Hudson High School Football Teams

Hudson High School Football Teams

Seventy-Two Game Winning Streak (1968 – 1975)

From the second game of the 1968 football season through the semi-final game of the 1975 season, eight Hudson High School Football teams went on a magical run that took them to national prominence. Led by Hall of Fame coach Tom Saylor, the Tigers would go on a winning streak that, at that time, had never been matched. For seventy-two consecutive games the Tigers were victorious, topping at that time the previous National record of seventy-one games set by Jefferson City, Missouri from 1958 to 1966. The previous Michigan record was the forty-four-game winning streak of Morenci High School from 1948 to 1953. During Hudson’s winning streak, they outscored the opposition by an average of roughly 33 to 5 with 35 shutouts. Coach Saylor was never one to speak about winning, rather, he would implore his players “to give their best effort every time they were on the field”. To the 180 or so players that were a part of the streak, they certainly must have listened. The Hudson High School football teams were inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1976.