1917 found Hord enrolling in art night classes at San Diego High School, under the tutelage of Anna Valentine, a sculptor and potter who had at one point studied in Paris with Auguste Rodin.
As a student of San Diego High School, in San Diego, California, Freel learned about aerodynamics under the instruction of LeTain Kittredge, in the aircraft rigging/woodshop class.
The first song he ever formally recorded was in a recording studio at San Diego Senior High School.
Since there is no public high school in the neighborhood, students are given the choice of attending Point Loma High School or San Diego High School.
After coaching at San Diego High School, he served as the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1926 to 1930, compiling the a record of 27–17–3, and the head men's basketball coach at Berkeley from 1924 to 1954, tallying a mark of 453–294.
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