Tom Saylor was Hudson's head football coach from 1966-76 after playing high school football at Deerfield from 1956-59, graduating in 1960, and graduating from Eastern Michigan University in 1964. He began teaching and coaching at Hudson that fall, starting as a middle school coach in 1964, moving to junior varsity in 1965, and becoming head varsity coach in 1966. On September 20, 1968, the Tigers began a winning streak that lasted eight seasons. As that streak was building, Saylor visited the 8th grade football team in 1971 and told them they would be the team to break the national record; four years later, that prediction came true when Hudson beat Kalamazoo Hackett for its 72nd straight win. The Streak brought Hudson national attention, and Saylor's teams won 10 consecutive LCAA championships from 1967-76, still an LCAA record. In 1975 the Tigers reached the first-ever MHSAA state football playoffs, but lost to Ishpeming 38-22 in the MHSAA state championship game on November 22, 1975. The 72 straight wins remains the Michigan state record, and Saylor's 11-season coaching record at Hudson was 94-5-1. Under his leadership, the Tigers were named Class C state football champions three times from 1972-74 by the Associated Press and were Class C state runners-up from 1969-71. The Winning Streak teams of 1968-75 were inducted into the Michigan Hall of Fame in May 1976. Saylor left Hudson in the summer of 1977, later served for more than two decades as head coach at Angola High School in Indiana, and was inducted into the MHSFCA Hall of Fame in 1991.