This evening in San Francisco, Serra, the No.1 prep football team in Northern California (and in the midst of its best three-season run in school history), will visit Kezar Stadium for a WCAL contest with Sacred Heart Cathedral. The Irish are currently winless. They have a very difficult assignment tonight. That's not unusual for them. SHC is not blessed with a gaudy resume' of football excellence. In its long history, the inner-city school, located not far from the Tenderloin, has won a grand total of one regular-season league title (in the AAA in 1957 when it did so and then lost in the league's playoffs). The Irish, which have very limited on-campus football facilities, have never threatened to grab a WCAL crown after leaving the AAA late in the 1960s, following (rather reluctantly, by the way) St. Ignatius into the re-formed, re-energized and re-named CAL. The Irish, who have had some notable success outside the WCAL in the equity-based CIF playoff format in recent years, deserve some real credit for hanging in there in a league regarded as one of NorCal's most competitive. It hasn't been easy for them. But they persist. Good for them.
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