Stadium Project: Central High School (Phoenix, Arizona)

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Posted By: Jeff Fisher February 24, 2020

Central High School’s football field is named after Ray Laing, who coached Central High School to its only high school football state championships in 1969 and 1972. Both years, the Bobcats finished a perfect 13-0.

Central beat St. Mary’s of Phoenix 14-7 for the 1969 Big Schools championship. St. Mary’s was looking for its third straight state title.

In ’72, Central beat Brophy Prep 21-0.

Laing coached high school football in some capacity for over 50 years and was inducted into the first class of the  Phoenix Union High School District Sports Hall of Fame.

Ray Laing Field at Central High School

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Jeff Fisher
Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.

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