Football
Largely due to the fame of former football player and actor O.J. Simpson, Galileo was well known for its football team. Galileo's arch enemy is reputed to be the Eagles of George Washington High School, though the Cardinals of Lowell High School have been a rising challenge.
The football field that dominates the second block of Galileo was formerly named in honor of O.J. Simpson. However, after Simpson's infamous trial in 1995, the football field was subsequently renamed to George White Field. The two twin apartment buildings that face the northern side of the football field are the Fontana buildings. The design of the twin buildings were actually built to echo and magnify the sounds of the football games.
Galileo's Football has gone undefeated three times in the school's history in 1988 the Lions defeated McAteer High School becoming the first football team in San Francisco History to go 12 - 0. The second time was in 1990 and the third was in 2002 when the Lions defeated the Washington Eagles.
During the 2009 season, the Galileo Lions snap an 18 game losing streak and end up playing in the San Francisco AAA Turkey Bowl against the Lincoln Mustangs. Lincoln had won 4 AAA championships in a row prior to the 2009 season. The Lions shut out the Mustangs and won 35 to 0.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)