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November 11, 2014January 28, 2015

#4 most exciting Howe playoff game in school history

Howe and Sanger tie in bi-district classic

November 27, 1942

The country was at war in the early 40’s and before the 1942 football season, the Howe Bulldogs found themselves without at head coach. The program was about to cancel all games that season until a group of hard-headed junior and senior boys pleaded their case to Superintendent Charles R. Thompson. Mr. Thompson told the boys that if they were serious about playing football, then he would drive the bus to and from games, but the team had to schedule their own practices and call their own plays and coach themselves.

What Mr. Thompson didn’t know was that the self-coached team would be flooded with eventual World War II heroes including Tony Brinkley and L.B. Kirby. That coach-less team achieved an unthinkable district championship and faced Sanger in the bi-district showdown in Whitesboro.

As told by L.B. Kirby in a 1999 interview, with the game tied 12-12, Bulldogs halfback Robert Miller crossed the goal line as time expired, but the officials ruled that he was down at the one yard line. Kirby says that the fans of Sanger were actually yelling at the officials that Howe had scored and won the game. He recalls it to be the only time he ever remembers that the opposing team’s fans were upset that they didn’t win.

November 11, 2014November 11, 2014

History of Veterans Day

World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”

In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…”

The original concept for the celebration was for a day observed with parades and public meetings and a brief suspension of business beginning at 11:00 a.m.

The United States Congress officially recognized the end of World War I when it passed a concurrent resolution on June 4, 1926, with these words:

Whereas the 11th of November 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals and the resumption by the people of the United States of peaceful relations with other nations, which we hope may never again be severed, and

Whereas it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations; and

Whereas the legislatures of twenty-seven of our States have already declared November 11 to be a legal holiday: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the President of the United States is requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on November 11 and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples.

An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday—a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as “Armistice Day.” Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I, but in 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in the Nation’s history; after American forces had fought aggression in Korea, the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word “Armistice” and inserting in its place the word “Veterans.” With the approval of this legislation (Public Law 380) on June 1, 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.

Later that same year, on October 8th, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first “Veterans Day Proclamation” which stated: “In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans’ organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose. Toward this end, I am designating the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs as Chairman of a Veterans Day National Committee, which shall include such other persons as the Chairman may select, and which will coordinate at the national level necessary planning for the observance. I am also requesting the heads of all departments and agencies of the Executive branch of the Government to assist the National Committee in every way possible.”

http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp

We celebrate in Howe by honoring all of our veterans including the most decorated living Texas veteran, L.B. Kirby. Kirby received seven Bronze Stars, two Bronze Arrowheads and a Purple Heart, awarded for his service in the army during World War II.

November 11, 2014January 28, 2015

#5 Most exciting playoff game in school history

Howe edges Farmers in bi-district battle, 10-7

November 15, 1985

“Howe ‘Bout Them Dogs” was the common quote of 1985. Howe went from a 3-2 record at mid-season to a playoff run that went three rounds deep.

This bi-district classic in Bonham was basically a 3-0 Howe win with a 21-yard third quarter Mark Wheeler field goal as the deciding points. Howe and Farmersville would each add a touchdown in the game’s final minute. This game propelled Howe to their first deep playoff run since 1970.