Banning High to Appeal Decision on Probation

Banning High School in Wilmington will appeal a decision to place the school’s football team on probation for forfeiting a game rather than playing Dorsey High School on its home field in southwest Los Angeles.

Concerned because of a near-riot after last year’s Banning-Dorsey game and recent gang-related shootings in the Dorsey area, the school elected to forfeit the Nov. 1 game rather than play at Dorsey’s home field. The CIF City Section’s Interscholastic Athletics Committee this week placed Banning on probation through 1992, and ordered that next year’s Banning-Dorsey game be played on Dorsey turf.

The appeal process will begin Tuesday when Banning’s arguments will be heard by a three-member panel of two high school principals and Richard L. Browning, administrator of the district’s senior high school division. If Banning loses, the school can continue to appeal until reaching the school board.