61st Orange County North-South All-Star Classic planned Jan. 25 at Orange Coast College

Members of the South team celebrate after last year’s game. (Photo courtesy Mark Bausman, For OC Sports Zone)

The 61^st Annual Orange County North-South All-Star Classic football game will be played in its eighth decade on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020 at Orange Coast College. 

Kick-off is at 7 p.m.

The game, featuring high school senior standouts in Orange County and managed by Costa Mesa United, started in 1959 and is one of the few entities and organizations in Orange County that encompasses the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, ought years, teen years and now the 2020s.

“The Orange County All-Star football game is a community treasure,” Costa Mesa United President Gordon Bowley said. “We are honored and privileged to uphold the standard of managing the all-star game the way the Brea Lions Club did for so many years.”

In 2018, Costa Mesa United switched the game from July to January and added the Los Angeles Chargers as a presenting sponsor. The 2020 All-Star Classic will be the third straight year in which the game is played in January.

In the late 1950s, and with highly successful former Brea-Olinda High football coach Dick Tucker a member of the Brea Lions Club, the organization started the county all-star game in 1959 and named Tucker as the first North coach.

Rosters for the two teams will be announced later.

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