There simply couldn't be a more beautiful setting for a high school football game than Helm Field at Los Gatos High School. And it was on that field, with the lush Santa Cruz Mountains as a backdrop, where the Los Gatos Wildcats opened the 2002 season on Sept. 13.
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Photograph by George Sakkestad
Head coach Butch Cattolico talks things over with lineman Logan Graff during Friday's game.
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It was a warm Friday evening when Butch Cattolico led his Wildcats into battle against Aragon in the season opener for each school.
The cheerleaders encouraged a spirited crowd, the deep tones of the public address announcer echoed through the bleachers and the smoke from the snack shack barbecue pit curled into the air, disappearing into the clear September sky ... the sights, the sounds and the smells of high school football were back for another season.
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Photograph by George Sakkestad
Cheerleader Samantha Vickery helps to charge up the Friday night crowd.
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It's the way high school football was meant to be played—under the lights, on a Friday night, cheering on the hometown team.
Does it get any better than this? Well, yes it does—the Wildcats shut out Aragon 34-0.
And another high school football season begins for Los Gatos.
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Photograph by George Sakkestad
Mike Loomer and the rest of the Los Gatos High School band perform during halftime.
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Photograph by George Sakkestad