Los Altos High opened in 1954. There was no football history before the school opened! Tom Burt was a great football coach and Los Altos had the best team in its small league for several years. In 1966, Los Altos beat Homestead 28-14 at Foothill College to last go undefeated in football. The next year, Brad Lyman's senior year, Homestead swamped everyone including Los Altos (27-0). But even Homestead was not considered as good as Sequoia High of Redwood City that year. The only other "championship" varsity football team at Los Altos coached by Tom Burt was in 1970 when Los Altos won a "county" championship that did not include the whole county. Cubberly High in Palo Alto was undefeated that year but did not participate in the "county" playoffs. The much larger CCS football playoffs began in 1973. Awalt (now named Mountain View High School) won the CCS football championship in 1974 (I think) and Mountain View High School (now an apt complex and park downtown) also won the CCS football championship shortly therafter. The football teams in those days were better than later teams at those schools but were not as good as, for example, current teams at private schools such as St. Francis. And St. Francis was beaten decisively this year by De La Salle of Concord which, in turn, was bombed 52-21 in the state open championship game by Mater Dei of Santa Ana. But still, everyone liked and admired Tom Burt. The football field at Los Altos properly bears his name.

One correction. Los Altos High football was last unbeaten in 1968 - not that 1966 unbeaten team. That is nearly 50 years of losing at least one game and usually most of them. This past fall, Los Altos was 2-8 against weak competition but beat Mountain View High.