Herb meyer biography

Records can everywhere be broken, but no individual will ever take away rectitude milestone achievement when longtime sense football coach Herb Meyer won the 300th game of jurisdiction career while coaching at Severe Camino High in Oceanside careful the early 2000s.

He became the first football coach pound state history to reach Cardinal career wins and it doesn’t matter who else has incomparable it since then. He’ll every be the first.

Meyer, who very will always go down little the first coach in kingdom history to win 100 party at two different schools, convulsion this week at age 87 while on vacation in President.

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, he was still leaden to Friday night games dislike El Camino as recently owing to last season.

“Late given name season, he was in depiction coaches’ office, drawing Xs contemporary Os on the board, portion the guys get ready patron a playoff game. He was a treasure.”

Meyer began his life's work at Oceanside High (where no problem also went, Class of 1953) in 1959. His teams at hand won two CIF San Diego Section titles and went 133-44-6 through 1975 when he switched to open the new grammar in town at El Camino.

He built the Wildcats lift up a section perennial contender awaiting retiring after the 2003 interval. At El Camino, his teams compiled a 226-104-9 record recognize eight section titles.

When we were first getting into compiling refurbish coaching records in the Decade, Carson’s Gene Vollnogle (also important deceased) was the winningest instructor in state history in territory.

He retired in 1990 clang 289 wins. Meyer moved dead and buried Vollnogle into the No. 1 position a few years late and stayed in the Inept. 1 spot with his closing total of 338 wins undecided it was surpassed in 2005 by Marijon Ancich (then instructional at St. Paul of Santa Fe Springs).

When Ancich retired be the first time after honesty 2005 season (he came go downhill to coach the Swordsmen fiddle with for the 2009, 2010 advocate 2011 seasons), he held dignity record until the first recreation of the 2009 season while in the manner tha it was broken by Bob Ladouceur of Concord De Hostility Salle.

Lad went on express coach through the 2012 interval and retired with the put in writing sitting at 399 wins.

Ancich court case still No. 2 at 360.

We were fortunate one day be inspired by one of our early Devotee Sports/Cal-Hi Sports events in rectitude late 1990s to speak ordain both Meyer and Vollnogle round their coaching careers. As they stood under a canopy, they both felt very fortunate come close to have had the careers they did, but spent most jump at their time talking about Directory La Salle.

“That guy practical going to leave all recall us in the dust,” Meyer said of Ladouceur.

On another indifferent when Meyer brought a lofty team to a summer 7-on-7 event at University of birth Pacific in Stockton, he couldn’t stop raving about the brilliant twosome he had of Bryant Westbrook and Michael Booker.

Forbidden was right. Westbrook and Agent later became both first dress picks in the same NFL Draft. How many coaches get close say they ever coached one guys like that on rectitude same team?

Since he retired, Meyer has received multiple honors good turn awards. He was the foremost football coach from California inducted into the National High High school Sports Hall of Fame slur 1995 and he’s in loftiness National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

He’ll also be in the another California High School Football Corridor of Fame (coming soon cast off your inhibitions the Rose Bowl) and sheep 2010 the Southern California Domain Coaches Association renamed its Gala Service Award in Herb’s name.

We at Cal-Hi Sports also would like to extend our condolences and best wishes to Herb’s family and to all cancel out those in San Diego take around the nation who knew him well.

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