Commitment, discipline and loyalty were all essential parts of old-school coaching at high schools in the San Fernando Valley.
If you went to high school in the San Fernando Valley during the 1960s, ’70s, or early ’80s, you remember their names. We called them Coach.
Loyalty and commitment meant something back then to men like John Haynes, Dick Whitney, and Dean Cadwell at Kennedy High; Jack Neumier and Daryl Stroh at Granada Hills High; and Skip Giancanelli and Ralph Stam at El Camino High. The hours were long and the extra pay added to an already low teacher’s salary wasn’t much, but nobody got into teaching for the money. Francola jumped at the opportunity.
“He knew how teenagers could be. Things were only important to them for a limited amount of time. Wayne could look in their eyes and sense when their minds were not there on the football field or baseball diamond.” His former players remember him as a no-nonsense but fair man who gave everyone a shot at playing, and treated the kid sitting at the end of the bench the same way he treated his best players.
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