Football

There was a lot of change on the horizon after the 1969 season. The ILH was about to split into public and private school divisions, which ultimately set the stage for the public schools leaving the ILH for the OIA. Kamehameha won the 1969 ILH championship and was led by senior Steve Hookano, a split end and flanker who won the player of the year honor from the Honolulu Advertiser. Farrington’s Onosai Tanuvasa was the back of the year and […]

Saint Louis won its fourth consecutive Prep Bowl in 1989 with its best team yet. The Crusaders, behind coach of the year Cal Lee, finished 16th in the country according to USA Today’s Super 25 rankings and extended their winning streak to a staggering 54 games. Saint Louis linebacker Kalei Kaanoi was named the defensive player of the year, but it was the first time in three years Saint Louis did not sweep the top awards on both sides of […]

Thirty years after Kamehameha won its only Prep Bowl, the Warriors claimed their first state championship in 2004 behind running back Jayson Rego. Rego, who was the offensive player of the year in both the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspapers, rushed for 212 yards on a staggering 39 carries in the state final to lead the Warriors over Leilehua and quarterback Bryant Moniz. The Mules were a longshot to make the finals, but Nolan Tokuda locked up the coach […]

The 1986 prep football all-star teams had the same top players in each newspaper. Saint Louis defensive lineman Manly Williams won the defensive and lineman of the year honors while Kahuku tailback Richard Stevenson won offensive and back of the year honors. The Honolulu Advertiser went with Pac-Five quarterback David Searle on its first team while the Star-Bulletin chose Kahuku’s Walter Santiago as its quarterback. Leilehua’s Adrian Murrell, as a sophomore, made the Advertiser’s first team. Notable players to make […]

The turn of the millennium in 2000 basically served as the launching point for Kahuku’s run of championships that has lasted 17 years. The Red Raiders won the first of what is now eight state titles, ending Saint Louis’ incredible 14-year streak of championships (13 Prep Bowls, one state title) with a 26-20 victory in the D-I state final. Coach of the year Siuaki Livai and defensive player and lineman of the year Chris Kemoe’atu, a 6-foot-5, 330-pound monster in […]

These seniors were among the last crop to play at Honolulu Stadium and the final year before the Star-Bulletin began doing its All-State team. After losing two of its first three games of the 1976 season, the Kamehameha Warriors rattled off nine straight wins, including a 46-6 thrashing of Radford in the Prep Bowl. The Warriors swept top honors on the All-State team with David Hughes edging out Radford’s Homer Jones, Pac-Five’s Lia Moevao and Warriors teammate Keoni Jardine for […]