THE NORTHERN LEAGUE-----OR THE TRAVELING LEAGUE

[Bluedog2]

The northern league for the 2016 season runs from Corning to Yreka south and north and to the east is Lassen high in Susanville. These teams cover a 100 miles or more on some of there games just on one way trips. But from what the word is, the school districts are not complaining. Not like some of the bay area teams that moan and groan, telling the coach to keep each preseason game close....
In the Northern league as late Sept and Oct. approach, you have the possibility of heavy rain and even snow with Yreka and Lassen high taking the brunt of it. For Lassen high to leave town, they must cross the Sierra's in both directions, but so do the rest of the league teams.....El Cerrito made the trip in 2015, dropping a 25-6 loss to Lassen.
For the 2016 season, Red Bluff has been added to join the six teams that are the base of the league...For the 2015 season, West Valley (cottonwood) was the champ at 9-3 while (Central Valley) Shasta Lake went 0-10 for the second season in a row ..
For the 2016 season this is how the league looks

2015
Anderson 5-6
West Valley (cottonwood) 9-3
Red Bluff 1-9
Yreka 5-5
Corning 5-6
Lassen (Susanville) 7-5
Central Valley (Shasta lake) 0-10

 

[colhenrylives]

With all due respect, what's your point? Rural schools have always faced long travel distances. Urban and suburban schools usually don't. That's been the case for generations. Public school administrators and board members prefer to reduce team travel whenever possible for reasons of safety and costs. There are exceptions. But this has been going on throughout the state for 100 years. Nothing new there.

 

[Bluedog2]

With all due respect, what's your point? Rural schools have always faced long travel distances. Urban and suburban schools usually don't. That's been the case for generations. Public school administrators and board members prefer to reduce team travel whenever possible for reasons of safety and costs. There are exceptions. But this has been going on throughout the state for 100 years. Nothing new there.

The point is, we have a number of schools that don't leave the neighborhood that need to test them selves, but they are told "NO"....Several years a go, a couple of Oakland teams scheduled Sacramento teams and at the last minute the dist. pulled out, leaving the Sacramento teams flapping in the briez......You won't see any of the northern teams pull that stunt unless there is heavy snow and the roads are impossible to travel on. But they will reschedule the game. And you are right, this has been going since the year one, but in any case, if these teams are willing or have to travel.
Two years ago, Enterprise from Redding came down to Lincoln High of Stockton to meet Manteca which they beat...The sad part of this story is, they went down to LA for the state playoff's and got bombed because the other team was way to fast for them...
In any case, if these schools can do it, then so can the rest, its all in what you want to do....look at Serra......They have taken on St. Mary's of Stockton and that's a good 60 to 75 mile trip for either team one way...

 

[colhenrylives]

At one point after World War II, the old Catholic Athletic League featured some serious travel. St. Mary's of Stockton was in the CAL for a year or two. Bellarmine routinely traveled into the Central Valley for the occasional football contest. So did Serra. With far fewer schools in the Bay Area 65 years ago, travel distances were, by definition, longer. The WCAL was created in 1967, in part, to reduce travel and to accommodate SI and, shortly after, SH. The East Bay schools remained as the CAL until the late 1980s when the NCS broke it up.

 

[colhenrylives]

By the way, the NCS decision to force the CAL schools into public school leagues is the opposite of the posture of CCS officials. They want no part of the papal powers in their public school leagues. Just chat with PAL public football coaches who hate having to deal with Sacred Heart Prep (a non-WCAL entity but Catholic to the core). In CCS, the WCAL is regarded as the Evil Empire by the publics. Every device available is utilized to try to reduce the impact of the WCAL. If they could, CCS authorities would banish the WCAL to Alcatraz Island and let it languish there like a latter-day Al Capone.

 

[remc]

The northern league for the 2016 season runs from Corning to Yreka south and north and to the east is Lassen high in Susanville. These teams cover a 100 miles or more on some of there games just on one way trips. But from what the word is, the school districts are not complaining. Not like some of the bay area teams that moan and groan, telling the coach to keep each preseason game close....
In the Northern league as late Sept and Oct. approach, you have the possibility of heavy rain and even snow with Yreka and Lassen high taking the brunt of it. For Lassen high to leave town, they must cross the Sierra's in both directions, but so do the rest of the league teams.....El Cerrito made the trip in 2015, dropping a 25-6 loss to Lassen.
For the 2016 season, Red Bluff has been added to join the six teams that are the base of the league...For the 2015 season, West Valley (cottonwood) was the champ at 9-3 while (Central Valley) Shasta Lake went 0-10 for the second season in a row ..
For the 2016 season this is how the league looks

2015
Anderson 5-6
West Valley (cottonwood) 9-3
Red Bluff 1-9
Yreka 5-5
Corning 5-6
Lassen (Susanville) 7-5
Central Valley (Shasta lake) 0-10

About 4 years ago they had the NCS D4 final in Arcata and St. Mary's Berkeley had to return the following week because of bad weather going up there.