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OLD SCHOOL: Banning-Beaumont Before Facemasks, in Black-and-White
It is one of the oldest football rivalries in California. Yearbook photos show predecessors of today's Broncos and Cougars, who face off at 7 p.m. tonight to see who's best in the San Gorgonio Pass.
When the Banning-Beaumont football rivalry started many decades ago, helmets didn't have facemasks and photos were strictly black-and-white.
Yearbook photos show predecessors of today's Broncos and Cougars, who face off at 7 p.m. tonight to see who's best in the San Gorgonio Pass.
The images are from the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s, when each team enjoyed spells of dominance.
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Back then, winners of the Banning-Beaumont sometimes referred to themselves as "King of the Mountain."
Last year Beaumont smoked Banning 38-0 on the Broncos' brand-new field.
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Tonight Banning will try to return the favor in Beaumont.
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