10 lagunabeachindy . com JULY 12 , 2024
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LAGUNA SPORTS UPDATE By Frank Aronoff | LB Indy
90 YEARS OF LAGUNA FOOTBALL Seven weeks until the start of the 2024 season
THE RURAL YEARS 1935-55 Last week , we looked at the first football team representing Laguna , the 1934 JV squad . The first varsity team was a member of the Orange League , which in 1935 was a 10-school league unofficially split into two groups based on school size . In 1936 , the league formally split into major and minor divisions , with the major division becoming the separate Sunset League in 1937 .
Laguna went 0-5 in league play in 1935 and 1-10 for the season . The lone victory was a 6-0 win against Santa Ana ’ s JV . 1936 was a different story . After a 12-0 loss to Garden Grove , Laguna ran off six straight wins , including an 8-0 upset of Tustin , where many of the older Laguna players attended before the high school opened in 1934 .
Breakers had to play the winner of the league ’ s major division for a CIF berth but lost to Orange 18-7 under the lights at the
Members of the 2024 Football Breakers in Japan this past week in an unofficial trip . Photo / Laguna Beach Athletics
Santa Ana Bowl .
John Chamberlin was MVP of the 1936 squad , Bill Murray , Herman Walker , Dale Mickelwaite , and Rollo Beck earned all-league honors for Laguna ’ s first league title .
Maurice “ Red ” Guyer was Laguna ’ s first coach ( 1934-41 , 1946-56 ) and remained as the athletic director until 1968 . Guyer was from Chillicothe , Ill ., near Peoria . After high school , he moved to Santa Ana and lived with his grandmother while attending junior college . He transferred to USC and ran track and was a member of the 1932 440
Relay Team , which set the world record in 1932 . He was on the elementary school faculty in 1933 and became the coach and athletic director when the high school opened in 1934 .
The Breakers were successful in the first 21 years , capturing six league crowns and one CIF title , all as members of the Orange League . High school enrollment changed in Orange County after Disneyland opened in 1955 , and the county quickly urbanized , leaving fewer and fewer small schools to compete with . Laguna ’ s enrollment passed 500 in
1959 and reached 1,000 for the first time in 1969 .
LAGUNA FOOTBALL UPDATES Breakers Squad Visits Japan Breaker players and coaches took a break in their summer training schedule to make an unofficial visit to Japan , following a visit made last August by Ritsumeikan Uji High School in Kyoto . Laguna returns on July 14 , and summer practices end Aug . 1 .
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