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Howe will play Hughes Springs (8-3) Friday night at 7:30 at Van Memorial Stadium in Van, Texas located in Van Zandt County.  Howe will be the home team, but will wear all white again.

Hughes Springs defeated New Diana 49-18 on Friday night.

Howe set a playoff record by scoring 30 points by beating Cooper 30-20.  Howe’s previous playoff point high was 28 which happened twice.

Howe is 1-7 vs. Cooper dating back to the initial game in 1978.

Howe’s lone win came in a 6-0 win in 1979.  Since then, Howe has lost six in a row.  One of the most exciting games in school history occurred in week one of the 1989 season when #8 ranked Cooper was led by future NFL star Bam Morris and future SMU player Byron Bonds.  Howe had the best senior class since 1970.  Howe, down 24-22, had the ball at the Cooper one yard line about to score with :30 left on the clock, but fumbled the ball and Cooper recovered and came away with the win.

Howe shocks Texas and Pilot Point, advances 28-14

November 13, 1998

Howe had a really good football team in 1998 and everyone knew it.  However, when the Bulldogs were pitted against Pilot Point in the first round of the playoffs, no one gave them a chance.  Howe had been blasted in game two of the season by Pilot Point by a score of 43-0 in Pilot Point.  However, the ‘Dogs possessed, statistically, one of the top three running backs in school history in Nathanael Falls.  It was Falls’ four touchdowns that propelled the Bulldogs to the shocking win in Denton on this evening.  It was also the “Pete Simmons letter” that was re-used and re-catered from the 1990 Celina playoff game and secretly  distributed from the 1990 players to the 1998 team as they left for Denton on the bus that helped motivate them to the biggest playoff upset and the #1 most exciting win in school history.

Howe shocks Celina, advances on penetrations

November 17, 1990

The 1990 Howe Bulldogs had a new coach, Joey McQueen, and ten new offensive starters from the previous team that advanced the the regional finals in 1989.  Howe was not expected to have much of a season and they started like it with a 2-4 record.  However, a few adjustments made by the coaching staff and a mid-season speech by former Superintendent Pete Simmons rallied the team to sneak in the playoffs in a do-or-die game vs. Bells to end the regular season.  Howe rallied and won that game in come-from-behind fasion, 21-11.

Howe then was faced with the monumental challenge of facing Celina in the bi-district round of the playoffs in Plano at John Clark Stadium.  Celina, under G.A. Moore was favored by 17 points to beat the ‘Dogs.  As that team would do so many times, they came from behind in the second half, down 14-0.  Damion Horton would score on a jump ball in the endzone from a pass from Wade Carson and Michael Ross would later run it in for the tying score.  Howe’s defense gave up a total of 12 yards to Celina in the second half and only one first down.  Michael Bailey tallied 127 yards on 18 carries to lead Howe in one of the most exciting playoff games in the school’s history.