GARDEN GROVE : Haircuts Top Off the Regular Season

Practice after practice, two Garden Grove High School football coaches had the team’s players at their every cry, holler and whim.

On Friday, the players got back at them. Armed with shears and razors, the students took turns at shaving the heads of coaches Ralph Stevens and Brett Morris. At the start of the year, the two coaches had agreed to lose their locks if the team had a winning season.

The team not only won, it got into the playoffs. The Argonauts faced University High School in a playoff game Friday night after a 10-0 regular season record. It was the team’s first playoff appearance since 1984.

At noon, 300 students gathered in the auditorium to see Stevens and Morris lose their hair. Several team members took turns at the scissors, even after good-natured threats from the coaches that next week’s practice would be especially unpleasant.

“You guys better win tonight because I’m shaving my head,” Stevens told them.