Emotional moments for 5 state high school football champs
It must have felt like the final scene from the holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” for Lincoln football coach Phil Ferrigno.
One by one, players — former and current — and coaches and family members greeted him with bear hugs and kisses following the Mustangs’ 24-13 CIF State 6-A bowl-game championship win over Orange Glen-Escondido at City College of San Francisco, a field where Ferrigno played for both Riordan and CCSF.
There were his CCSF coaches, offensive coordinator Danny Hayes and head coach George Rush, for whom the field on which Ferrigno was standing was named.