Game Number 753 in school history. Howe has a record of 381-347-24 since 1935. Howe has lost nine games in a row dating back to last season’s regional playoff loss to eventual state champion Mineola. It is the longest losing streak for the Bulldogs football program since a 12-game losing streak from October 2004 – October 2005.
The Bulldogs are scoring an average of 11.38 points per game which the 16th fewest in the 74 years of the program. On the flip side, the defense is allowing 37.50 points per game which is ranks 73rd of the 74 teams. Statistically speaking, this Howe Bulldogs team has a point-per-game margin of -26.13 which is the worst among all Bulldogs teams going back to 1935. The previous mark was -25.00 per game by the 2004 team. Howe’s defense is allowing 385.13 yards per game which is the most of all recorded teams in Howe history. But it is without question, no Howe team has ever played a tougher schedule than the one this current season.
This 2017 season has been eerily similar to the team 25 years ago that went 2-8 after Howe had gone through several seasons of winning records and gold footballs. That year Joey McQueen, who had the fifth best team in school history in 1991, all of a sudden had the third worst in 1992. Howe scored 27 and gave up 7 on average in 1991 only to reverse the trend in 1992 and score 10 per game and allow 27. The 2016 Bulldogs scored 31 per game and allowed 22 and the 2017 Bulldogs have scored an average of 11 and allowed 38. With a shallow pipeline, the 1992 reversal season for McQueen became his final year in Howe as he took the same position at Mason ISD before the 1993 season. Howe Head Coach Zack Hudson, however, has a pipeline that is stocked, but not until the current seventh graders arrive as freshmen in two years.
The Series:
Howe is 14-19-1 against Pilot Point going back to 1935. The Bearcats won 8-straight from 1989-1998 and the streak was snapped on one of the greatest games in school history when Howe won, 28-14 in the bi-district championship in Denton. Since that game, the series is even at 2-2 for each team.
| 11/15/1935 | 32 | Pilot Point | 0 |
| 11/7/1936 | 26 | Pilot Point | 6 |
| 10/22/1937 | 6 | Pilot Point | 8 |
| 10/21/1938 | 12 | Pilot Point | 0 |
| 10/20/1939 | 14 | Pilot Point | 0 |
| 11/1/1940 | 34 | Pilot Point | 0 |
| 11/14/1941 | 20 | at Pilot Point | 0 |
| 11/13/1942 | 42 | Pilot Point | 0 |
| 11/19/1943 | 7 | at Pilot Point | 14 |
| 11/10/1944 | 12 | Pilot Point | 0 |
| 11/16/1945 | 6 | at Pilot Point | 0 |
| 11/22/1946 | 6 | Pilot Point | 6 |
| 11/21/1947 | 0 | at Pilot Point | 6 |
| 11/4/1948 | 6 | Pilot Point | 19 |
| 11/8/1974 | 13 | Pilot Point | 7 |
| 11/7/1975 | 12 | at Pilot Point | 34 |
| 10/15/1976 | 7 | at Pilot Point | 3 |
| 10/14/1977 | 8 | Pilot Point | 21 |
| 9/19/1980 | 0 | at Pilot Point | 43 |
| 9/18/1981 | 0 | Pilot Point | 45 |
| 11/14/1986 | 7 | Pilot Point – Bi District | 28 |
| 9/23/1988 | 17 | Pilot Point | 14 |
| 9/29/1989 | 23 | at Pilot Point | 36 |
| 9/28/1990 | 0 | at Pilot Point | 24 |
| 9/27/1991 | 3 | Pilot Point | 7 |
| 10/16/1992 | 0 | Pilot Point | 39 |
| 10/15/1993 | 6 | Pilot Point | 21 |
| 9/27/1996 | 7 | at Pilot Point | 35 |
| 9/26/1997 | 20 | Pilot Point | 34 |
| 9/11/1998 | 0 | at Pilot Point | 43 |
| 11/13/1998 | 28 | Pilot Point – Bi District Champs | 14 |
| 9/16/1999 | 12 | Pilot Point | 20 |
| 11/18/1999 | 14 | Pilot Point – Bi District | 30 |
| 10/28/2016 | 31 | Pilot Point | 3 |
Howe vs. Pilot Point, Bi-District, 1986
Howe at Pilot Point, 1989
Howe at Pilot Point, 1990
Howe vs. Pilot Point, 1991
Howe’s last win vs. Pilot Point, Bi-District, 1998
On this date in Bulldogs History
1939, Howe beat Denison B team, 39-0
1944, Howe beat Celina, 35-0
1960. Howe beat Lindsay, 26-6
1961, Howe lost to Royse City, 44-0
1967, Howe beat Anna, 32-7
1972, Howe beat Pottsboro, 21-0 (first ever meeting with the Cardinals)
1978, Whitewright beat Howe, 21-0
1989, Howe beat Van Alstyne, 35-13
1995, Anna beat Howe, 20-7
2000, Whitewright beat Howe, 20-7
2006, S&S beat Howe, 30-20