100 years of Boerne Greyhound football

In honor of the Boerne Greyhounds celebrating 100 years of football in 2024, the Boerne Star will go back through its archives and publish something in every weekend’s issue during the regular season relating to the Boerne High football team from over the years. This week, Arron and Allen Roeder, are the featured Greyhound football players. After playing for the Hounds and graduating from Boerne High in 1944, the brothers served in World War II, and in February 1945, they were aboard the USS Bismarck at the Battle of Iwo Jima when a Japanese kamikaze plane hit the ship and killed 320 crew members including the brothers, who died at the age of 19. Their photos appeared in the March 29, 1945, issue of the Star when they were declared missing at that time. They were later confirmed dead. There is a park in town named after the brothers, they are featured at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg and have their names etched into the monument at Veterans Plaza off Main Street.