{"id":289229,"date":"2007-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/plhs-1949-championship-football-team-hold-reunion\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T07:00:00","slug":"plhs-1949-championship-football-team-hold-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/plhs-1949-championship-football-team-hold-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"PLHS&#8217; 1949 championship football team hold reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emory &#8220;Pete&#8221; Lewis and Howard &#8220;Bill&#8221; Mayfield, Point Loma High School Class of 1950, organized a reunion event Wednesday, May 16, for the 1949 football team that won both the Metro and Southern California championship. <br \/>Several players made the All-Metro team that year, and some earned scholarships to play football in college. <br \/>Bob Monfort and Manny Gomez played for Oregon, Joe Smidt went to the University of California and Buddy Lewis made the All-American team at the University of Arizona. <br \/>Special guests at the reunion included 1949 team coach Don Giddings; Bennie Edens, coach for 43 years; and current PLHS head coach Mike Hastings. Current principal Bobbie Samilson and vice principal Kevin Gormly also attended. <br \/>Other guest included representatives from PLHSFAA, PLHS football boosters and, of course, other 1949 team members. <br \/>&#8221; Submitted by Bill Mayfield, member, PLHS&#8217; 1949 championship team<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emory &#8220;Pete&#8221; Lewis and Howard &#8220;Bill&#8221; Mayfield, Point Loma High School Class of 1950, organized a reunion event Wednesday, May 16, for the 1949 football team that won both the Metro and Southern California championship. Several players made the All-Metro team that year, and some earned scholarships to play football in college. Bob Monfort and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":289230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"PLHS' 1949 championship football team hold reunion","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}