The Holy Bowl
The annual football game with Holy Cross is known as "The Holy Bowl." Central Catholic leads the series 34-10. First game was played in November 1963 at the old Missions Stadium on a Sunday. Central won that first meeting. The only years that these two teams didn't play were 1974 & 1975 (due to reclassifying the division) and 1994, 1995, 1996, & 1997 due to the intensity of the rivalry.
The game is usually played at the end of the regular season for the district title. In 2012, however, marked the first time in the history of the series that the Central Catholic Buttons and the Holy Cross Knights have met in their season opener. The scheduling changed when Holy Cross was dropped from Division I to Division II in the realignment by the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools this year.
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