TBT: Winter Garden, Ocoee compete in Dog and Cat Bowl

The annual competition was named for the teams facing each other in Ocoee and Winter Garden, the Bulldogs and the Wildcats.

By Amy Quesinberry Price
| 2:45 p.m. August 11, 2016

Russell Crouch, left, president of the Winter Garden Youth Football League (the Wildcats), and Bob Clark, president of the Ocoee Junior-Senior Football League (the Bulldogs), play tug-oâ€™-war with the trophy that was awarded at the first Dog and Cat Bowl.

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Five Pop Warner Football teams went face-to-face starting in 2005 in what would become the annual Dog and Cat Bowl in West Orange County.

The Ocoee Bulldogs and the Winter Garden Wildcats vied for a special trophy to be presented to the league winning at least three out of the five games.

The winner displayed the trophy in its concession stand for a year before having to compete to keep it the following year.

“We decided to have this post-season bowl between Ocoee and Winter Garden as a fun event to close out our season,” said Russell Crouch, president of the Winter Garden Youth Football League. “It is in no way a grudge match, only a friendly competition.”

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