Howe HS/Billerica Memorial HS Football History
GEOCITIES IS CLOSING ON 10/26/09. WE'RE WORKING ON RELOCATING THE SITE. MAY BE DOWN FOR A WHILE.
Week 5: Tewksbury 12, Billerica 7 (Next Week: Lawrence at HOME 10/16/09 7PM; First Meeting Since 1995)

Letter from the author

 

August 12, 2009

 

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)