In 1999, Detroit Henry Ford won the Detroit Public School League championship. This was Henry Ford's first title since 1993 and second for its head coach and offensive guru, Coach Mike Marshall.

Coach Marshall was named the head coach at Henry Ford in the middle of the 1990 season but he continued to use his mentor's (Joe Hoskins) offensive system, which was a wing system. Despite Marshall's initial success using the Hoskins wing and winning a PSL championship in 1993, Marshall discovered there were limits to the Hoskins wing's effectiveness when the right pieces (i.e., players) were not on the field. Therefore, Marshall began to tweak the wing and in 1999 he developed the right blend of offensive schemes to match the players on the field.

In 1999, Henry Ford's offense averaged 36 ppg and scored 327 points through the first nine games of the season. The 327 points scored through the first nine games was 74 points more than the next highest offensive output in 1993, which was 253 points. The difference in scoring from 1998 to 1999 was 117 points or 13 points per game.

Henry Ford's offense had two Detroit News Dream Team selections in Damon Dowdell (quarterback) and Eric Knott (tight end). Dowdell passed for 2001 yards and 23 TDs and ran for 617 yards and 9 TDs. Eric Knott had 686 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns. Both Dowdell and Knott signed with Michigan State University.

The 1999 Henry Ford offense was one of the best offenses in the history of Detroit Public School League football and Coach Mike Marshall deserves a lot of credit for his innovation as an offensive play-caller and pure genius as a football coach.