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Francis Howell High School football

Francis Howell plays high school football in Missouri.

Coming soon

Missouri is coming to Hometown Line

You’re in the right place, and the whole site is open to you. We only show scores a state’s association lets us read and credit, and Missouri’s aren’t readable yet. Here’s how Francis Howell gets on, and how to play in the meantime.

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Every game on the board is open to you, in any state. Call the week’s biggest games, or follow a state next door.

Getting Francis Howell on the site

Missouri isn’t published yet. The MSHSAA's site asks every automated reader to stay out, so we have not read it.

In the meantime, a coach, athletic director or team manager can put a school’s season on the site through the Team Desk, and the letter below still asks them to publish.

Ask them

Write to Missouri State High School Activities Association or your school's athletic director. Address it to the association’s office or your athletic director — the contact page on their site has it.

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Subject: Schedules and scores for Missouri high-school football

Dear Missouri State High School Activities Association,

I am a fan of Francis Howell. I follow the season on Hometown Line (hometownline.com), a free game of skill and prediction for high-school football. There is no money in it: readers predict results and are scored on how well they read the games.

Missouri is not on the site yet because the schedules and scores are published in a way that does not allow another site to read them. I am writing to ask that Missouri State High School Activities Association allow Hometown Line to read the schedules and scores it already publishes, or publish them as a feed. The site reads only what it is allowed to, identifies itself, and credits Missouri State High School Activities Association on every game.

Thank you for considering it.

Yours sincerely,
A supporter of Francis Howell

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Francis Howell High School is a four-year public high school located in unincorporated St. Charles County, Missouri. Approximately 1,800 students from Cottleville, Defiance, New Melle, O'Fallon, Saint Peters, Weldon Spring, and Weldon Spring Heights attend the school. It is part of the Francis Howell School District.

From the school’s Wikipedia article, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

On the field

5 state titles.

From Francis Howell’s own article. Counts and years are facts, so they are stated here rather than quoted.

What is on record

Wherereal
Missouri
A real programme in a real place.
Sizereal
1,844 students
From the school's own article.
Mascotreal
Victor the Viking
Foundedreal
1881
Typereal
Public high school
School districtreal
Francis Howell School District
The body that runs the school. Not the grouping above, which is ours.

The programme

Notable alumni
9 in all, 3 of them in football
Counted from the school’s own article, which lists people notable enough to have been written up. A programme with none has not produced none.

Everything above comes from Francis Howell’s own article — except the few lines that name a different one — and is real. Hometown Line also runs a scoring model over Missouri high school football. Every prediction it makes is the model’s own. Where Missouri publishes a schedule the site may read, the games ahead are that schedule; where it does not, the fixtures ahead are generated so the model has something to predict. A result is shown only where its source is named.

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