CCCFCA Hall of Fame - Class of 2015

Gary was a two year starter on the Ventura High School football team and All Channel League in 1969 and 1970 in  as a quarterback. Baseball was a sport he also excelled in as an infielder/pitcher,  he was All league in 1969 and 1970 and finished his high school career by being named the MVP of his high school and  the Channel  League, and First Team All CIF.  He continued his education at Ventura College where he played quarterback in 1970 and tailback in 1971.  He again was All Western States Conference in football and baseball for the Pirates, and the Baseball Western States Conference Player of the Year. He was drafted in baseball by the Minnesota Twins, but had a dream of playing in the Rose Bowl with UCLA. His football career was cut short by an injury in football but his baseball career at UCLA continued and he played professional baseball in various organizations after graduating from UCLA with a BA degree in 1975. Gary began his coaching career as a graduate assistant in baseball at UCLA in 1977 and University of Wyoming where he received his Masters.  His next career move was to Ventura College as an assistant football coach and baseball coach,  in both a head and assistant capacity, for more than 35 years. He has been Conference Baseball Coach of the Year as well as Football Coach of the Year, on multiple occasions, and in his 17 years in baseball he has sent 87% of his players on to educational institutions or professional organizations in baseball. He coached football from 1979 to 1989 and 1994 to the present, including stints as interim head coach and defensive coordinator. He was the linebacker coach in 2013 when the Pirates completed the first 10-0 season in school history. During his 36-year tenure with the football program, Anglin has mentored the linebackers and produced a plethora of All-conference, All-state, and All-American linebackers. One of his former linebackers was Jerry Haflich who has gone on to gain honors as the head football coach at American River College and has been the California Community College Coach of the Year.  Gary was inducted into the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame in 2000 and inducted into the California Community College Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2013. Gary and his wife Lisa, reside in Ventura, and are the proud parents of two grown children, Brooke and Casey.     

He was a three-year letterman at Artesia High School in Lakewood, California. Joe scored 30 touchdowns during his senior year and also lettered four times in basketball, earning first-team All-CIF honors and was a three-time first-team All-Suburban League player. Transferring to Palomar College, Joe was one of the most feared running backs in community college football during the 1997 and 1998 seasons.  The 6’2” 320 pound tailback led the Comets to 3 bowl Championships during the 1997- ’98 seasons. He rushed for a school record of 1,637 yards in 1998 and holds the career record of 2,437 rushing yards. In 1998,  he broke the single game rushing record twice, with 246 yards vs. Pasadena and 261 yards vs. Saddleback, scoring 24 touchdowns in the process.   While at Palomar he earned many honors. In 1998 he was JC Grid Wire first team All American, California Community College Football Coaches Association All State, and All American. Additional honors were The California State Offensive Player of the Year, and was voted the Most Valuable Player on the Palomar 1998 State and National Championship team that was 11-1. He transferred to Kansas State in 1999 and again continued his production as a great running back. Joe drew attention from Sports Illustrated magazine calling him “the largest running back to ever rush for 100 yards in a NCAA game”. Hall would accomplish that feat 3 more times in 1999 as the Wildcats finished 11-1. Joe, took his redshirt year in 2000, and in his senior year, 2001 was used primarily as a blocker and had a career rushing average of 6.4 yards per carry. He played in the NFL for St Louis, Kansas City, the Raiders, and finished his pro career in Europe with The Rhein Fire. Currently Joe is into his fourth year as an  assistant backfield coach with Mid America Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas  He has had 8  players receive All Conference Honors and one Player of the Year. Joe is married to his wife Hollie , and they have 4 children Joe, Jorryn, Joss, and Jagger.  

Born and raised in Cleburne Texas, a small railroad town near Ft. Worth, he had a budding career as a Golden Gloves amateur boxer and at the age of 15 boxed through the different weight classes until he was 17, when he was boxing in the light heavy weight division.  In 1949 he won the Golden Gloves Texas National tournament title. However, football was he played offensive and defensive end at Cleburne High School. He earned three letters in football, ’49’ 50 ’51 and 2 letters in basketball in baseball. His next stop was at Paris J. C. on scholarship where he played offensive end and defensive tackle, was team captain and in 1952 was Outstanding Athlete of the Year. Making a move again on scholarship to East Texas  State University, which is now Texas A&M, and majored in Physical Education and played for the Lions when the team was in a 29 game win streak, the longest in the nation at the time. As a junior he led the team with 39 unassisted tackles and 21 assists. His senior year as team captain he earned All Conference and Honorable Mention Little All American and the team Played in the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando Florida. George enrolled in summer school classes during the summer breaks and attended Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class at Quantico, Virginia and when he graduated from East Texas in 1955, he received his BA and his USMC commission at the same time.  Starting his Marine Corps Service he eventually was sent to Camp Pendleton. After his discharge in 1957, his first teaching/coaching job was at Garden Grove High School as the line coach and assistant baseball coach. George held assistant coaching jobs in football and baseball at various high schools in the Los Angeles area until 1964 when he left Savannah high school in Anaheim to coach El Segundo High School. He coached the Eagles to their first championship in 13 years. In 1968 George was selected to lead a new community College, Saddleback.  and he was the chairman of the Division of Health Physical Education, Director of Athletics, and Head Football Coach.  . In the second year of completion their first in a conference George was selected as Desert Conference Coach of the Year in 1969.  This was added to four Coach of the Year Awards in the Mission Conference 1970, 1972, 1973, and 1975, and Orange County Coach of the Year honors in 1970, 1972, 1973. His record at Saddleback from 1969-1975 was 57-11-4, the best win loss record in the state for that time period. Dr. Harold Glass was a former player and assistant coach and now is widely recognized in the pharmaceutical industry. He has established graduate school Fellowship at the University of North Carolina, The George Hartman Fellowship “to honor the importance those who have made a difference in our lives”. George has been married to his wife for 61 years and have a daughter Donna.

Jay’s career has been similar to several of last year’s Hall of Fame inductees, in that they grew up within a 7 mile radius of the institutions where they played sports and also coached and taught. In Jay’s case it was Berkeley High 1972-1976, Albany High 1977, and he began his coaching career as an assistant at Laney College as an adjunct assistant coach in 1978 for Stan Peters, who is also in the CCCFCA HALL OF FAME. He was an adjunct coach until 1999 when he was hired full time in physical education and assistant football coach. During his first 15 years he coached the linebackers and the last 14   years as an assistant were spent coaching defensive backs.  During those years as an assistant, he coached and  developed many All Conference, All Region, and All American defensive players. As Laney’s Defensive Coordinator, the Eagles defense was always among the best in the state  in Community College Football. Jay developed defenses that were acknowledged for their quickness, toughness, and on the “cutting edge” of defensive football. and is seen by the facts that they had the number one defense in the nation twice, were ranked first in defense in the state 4 times and out of 20 years Laney was ranked among  the top 15 defensive teams 10 times. In 2006 Jay became the head coach and earned Mid Empire Coach of the Year in 2007, and in 2009 was the Golden Gate Conference, and Region Coach of the Year. HE NEVER MISSED A DAY OF PRACTICE IN 40 YEARS, (even after an Achilles operation that was done on the same day of practice in 2011). He is retired and has been with Robin Davis for 38 years. They have 2 Labrador retrievers Darla and Stymie.  His Father  Sam is still living and is 98 years old. 

Bob Mastin, Contributor - 
Santa Rosa Junior College

Matt Collins posthumuosly presenting the HOF award for Bob Mastin to Lenny Wagner, SRJC Athletic Director

Bob grew up in Mountain View which was a  small village next to Stanford University. Bob was a three sport athlete at Mountain View High School.  His high school coach Cook Sypher, was a close friend of Ernie Nevers the great All American running back who had also played at Santa Rosa J. C. on their first football team.  Nevers was an assistant coach at Stanford for legendary Pop Warner and would also help his friend, coach Sypher, at the High School.  When Bob graduated from Mountain View he transferred to Santa Rosa J.C. in 1937 to play for coach Sypher who had been hired by the Bearcubs. Bob was the captain of the football team in 1938, All Conference in football and basketball and the football team was undefeated.  Transferring to Stanford in 1940 he played guard and end on the team known as the “Wow Boys”. They were coached by Clark Schaughnessy, and were undefeated and beat Nebraska in the Rose Bowl January 1, 1941 running the “New T Formation”. Bob  enlisted in the Navy  with his BA Stanford degree,  spent most of the war in the Pacific teaching fitness and running recreation programs for the duration. In 1946 he returned to Stanford to complete his Masters and was asked to help coach the football team in Spring practice. In the Autumn of 1946, Bob was hired as the line coach and head basketball coach at Santa Rosa J. C. During his 33 year career at Santa Rosa, he was the head basketball coach for 15 years, and assistant football coach for 17 years, and head football coach from 1952 thru 1963. The 1950 Bearcat football team was undefeated and played in the Gold Dust Bowl in Vallejo and defeated La Salle Peru of Illinois  and was considered by many the best J.C. team in the nation. During the 1950’s and until 1962, Bob also coached Baseball and in 1952 won the state championship. He started the golf program in 1954.  The norm for coaches during those decades, it was common for all coaches to coach 2 or 3 sports a year. In 62’ he became Athletic Director and as the head football coach his teams won the Golden Valley  Conference in 1962, 63’ and 64’, and played in 2 bowl games the Prune bowl, and Lettuce Bowl. He retired in 1979 and Bob’s contribution to the athletic history of Santa Rosa J. C. and enrichment of athletic culture in the Santa Rosa area are  unparalleled. Bob is 96  years old, lives with his son Jim in Ukiah. He and the remaining participants from the 1950 championship team meet twice a year.

A graduate of Mater Dei High School, Jim  was an All County All Star in 1971, and continued his education and football career at Saddleback College. Jim was a throwback to the “Old Days” when a player played offense and defense and any other position on the field that needed special athletic skills. He started on offense as a Wide Receiver and on defense started as a Defensive Back. Additionally he returned punts and kickoffs and held for extra points.  In his Freshman year, 1973, he was All Conference as a defensive back, and in 1974, Jim was All Conference Wide Receiver and  Defensive Back. He could do it all.  As a sophomore he led all of Orange County in scoring with 12 td’s, and pass receptions with 61, at a time when 61 passes could have been a seasons total for passes caught in  a season by an entire team.  Saddleback was 8-1-1 his sophomore year and he led the team in 7 categories, td’s, points scored, interceptions, return yards, receiving yards, and kickoff returns. He has 2 Gaucho records that  have not been BROKEN IN FORTY YEARS, 3 INTERCEPTIONS IN ONE Game and 12 interceptions in a career. He went on to Cal Poly Pomona in 1975 where he led the nation in interceptions with 12. To cap his college career he was honored with All CCCAA defensive back in 1975 and 1976, and an All American Honorable Mention in 1975. Earning a BA in Hotel and Restaurant Management, he now is the successful owner of Ball Park Pizza, In Mission Viejo. He is a charter member of the first Saddleback Athletic Hall of Fame, has  been active in supporting various community projects, and fundraisers, for the schools and Saddleback College. In 2006 he was honored as Saddleback Alumnus of the Year.  Jim has assisted  the Santa Margarita Catholic High school track team for sixteen years. He and his wife Diane met in college and have been married for 35 years.  

Attending Bishop Montgomery High school in one of the toughest conferences in Southern California, Nui was All league in the Big 5 as a free safety in 1986, in 1987 he was All League at Quarterback and passed for over 1,000 yards ran for over another 1,000 yards, scored 4 TD’s  each in 3 games and in one of those games ran for 277 yards. 1988 Nui was the All League safety, and in 1989 his senior season, he  broke his throwing hand during the first game of the season and transferred positions to defensive back and made All League again. Continuing his education at El Camino in 1989 he was All Conference at free safety  and was also  being named All American, and in addition was named the athlete of the decade by Cal High Sports.  His next move was to the University of Missouri where he played free safety and returned punts. He holds the highest single season record for average for punt returns ( 17.4 yards). As a defensive back he had 201 tackles 15 interceptions and 120 career kick off returns. Nui was an electrifying player at every level. After his college career Nui played in the Arena League and was All League at free safety for the Sacramento Attack as a defensive specialist in 1990. In 1993 he was All League as a linebacker and receiver for the Miami Hootersn. In 1994 he was with the Massachusetts Marauders, and 1995 he completed his pro carreer playing for the St. Louis Stampede.  Nui continues working in football during the season by coaching   defensive backs at Carson High in 1990, and at Santa Monica College, Bishop Montgomery High, until 2010. In 1996 he was a co founder of AIGA a foundation group of Samoan high school teachers, coaches and former professional athletes who wanted to make a difference in their local community by mentoring student-athletes.  He is a teamster and drives for movie locations. He and Gwen have 3 children, Maimalie14, Kenneth 13, and Obrien 7.

Jack Steptoe played wide receiver at Los Angeles Valley College in 1974. In 1975 he was All Conference and the Monarchs won the conference and defeated Fresno City College in the Potato bowl and won the mythical National Championship.  Jack was awarded the Most Valuable player in the game and during that season caught 38  passes and 9 touchdowns. He continued his education at the University of Utah in 1976 and was the Rookie of the Year. He was All Conference in 1976 and 1977 as a receiver and punt returner, and was an All American nominee his Senior year.  The 6’1” 180 pound receiver set numerous receiving records at Utah and  many records still remain unbroken. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in 1978 and played wide receiver. His career as wide receiver in professional football continued with the San Francisco 49ers, the Washington Redskins, and in 1980 he completed his NFL career with the Philadelphia Eagles, and San Diego Chargers. In 1983 he played with the Oklahoma Outlaws in the USFL as a wide receiver. Jack began his coaching career as an assistant coach in 1984, at College of the Desert and intermittently for 15 years. He had two short stints of high school coaching at Palm Desert sandwiched in between 1994 and 2005. The 2005 Palm Desert team ended with the best season record in school history 12-1. During those years Palm Desert won the schools first of 2 DVL Championships.. Jack was hired to be the Head Football Coach at College of the desert in 2014.

Dick Stuetz, Asst Coach - Saddleback College

Karen Stuetz, daughter of Dick Stuetz, accepting the HOF award on his behalf

Dick passed in December and The Coaches Association wishes to extend our condolences too his family.    Dick is another member of the Hall of Fame that grew up and spent his entire life living, teaching, and coaching, within 45 miles of where he grew up on the Westside of LA. He  attended  George Washington High School, where he lettered in  baseball and participated in other intramural sports like football, basketball, and of course spent time at the beach surfing, and playing beach volleyball. After he graduated from Washington High in 1951, he transferred to Los Angeles City College where he again lettered in baseball and earned his A.A. degree.  Dick transferred to UCLA as a junior, continued his  Baseball career and graduated in 1955 with a B.S. degree. He had wanted to be a coach since he was a youngster in his early teens, and he continued his education earning  a Masters degree in Kinesiology from Chapman College. He began coaching in the Anahiem school district in 1964, and coached football and baseball at several different high schools. He moved on to Saddleback College in 1969 when he was hired by George Hartman, and had been the defensive line coach for George, Ken Swearingen, Bill Cunerty  and Mark McElroy. Dick coached until his retirement in 2003. He was one of the important cogs in helping his co-coaches at Saddleback win 3 National Championships and many Conference Championships. He coached over 1600 players and has been involved in an amazing 264 wins, 97 losses, and 7 tie football games. As a defensive line coach, he was small in stature but a giant among the men he coached.  Dick also coached the Gauchos baseball team to  Saddlebacks  First two conference titles in baseball. After retiring he taught golf and and helped open Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club. One of   his passions was traveling with his family and they went on more than 10 cruises. Dick and his wife were married 47 years and have a daughter Karen and son, Michael. 

A graduate of Mater Dei High School, Jim  was an All County All Star in 1971, and continued his education and football career at Saddleback College. Jim was a throwback to the “Old Days” when a player played offense and defense and any other position on the field that needed special athletic skills. He started on offense as a Wide Receiver and on defense started as a Defensive Back. Additionally he returned punts and kickoffs and held for extra points.  In his Freshman year, 1973, he was All Conference as a defensive back, and in 1974, Jim was All Conference Wide Receiver and  Defensive Back. He could do it all.  As a sophomore he led all of Orange County in scoring with 12 td’s, and pass receptions with 61, at a time when 61 passes could have been a seasons total for passes caught in  a season by an entire team.  Saddleback was 8-1-1 his sophomore year and he led the team in 7 categories, td’s, points scored, interceptions, return yards, receiving yards, and kickoff returns. He has 2 Gaucho records that  have not been broken in forty years, 3 interceptions in one game and 12 interceptions in a career. He went on to Cal Poly Pomona in 1975 where he led the nation in interceptions with 12. To cap his college career he was honored with All CCCAA defensive back in 1975 and 1976, and an All American Honorable Mention in 1975. Earning a BA in Hotel and Restaurant Management, he now is the successful owner of Ball Park Pizza, In Mission Viejo. He is a charter member of the first Saddleback Athletic Hall of Fame, has  been active in supporting various community projects, and fundraisers, for the schools and Saddleback College. In 2006 he was honored as Saddleback Alumnus of the Year.  Jim has assisted  the Santa Margarita Catholic High school track team for sixteen years. He and his wife Diane met in college and have been married for 35 years.