When El Camino hosts Capuchino in football the weekend of Sept. 27-28, the game will be played at a newly refurbished El Camino High field.
Thanks mainly to the passing of the Measure J school improvements, new synthetic turf will be installed at El Camino and South San Francisco high schools and there will also be new bleachers, new all-weather tracks and other improvements.
The National Football League will also kick some money in to the project, Jacobson said.
Also, the annual Bell Game between El Camino and South City will be played for the first time at El Camino, at 2 p.m. on November 16 of this year.
"We've never played a Bell Game at El Camino," said Colts assistant football coach Eric Jacobson, a 1988 El Camino grad. "It will be nice not to have to get on a bus and go over to South City."
South San Francisco has dominated the Bell Game series over the years and has not lost to El Camino since 2002.
In the 1960s, Bell Games between El Camino and then-peninsula power South San Francisco drew thousands of fans to Clifford Field. The re-done El Camino venue will only hold about 700 fans on the home side and 300 on the visitors', but Jacobson said there will be room to bring in more temporary seating, if needed.
Also approved for El Camino are an eight-lane, all-weather track, a new scoreboard that will accommodate football and soccer, a three-room press box, goal posts, two flag poles, two soccer goals and three water fountains. The site will also be wired for lighting, though lights will probably not go in right away.
At venerable Clifford Field, where legendary Warrior running back Greg Jones (UCLA, Minnesota Vikings) once chewed up big chunks of yardage, there will also be new turf, a six-lane track, new bleachers and other amenities.
Work on Clifford Field will not begin until December, said Warriors coach Frank Moro, who is nonetheless pleased with the project.
"Our field is good when it's kept up, but the district has had difficulty maintaining things because they've reduced the number of groundskeepers," Moro said. "The artificial turf will make things easier."
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