Boerne High football fans knows that the 2022 Greyhounds are off to the best start in program history at 12-0.
This 2022 Greyhounds tied the 2004 team for the most wins with 12 but this year’s group is still playing and had a chance for 13 wins in this week’s game against Port Lavaca Calhoun.
While the 2022 team can rewrite just about every record in school history, 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 ’64 and ’01 tried but couldn’t win a postseason contest.
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 so there are just more opportunities today.
After the 2002 team 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 have 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 in late November around the time of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1963 SCOREBOARD
Boerne 20, Somerset 16
Boerne 26, Medina Valley 0
Boerne 20, St. Mary’s Fredericksburg 0
Boerne 20, Sabinal 0
Boerne 8, Marble Falls 8
Boerne 36, Lytle 0
Boerne 44, Comfort 0
Boerne 14, Blanco 0
Boerne 28, Bandera 0
Boerne 46, Junction 0
FIRST ROUND PLAYOFFS
Boerne 44, Somerset 6 (Bi-District)
SECOND ROUND PLAYOFFS
Boerne 12, Woodsboro 20 (Regional)
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