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Photograph caption dated December 10, 1962 reads, "Banning's Candy Gonzalez roars through a gap in Poly High's line for game-winning touchdown - Gonzalez (22) plunged the ball forward into the endzone to halt the Parrots' city playoff activity Saturday at East Los Angeles." The Los Angeles City high school football finals were held at East Los Angeles City College in Monterey Park. Polytechnic High School is in Sun Valley and Phineas Banning High School is in Wilmington. See images 00160446 through 00160449 for additional photographs in this series.
Polytechnic High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Students High school athletes High school students Football players Football uniforms Football helmets Football teams Football Team sports Stadiums Spectators Young men Monterey Park (Calif.) Portrait photographs Group portraits
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