La Canada Fullback Traughber Earns All-Star Award

Paul Traughber of La Canada High was selected as the West team’s most valuable player in the 11th Hall of Fame high school all-star football game at Citrus College in Azusa on Saturday night.

Traughber, a 6-foot-3, 225-pound fullback headed for Arizona State, rushed for a game-high 75 yards in 19 carries and scored on a one-yard plunge in the second quarter that accounted for the West’s only touchdown in a 14-9 loss.

Illinois-bound quarterback J. J. O’Laughlin of Glendora High was chosen as the East MVP after leading his team to its third Hall of Fame victory in the past four years.

Pat Harrison, The Master’s College baseball coach who took his team to the NAIA District 3 playoffs twice in the past three years, has taken a job as an assistant coach at Oklahoma.

Harrison will be on the staff of new Oklahoma Coach Larry Cochell, who resigned as head coach at Cal State Fullerton earlier this month to take the Sooner post.

Harrison, who was 65-79-1 in three seasons at Master’s, was an assistant under Cochell at Oral Roberts from 1977 to 1986.