Throughout a brand new 45-minute documentary displaying the history of the CIF Southern Section, the face and voice of its voluntary historian, John Dahlem, lets everybody find out about his willpower and dedication to protect, discover and uncover invaluable tidbits of a corporation that started in 1913.
A forty five-minute documentary on the history of the CIF Southern Section will get its first public airing on Saturday after the Santa Margarita-De La Salle soccer recreation on Spectrum.
(Eric Sondheimer / Los Angeles Times)
From the very first recreation applications produced by excessive colleges to revealing the uncommon sports activities that was performed, this documentary affords informative and intriguing particulars and will probably be a lot appreciated by anybody who has participated in California highschool sports activities, whether or not as a coach, participant, mother or father or previous participant.
There are so many historic objects Dahlem discovered earlier than his dying final yr. From outdated video to outdated trophies to outdated medallions, it’s a glance again and a glance ahead on how highschool sports activities has modified, together with the truth women weren’t welcome to compete in playoffs till 1974.
Nothing was extra intriguing than Dahlem displaying there was a hand grenade competitors, with a scholar from Huntington Park successful the first competitors. Yes, it was about arm energy, so baseball gamers have been good throwing hand grenades.
The movie will obtain its first displaying on tv on Saturday evening on Spectrum at the conclusion of the Santa Margarita-De La Salle state soccer championship recreation. Then it would transfer to the Southern Section’s YouTube site.
Former Southern Section commissioner Rob Wigod serves as narrator in the undertaking through which Taylor Martinez was the government producer.
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