LOCAL NOTES : Three County Football Pioneers to Be Honored

Three Orange County football pioneers--Kenny Fagans, Mickey Flynn and Dick Hill--will be honored with the Orange County Sports Assn.’s Football Heritage Award.

Fagans was the CIF Southern Section commissioner from 1954-75; Flynn, former standout running back at Anaheim High School, still holds the county record of 13.9 yards per carry, and Hill, who was a coach at Santa Ana Valley and Santa Ana high schools, set the county record for victories with 196.

The men, who will be recognized at a banquet at the Disneyland Hotel Aug. 25 and during halftime of the Disneyland Pigskin Classic, are linked by the 1956 Southern Section championship game between Anaheim and Downey that drew 41,383 to the Coliseum. Hill was then coaching Downey and the game ended in a 13-13 tie.

Al Howie, who had dropped out of the Runner’s World Trans America Footrace after reaching Las Vegas with serious blisters on his feet, returned as a non-competitor and won the 20th stage from Cisco, Utah, to Fruita, Colo.

Howie, 46, from Scotland, finished the 44.75-mile stage in 7 hours 1 minute 26 seconds. Tom Rogozinski of Hagerstown, Md., the first competitor to finish, was timed in 7:11.27, and he gained ground on leader David Warady of Huntington Beach. Warady has a cumulative time of 152:41.27 for 867.2 miles, 4:26.09 ahead of Rogozinski.

The 3,000-mile, 64-day race continues today with a stage from Fruita to Parachute, Colo.