The Carson Colts have been:

• City Champs 9 times
• City Runnersup 9 times
• League Champs 15 times, and
• League Runnersup 11 times.

The Colts made the “play-offs” for 24 consecutive years.

Over their 32 seasons, the Carson Colts have won 267 games out of 355 games played (against 67 opponents), for a 75.64% winning record!

During those 355 games played, the Colts outscored their opponents 10,260 points to 4,482 points (or an average of 28.9 points per game, to their opponents’ 12.6 points).

Carson has finished first or second in League play 25 times in 32 seasons.

In the play-offs, Carson won 57 of the 74 play-off games, losing only 17, a 77% play-off record. (In those play-off games, the Colts outscored their opponents 2,119 to 987.)

Carson set a record in winning ten or more games for ten consecutive seasons.

The Colts won every single game they played during three seasons (1966, 1971 & 1972), and during nine other seasons, they only lost a single game each year.

183 individual Carson Colts’ players have been named “All City” (an average of five per season), by local sportscasters from the 49th District schools. Only 22 players "All City" players are selected each year, from 49 schools, and from a pool of 1,078 potential starters (so Carson's players represent over 26% of the “All City” team members). The Colts have had at least two All City selections for the last 29 years! And 25 Colt players have been named to two consecutive “All City” teams (most recently, Fa’avae Fa’avae, who was picked for both the 1993 and 1994 “All City” teams).

Carson has shut out their opponents 70 times, but have only been shut out 8 times in 355 games. (The Colts went for 147 games in a row without being shut out.)

Six Carson Colts have been named “Player of the Year” (MVP).

Out of 297 games played against L.A. City Schools, the Colts won 234 (and tied 2), scoring 8,947 points (against 3,646 points scored by their opponents).

     In 1971, Carson High had eleven players voted to to the “All City” team (11, out of 22 players selected from 49 teams), including the ENTIRE Carson offensive line, wide receiver Wesley Walker, and both starting running backs. The 1971 colts scored 68 touchdowns, averaged 40 points scored per game, (for a season total of 482 points), gained an average of 417 yards per game, and scored 33 touchdowns rushing.

The 1971 Colts set numerous team season records (* many of which still stand today), including the most:

• total points scored (482),
• average points scored per game (40),
• total rushing yards (3,427)*,
• total touchdowns in a season (16),
• average rushing yards in a game (284.75)*,
• average yards gained in a game (417)*,
• fewest sacks by opponents (4)*,
• most fumbles recovered (41)*,
• most interceptions (33)*,

  plus several game records, such as the most rushing plays in a game (56)* and the most passes intercepted in a game (7)*,

Carson had 8 players selected to the “All City” team in 1990, and the 1990 Carson Colts set a number of team season records that still stand today.
Among them:

• the most total touchdowns in a season (78)
• the most total points scored in a season (542)
• the most passes completed (244)
• the most touchdowns via passing (51)
• the most yards gained in a season (5235)
• the most total first downs (237)
• the best turn-over ratio (+25)
• the most extra point kicks (53)
• the highest average gain per play (8.64 yards), and
• the most interceptions returned for touchdowns (6).

     The most touchdowns ever scored by the Carson Colts in a single football game was 12, in a 1977 games against University High school, when the Colts scored a total of 81 points!

     The most points scored in a Play-off game was 61, in the 1993 playoff game against Garfield High.

In 1966, Jimmy Sander was picked to be the quarterback for the “All City” team, and led the Colts to a City championship. 26 years later, Jamie Sander was also picked to be the quarterback for the “All City” Team, and he too led the Colts to a City championship.

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