Diles' 1965 Romans Team Considered One Of LA's Best
Cal Hi Sports gives the 1965 LA High School Romans the honorable mention nod as one of the city’s 18 best high school football team’s in the city’s history. Greg Diles was named 2nd team all-city that year. The year before, they lost in the playoffs, but in ’65 they won the city championship (California didn’t start doing state championships until ten years ago). Sadly, I have not been able to track down any living members of the old team. Kicker Gil Ledezma tried out for the Rams a few times, but always got cut. He was 5’2″ tall with a great leg.
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localarts 3:13 pm on February 4, 2017 Permalink |
No mention of Diles as one of their star players. I’m sure if he were talented enough, he would have been offered a scholarship thus escaping the life he would eventually lead.
John 10:02 am on February 6, 2017 Permalink |
I’m thinking he may have missed that boat for even junior college, if he had a bad knee or something else, nobody would have taken a chance.
criticextraordinaire 8:04 pm on February 9, 2017 Permalink |
Greg did pretty good. He was a henchman for The Nash, so you know he lived large.
jimmy 8:32 am on February 7, 2017 Permalink |
Every city or little town from Friscoe to Main, high school or college has its heros ,record breakers all star players , chess champs fastest something or other. Just read the sports section of a news paper for any random town .Take that pool of people and maybe 1% of those make it in their respective fields.