate member was that they could play
California schools without any special permission and they had all theprivileges of regular membership without being placed in any specificleague (they were considered to be free-lance). It was a rule at that time too
that no athletic competition of any kind be allowed between CIF and non-CIF schools. The State Federated Council allowed Phoenix Union HighSchool to have associate membership as long as they limited theircompetition to Arizona and Southern California.
From the CIFSS Council "Monthly Bulletin" of December,1937, is gleaned
the following:
"Phoenix with an enrollment of 4142 is our largest member.Big Pine with 20 is our smallest. Alhambra with 3167 has thelargest enrollrrent cf any or our Southem Califomia schools."
Phoenix was active in their membership as noted in the December, 1938,
CIFSS "Monthly Bulletin :"
"The Phoenix High School requested that it be allowed to conductan intra-mural football tournarnent after December I among boyswho had not been on the squad during the season. .. the request was
not allowed."
Free-lance schools of l94l included Phoenix, Tuscon and Yuma HighSchools all of Aizona. Las Vegas High School also asked for associate
.r€}ffi*$;ffitr
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.ffi'ffiffi]membership. Later Glendale, Arizona High School, Mesa and North
Phoenix were added to the list.
March, 1952. "Monthly Bulletin" October. 1957, "Monthly Bulletin"
TUCSON ANNOUNCES V/ITHDRAWALFROM ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP
For several years the C.I.F., Southern Sectionhas made possible an Associate Membership forhigh schools in Arizona and Nevada, to per-mit tho.se schools to compet€ with our southernCalifornia schools. One of the factors whichbrought about this relationship was the relativelyfew high schools of comparative size in our neigh-bor states which made athletic scheduling prob-lems. Associate Membershio in the C.LF. madeit possibie for the Arizona and Nevada sci,oolsro round ous their schedules.
Trt.son, Arizona HS, Mr. Andy Tolson, Prin-cipal, has recently wirhdrawn from AssociateMembership, giving rwo main reasons for itsaction. ( I ) Tucson 6nds the expense of rravel-ing to California or bringing California teamsto Tucson a licle too heavy to bear. (2) Recentgrowth in Arizona has brought about an in-crease in the number of larger schools rn thatstate, and hence Tucson 6nds r greater oppor-cuniry for scheduling much closer to home.
Mr. Tolson states in his letter: "Be assuredthat our relationships with you. organizationhave
"lways b.en of th. best and we hare enjoyed
our competition with southern California schools."
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cTV/O ARIZONA SCHOOLS DROP CIF
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIPlVord was received during the summer that
both North Phoenix HS and Phoenix HS hadfound it necessary to drop their associatg mem-bership in the SS of the CIF. They regrettedvery much this action, but cransportation costsinvolved in long trips had risen g.eatly, andrvith the rapid gtowth of populations aroundthe Phoenix area it is now oossible for theseschools to complete their athleric schedules rvithhigh schools in their own srate.
Our member schools are reminded that be-cause of this .sction it is not now possible toschedule athletic contesrs with these .chools un-less p.ior permission is obtained, not only fromthe CIF, SS, but from the Arizona Interschol-asric Athletic Association. Our association withboth of chese 6ne Phoenix schools has beenmost satisfactory, and although we regret thetermination of this very pleasant relationshipwe wish them both rvell in the years ahead..
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EQUALS SPRINT iIARK
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Davq Bietver, floct fullback'end Don Grsy. stliftt' left half'back, aro oxpected to laad thcColt attack agalnst thc Arlzon'a ns,
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wlli arrltc from .l 11zona tomortorv rnorttlnq for thelr nlghtBame \vlth Sinta Ealbara HlShSchooJ's Dons.
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PHOENIX-O, LONG BEACH-IO2The largest crowd ever assembled fot a orep school game in the
\X/est witnessed the great Long Beach eleven win the championship
^f .southwestern LJnited States by defeating thc Phoenix Union HighSchool squad by the largest score ever made by a local team-102-0'
It was a grand and glorious finish to the local gridiron season.
Aver 12,000 spectators viewed this contest. Although the seating
capacity of the stands is stightly gteater than half that number, the
crowd poured in until there was a mass of jostling humanity encirc-Iing. the field and tugging at the ropes impatiently.
fnterest in the garne ran high because of its intersectional flavor,Never had a scholastic gridiron clash of such importancc been con-
ducted on a southern field" Furthermore, the game furnished the
final kickoff of. the season which had excelled any of previous Years,:nd in the unusually huge crowd were marry whose desire to be'"in",- t the final whistle overshadowed their interest in the teams.
The game itself .was as one-sided as the score inCicates, yet tl"re
crowd seemed to enjoy it. Phoenix was outclassed in evety 1:ay,Everything worked against the Arizonans. End runs, off-tacklesmashes. forward passes, trick plays, all were used to roll up the
total of I02 points.If any one player stood out above the rest it was Phil Tiernan,
Long Beach phantom-like halfback. Tiernan, along with Dolley'Evans, Morris, Rich and Willet, brought his career at Long Beachto a glorious finish in tfus end-season gama He caused repeated
exclamations from the stands by his sensational open-field work and
brilliant end rtrns. Nothing could stop him-at Ieast nothing thePhoenicians could do.
The most remarkable and successful season Long Beach has
ever enioyed closed with this gamq and the most brilliant of allLong Beach gridiron machines passed down into history" It was
an all-star squad and the 1919-1920 Long B:ach High School elevenwill alwavs be remembered as the bunch that would not accept def.eat,
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From 1920 Phoenix
pwoswrx uN!2rv wxGH SCl9l9-1920
Union High School Yearbook
PHODNIX,0; LONG BEACI{' 102
F1'trR football practice hed been over ior^
l..tf V a month, through the efforts of a
l*i. ;o,r',;irree of Phocnix High alrr'rni a
gn-. ,u"r---..hctluled w-itl-Lo:g U"^,1 l:9:School, champior:s of Cali{ornia' [o deterrnrne
J* ftiglt .cltool charlpiorrship.of rhe SouthwesL
The , esults of that mc'rrorable contest Playco
i;;'L.t; Beach on the afteruoon of January I0
"t. .ttfi too wcll kno*n ihr'oughout Arizona and
Sorthenr Califolnia. Although thete 3re sevcril
things that could be said, sincc the team ofiereo
rrcithcr alibi llor excu'se uporr thelr rctu-rfl' none
urll be grverr in this hisrory, so the whole talc
rtlay be iu,t,,tt"<f up rn t)re hcading o[ this stot'y-
o.i",l"* Oa"enix High is coucctned' that is all
I,AVIS
there ts lo lt.- -Ot,t'r. l9l9 footbilL team thc whole sclrool rs
,,'oud. E'ery )oy^l Coyote is proud of the fcl-
1.,*. *ho composctl rhat tcam ; pr'oud of thenr be-
crttse of thcil cxcellent playing Ls demonsttalefl
" i "' ",, . ".,1 1:,j..1.-, jT.-il:l,l' ""'l',[,f ;:'
iude to encoulller [neln'
.^"r. "f their' fighrirrg sPirit' therr.cortt-11t":,i
displayed duringthe Long Beach
str'uggle 1-o
lhem goes thcestecm o[ evel'v
pgrson connecl-
ecl ruith rhe LIigh
Sclrool. M.a Y
otd PiiocnirHigh alwaY'turn out a teatn
with "he
cour-age
and spir-it of the
team of l9l9t
Phosrrx
Phoenrx
Phoen,x.
Phoenix
Phoenir
Phoenix,
Phoerix..
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