San Diego-Los Angeles City High School All-Star Football : Renewed Game to Showcase Booker and Seau

SAN DIEGO —  Last year, Jerry Weiner noticed that some of the top players from the San Diego Section and the Los Angeles city schools often were being ignored when it came to selection of the members of the Los Angeles Shrine All-Star football game at the Rose Bowl.

Weiner remembered a time when both Los Angeles and San Diego had their share of representatives in an annual all-star game for recently graduated seniors: the Breitbard Athletic Foundation game, which was discontinued because of lack of interest in 1963.

Tonight, the rivalry between Los Angeles and San Diego will be renewed in the Lions College Prep All-Star Football Game at San Diego State’s Aztec Bowl at 7:30.

“It’s just a shame that with all of the talent in San Diego and the city of Los Angeles, only a handful of these players were chosen for the Shrine game,” said Weiner, a retired teacher from the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Weiner was working on the promotion of the Shrine game last season when he decided to try to renew the Breitbard game, which ran from 1949 to 1963. The Breitbard Foundation is now known as the San Diego Hall of Champions at Balboa Park.

Some of the county’s top players, including Parade All-Americans Tommy Booker, a running back from Vista, and Junior Seau, a linebacker/tight end from Oceanside, will play for the San Diego team.

Quarterback Scott Barrick, the state’s top passer last season at Fallbrook, withdrew from the game because he said he is not comfortable running the San Diego team’s option offense. Barrick will attend SDSU in the fall, although he is expected to redshirt his freshman season. The San Diego team, including 32 of the county’s top seniors from last season, will be coached by Herb Meyer of El Camino and Vic Player of Lincoln.

The Los Angeles team will be coached by Gene Vollnogle of Carson High and Henry Pacheco of San Pedro High. Of the 36 players on the Los Angeles team, 22 were all-city selection last season.

All-Star Notes Players from the San Diego team were housed at the Marine Corps Recruitment Depot until Thursday, when they were asked to leave by the Marines. Jerry Weiner, the event’s coordinator, said the players, who were supposed to be housed at the depot throughout the 10-day training camp, “could not live up to Marine standards.” Weiner said the players had left their barracks messy and were boisterous at times. The Los Angeles team is housed at the Naval Training Center and has received no complaints, he said. . . Patrick Rowe, an All-American from Lincoln High who accepted a scholarship to play football at San Diego State, will miss tonight’s game because of a fractured collarbone. He suffered the injury at last Saturday’s Los Angeles Shrine All-Star game. . . . Tickets for the game are $7 for adults, $5 for high school students with identification and $3 for children under 12. Tickets are available at all Lions Clubs in San Diego and Imperial counties or at the game. Parking is free.