Letter from the
author
Welcome
to the world of Billerica Memorial/Howe High School football
history.
These
pages are records and stats that I have been collecting and keeping for over 15
years. I started my real heavy research into the history of my alma mater’s
football team in 1990 and the task is still on going to retrieve as much
information as possible. I am in need of help looking for the information about
the team prior to 1933. The local papers did not start covering Howe High football games too much until 1935.
The
task is not an easy one; in fact it is very hard work. Going through the back
issues of the local newspapers and relying on several former players to permit
me to take information from their personal scrapbooks and other personal items
is a full time job.
This
letter is a personal thanks to all who helped me with my research and to my
friend Jim Gorman of Melrose, MA (The web site's creator) who dedicated
countless hours to maintaining this web site.
Believe me, Jimmy gets an ear full from me when something doesn’t go
just right or I just can’t get something to work. Thanks for your patience’s Jimbo!
But
this letter is to especially thank you for coming and visiting us here at
hhsbmhsfootballhistory.com.
In
the eight years that this web page has been up and running we have been able to
include pictures of former players, game action shots, team photos, and other
things that has made this site a nice place to visit, especially during the
football season.
Hopefully
soon we will have a special section dedication to the tradition of the
Thanksgiving Day Game with a year-to-year list of the results of all the turkey
day games and the classic rivalries they hold, especially our own classic with
Chelmsford.
You
will also notice that there is a links to other sites that involve Billerica or
other high school football teams. Please take a moment and visit these sites.
More will be added as time goes on, especially the links to YouTube and
Facebook where you will find BMHS football videos and the Howe/BMHS football
alumni page.
This
web page is dedicated to all former Howe High School
and Billerica Memorial High School football players, coaches,
cheerleaders, and marching band members. They have made the Saturday afternoons
and Friday nights from Labor Day to Thanksgiving enjoyable to me and the
thousands of Billerica High football fans who have come out to the games year
after year to cheer on the green and white.
If
anyone out there has any ideas or comments on this web site or would like to
supply information about the team’s history, may do so by one of the following.
Email me at jphaines@comcast.net or sign the new guest book or you may
send the information to me at my home address below.
To
my surprise, and I'm sure yours too, the site was updated by my long lost friend,
Jim Gorman back in May 2008. I received an email from him on Mother's Day
saying he had gone in and made updates to the site, which he called an 'Oil
Change'. I say he down right overhauled the home page and he updated his email
address so you can feel free to email him with your thoughts. It was great
hearing from Jimmy after quite a few years, I had thought I had heard the last
of him, but hopefully we can get back in touch and really fix this site up.
Time will tell. (NOTE: YAHOO! GEOCITIES WILL BE SHUTTING DOWN IN OCTOBER. JIM AND I ARE WORKING ON MOVING THIS SITE TO
ITS REPLACEMENT SERVER. JUST A HEADS UP
IN CASE YOU CAN’T ACCESS THE SITE FOR A WHILE.)
The
schedule of 2009 has been posted and it has some major changes to it. The biggest of those changes is the return of
Lawrence to the Merrimack Valley Conference and the league splitting into two
divisions. Billerica will play in the
large division with Andover, Central Catholic, Chelmsford and Lowell. The league will have all teams play each
other, but crossover games with the small school teams will NOT count in league
standings. When Billerica plays Lawrence
on October 16th, it will be the first game between them since 1995.
With
our Athletic Director, Mike Granfield, now retired, I would like to thank him
for his support and help over the years with getting the schedule and roster to
post here. Mr. Granfield and his wife
Shirley were my class advisors at BMHS.
Thank
you again for visiting my site and enjoy!
God Bless you all.
Good Luck to the Billerica Indians in 2009.
GO BILLERICA HIGH!
Sincerely,
Jim
Haines
Billerica Memorial High School Class
of 1983
2
Letchworth Avenue
North
Billerica, Massachusetts
01862-1152
General Information about Billerica Memorial
High School
Founded
in 1851 as the Howe School by Dr. Zadok
Howe.
Was
called the Howe School from 1851 to
1916 and run as a private academy by Dr. Howe’s estate.
Was
called Howe High School from 1916 to
1955 and was a public school run by the town.
Became
Billerica Memorial High School in
September of 1955.
School
Colors: Green and White
Nickname:
Indians since 1955, was Warriors prior to that.
Address:
35 River Street
Billerica,
Massachusetts 01821
Schools’
alumni association is the second oldest active high school alumni in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1896 the association is currently in
its 113th year in 2008-2009.
To contact the
alumni association, write to:
Howe High School-Billerica Memorial High School Alumni Association
P. O. Box 8
North
Billerica, Massachusetts
01862-0008
School Fight Song
Boola-Boola,
Boola-Boola
That’s the war
cry of Billerica High.
We will down
them. We will crown them.
‘Til they
holler, Boola-Boola.
Boola-Boola,
Boola-Boola
That’s the war
cry of Howe High.
We will down
them. We will crown them.
‘Til they
holler, Boola-Boola.
RAH, RAH!
(Tuned to Yale’s Boola-Boola)