My alma mater Whittier High used to be in the Pacific League, along with Alhambra High, so I saw the Cardinals take on the Moors on two occasions. Whittier left to join the newly-created Whitmont League in 1968. Two years earlier, we had a good football team quarterbacked by future USC star Bob Chandler, but El Rancho in Pico Rivera dominated the league—their 1966 team was arguably the best high school football team in the nation that year.
At the time, my mother was teaching English at El Rancho. She also taught English and journalism at Mark Keppel in Alhambra during the late 1940’s.
MKHS ‘66
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