Boerne High football fans knows that the 2022 Greyhounds are off to the best start in program history at 11-0 after last week’s win against Taylor.
A victory on Friday at Alamo Heights against Pleasanton will give them 12 wins to match the 2004 squad that has the most victories in program history.
While the 2022 and 2004 teams were and are special and hold school records, the one that blazed the trail before them was the 1963 team.
The 1963 squad only lost one game all year and finished the year at 10-1-1. They had a tie against Marble Falls and back then, schools didn’t break ties, they just let the games end that way.
The 10 wins was the most in program history until the 2004 team passed them up. That ’04 went on to finish at 12-2 and played in the state semifinals in Waco.
The 1963 squad won a playoff game and another Greyhound football team didn’t win a postseason game for 39 years until the 2002 team defeated Jefferson in the Alamodome, 33-0.
Eight different Boerne teams that made the playoffs between ’63 and ’02 tried but couldn’t win a postseason contest, although times were different then and only one team went to the playoffs for some of that time frame. The UIL eventually let in two teams, then three and now four make it to the postseason.
After the 2002 snapped the 39-year drought, several BHS teams have claimed victories, but back then, a team had to win district to make it since only one team advanced to the playoffs. If the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the state were in the same district, it was tough luck for one of them because only one advanced.
The 2022 and 2004 teams passed the 1963 squad for most wins in a season but the one record that the ’63 Hounds hold that might never be broken is the number of shutouts they recorded that year.
Boerne finished with 8 shutouts in 12 games and outscored opponents 318 to 50 on the season.
The 1963 team, which has been inducted into the Boerne ISD Hall of Honor, was only the second BHS squad to win a playoff game up to that point, with the first win coming in 1959 when the Greyhounds beat Cotulla under coach Charles Curington, 19-8.
In 1963, Boerne defeated Somerset in the first round 44-6 and then faced Woodsboro in the second round where they were defeated 20-12.
What was significant about that loss to Woodsboro was that they played on the night of Nov. 22, 1963, the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
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