Football

As the 2017 Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s football All-State team release draws near, periodically we are going to ask a spreadsheet to generate a random number between 1947 and 2016. Whichever year pops up, we will post that season’s all-star pages here. We continue with 1975, the year Blane Gaison and Kamehameha ruled the roost over OIA champion Waianae. Mililani joined the OIA in the first year of Aloha Stadium, which helped the league draw 150,719 fans after getting 97,969 the previous […]

As the 2017 Honolulu Star-Advertiser football All-State team release draws near, periodically we are going to ask a spreadsheet to generate a random number between 1947 and 2016. Whichever year pops up, we will post that season’s all-star pages here. This time it is 1950, an innocent time when Charles Kaaihue and ‘Iolani ruled the ILH with a slew of legendary names and Waipahu was the boss in the OIA behind player of the year Jimmy Olivares. The Honolulu Advertiser […]

As the 2017 Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s football All-State team release draws near, periodically we are going to ask a spreadsheet to generate a random number between 1947 and 2016. Whichever year pops up, we will post that season’s all-star pages here. 1998 was the last year of the Prep Bowl and the winner was the same as it ever was with Saint Louis continuing its dominance. The talent stacks up with any year before or since, with Timmy Chang, Joe Igber […]

Most people will remember Jonah Panoke‘s touchdown catch from quarterback Chevan Cordeiro that gave Saint Louis a 31-28 victory over Kahuku in the Open Division championship game Nov. 18. That play, in which Panoke wrestled the ball from Kahuku’s Alex Fonoimoana-Vaomu in midair before crossing the goal line, happened with 37 seconds to go. What people may not remember as much is that Kahuku drove down the field and threw a pass toward the end zone with two seconds left. […]