High school football: Balboa wins historic Thanksgiving title in San Francisco
Trick play on a punt return lifts Buccaneers to win at Kezar Stadium.
The Balboa (San Francisco) football team entered famed Kezar Stadium on Thanksgiving amidst a cloud of blue and orange fireworks. They left the 97th Turkey Day Game waving flags, chanting songs, squirting water bottles and largely embraced. A 21-0 San Francisco Section championship win over Lincoln (San Francisco) was a long time coming, worthy of a long time celebrating.
Their last title was in 1984, a long and arduous 37-year drought after largely dominating the section's football scene with the likes of names as Wilson Faumuina, Roberto Jourdan, Al Burleson and the late Calvin Jones, who passed away just last month. ...
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