The 1934-5 school year brought a giant figure to New Orleans who would have a major impact not only on St. Aloysius College but also on Catholic education in the city in general.

• Because of the large number of brothers, 26, serving at the school, the positions of director of the brothers' religious community and principal of the school were separated.
• Brother Martinian continued as the Director of the Brothers and of the school (the latter position being what today is called President).
• Brother Martin Hernandez, S.C., assumed the position of vice-president, which meant he took charge of the day-to-day operation of the school. So he served as principal even if that title wasn't used. Brother Martin also served as Athletic Director.
• Born in 1904 on a plantation near Donaldsonville LA, he attended the nearby school staffed by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, joining them after high school. He came to New Orleans after stints as principal in Fort Worth TX and Mobile.
• The Aloysian boasted that the enrollment of 670 was "a mark heretofore unheard of in the history of the school" and was a substantial increase over the previous year's total.
• The football program was turned over to Sam "Monk" Zelden, "former Loyola standout" who had passed his bar exams to become a lawyer. The Cincinnati native was expected to implement Wolfpack Coach Clark Shaughnessy's offensive system because of "its adaptability to high school students and its simplicity of formation." Monk had spent the 1933-4 school year at Aloysius teaching Commercial Law and helping with the football team.
• Zelden would be assisted by another former Loyola HB, Joe Tetlow. Brother Ralph, S.C., would again coach the "Third Team" for boys of whatever grade who weighed 115 or less.

• Q1: Three minutes into the contest, George Brabner, "a lanky 142-pound G, crashed through and blocked Noullet's punt, the ball bounding out of the EZ for a safety." Soon after, the Yellow Jackets moved smartly to a TD. William Leon and "great QB" "Wop" Marhee, 155-pounder, carried the ball to the 1' line from where Ankerson crashed over RG. Sophomore Richard Petre blocked the placement.
• Q4: Held in check on the ground, Liska opened the attack, completing five passes to Noullet. From the 4, the same combination put the visitors on the scoreboard. The place kick missed. (The two-point conversion would not enter football for over 20 years.) Late in the game, the Panthers drove to the 4. "Umpire Frankie Bogue ruled Marhee intercepted a pass on the 1' line and stemmed the threat with a minute to play."

• Q1: The teams battled evenly until late in the period when the Stenogs got a break and took advantage of it. Taking the ball on their own 20 after an exchange of punts, the Panthers couldn't move and were forced to kick. Mestayer fumbled the bad snap and recovered on the 19. It took only three plays for Commy to score. QB Pat Brennan got 6 at LG and 5 more at LT. He then sliced off T to pay dirt and also booted the point.
• Q2: Midway through, Commy, starting from its own 49, made four firsts to put the ball on the 6. Several nice runs by Jules Pescay and a beautiful pass from Pete Calagno to Erdman highlighted the drive. The Panther forward wall repulsed two rushes. On third down, Brennan's pass was incomplete. Then he threw a fourth down aerial to Ed Hoffman for the TD. Sophomore T David Ellis blocked Brennan's kick to keep the score at 13-0. SA finished the half without a first down.
• Q3: Zelden's boys came out fighting mad and scored in less than a minute. Sophomore QB Edmund Gruber took the kickoff back to the 37. After gaining 4 at LT, Liska broke through the line on the next play and dashed 59y to glory. Al threw to Mestayer for the extra point.
• Q4: The teams slugged it out around the midfield mark with neither mounting a threat. The Panthers held Commy to only two first downs in the second half.

• Q1: Sophomore QB Edmund Gruber fumbled the opening kickoff, and Bonura recovered for SSC on the 40. Runs by Cripps, Quinn and Stakelum brought the ball to the 4, where Garriga drove through C for the score. Garriga's kick was blocked by Petre, the second time in the young season the Panther G did so and the third straight game SA blocked a PAT. (A cynic would say they got a lot of practice defending PATs.) It didn't take long for the home team to retaliate. Liska took the kickoff on the 19 and rambled 81y for a TD. He "was hit twice but managed to continue on, dodging three tacklers to cross the goal line standing up." Al's pass for the go-ahead point was knocked down.
• Q2: The visitors took the lead for good midway through the period. After an exchange of punts, the Rock-a-Chaws enjoyed favorable field position at the Panther 30. After a Garriga pass to Heath netted 7, Quinn broke loose around LE to the 3. Stakelum plunged up the middle to the 1 before Gonzales went over G for the TD. A bad pass from C prevented the try for the EP.
• Q3: Early in the quarter, Stakelum returned Mestayer's punt 38y to the EZ, but the play was called back for clipping on the 6. "A hot argument between [SSC] Coach 'Wop' Glover and the referee held up the game for about five minutes." When play resumed, the ball was placed on the 15. Garriga and Quinn picked up a total of 5y before a Garriga-Fink pass gained 8 to the 2. Garriga finished off the drive over C. After the first try for the EP was missed, SA was penalized for offside. So Garriga hit RT to make it 19-6.
• Q4: "The last Stanislaus TD came about due to poor quarterbacking by the Panthers. With four minutes to play and the ball on their own 25y line, the Panthers got only four yards on three tries. On last down, the QB elected to pass instead of kicking and the pass was incomplete, the ball going over to Stanislaus on the 29." Quinn got 5 over C, then Garriga broke loose at RT and, behind nice blocking, raced to the EZ.

Aside from Liska's kickoff return, the Panthers never got closer than the Rocks' 38. Roussel, Jaubert, and Mestayer were cited as best lineman for Aloysius.

Whether motivated by this article or not, "an inspired bunch of fighting St. Aloysius Panthers held the Jesuit Blue Jays to a slim two-point margin of victory Saturday night at Loyola Stadium before a fair-sized crowd ... 'Monk' Zelden evidently had his team pointed for the Jays for from the start it could be seen that the game would be nip-and-tuck all the way as the Panthers were playing the game of their lives."

• Q1: SA had an excellent chance to dent the scoreboard in the scoreless opening stanza but failed to take advantage. The Panthers punted after receiving the opening kickoff. On the first play from scrimmage from the Jay 18, Ott Schulte fumbled and senior T Nicholas Nutter, a recruit from the "B" team who was not even listed on the preseason varsity roster, pounced on the pigskin at the 19. But Liska failed to gain on two rushes, then threw two incompletions to turn the ball back to Jesuit, which punted out of danger. Just before the period ended, the Saints took the ball inside their 10 after a punt. Ed Noullet gained 12 through C, and Liska and Al Noullet picked up 14 more on two end runs to move the ball to the Panther 33. Ed's participation was courageous. He played with a "taped-up leg swollen to twice its normal size" (according to The Aloysian). "After being kicked on the same leg, he was carried off the field in a dead faint but showed the kind of stuff of which he is made by coming back into the game in the last quarter."
• Q2: On the first play, "Liska broke through RT, cut back to the left, shook off two tacklers and outdistanced the safety for 57 yards and the first score of the game." This was the third straight game Al ripped off a TD run of 57y or more. Freshman Jimmy Thibaut's kick hit the cross bar, the first of two crucial PAT failures. One can imagine the Blue Jays thinking, "This isn't what we bargained for." Awakened, the Jay O took the ball on its own 45. QB George Antonini hit LT for 15, and Eddie Bordes got 14 at LG to the SA 26. Krebs lost 3 at LE before Antonini threw to Bordes for 7. On the next play, Antonini "shot a beautiful pass" to L. G. Friedrichs on the 15. The Jay captain ran the rest of the way to tie the score. Dave Loker's "perfect placement" put Jesuit in the lead, 7-6.
• Q3: "Before the third period was three minutes old, Aloysius scored a TD which happened so quickly that the fans hardly knew what had happened." After the kickoff went into the EZ, "Al Noullet, on a beautifully executed end-around-end play, got in the clear and with the aid of some pretty blocking by his teammates continued on for 80y and the score. The Panther blockers cut down three of the four Jesuit backfield men and the fourth was out of the play on the other side of the field. This play proved to be 'Monk' Zelden's ace in the hole which almost won the game for him. It was a perfectly executed play, with every man carrying out his assigned duty." Another failed PAT kept the score at 12-7. Who would have thought that the winless Panthers would be leading the undefeated Blue Jays in the second half? "The Panthers fought their hearts out to keep this lead, stopping the Jays on their own 26-yard line after Jesuit had driven down the field, making four first downs. A beautifully placed kick by little Billy Ford, which rolled out of bounds on the nine-yard line, put the Panthers in a bad hole."
• Q4: Thibaut gained 2 at C, but a bad snap was recovered by Liska for a loss of 5 to the 6. Then came the fateful play that denied the plucky Panthers the Upset of the Year. Mestayer dropped back to punt, but Bill Rooney, "big Jesuit T," broke through and blocked the kick. E Vernon Loisel fell on the ball in the EZ. Loker place kicked the PAT. (drop kicks seem to have disappeared by 1934.) The Panthers stopped Jesuit the rest of the way but were unable to mount a threat of their own. For the second straight year, SA held mighty Jesuit to 14 points but failed to win.

"Lefty" Haynes' Eagle varsity had just defeated Fortier 6-0 in a rare Monday night game.

• In addition to the four-day turnaround, they would be without their star back Jimmy "Greek" Cajoleas. Still, the pregame write-up said Easton "figures to trounce the Panthers who are at the bottom in the standings." No team had "trounced" Zelden's squad yet, and the Eagles wouldn't either.
• The game, which had been moved up from 3:30 to 3 pm, began after a mixup involving the officials. Bill Daly arrived dressed to officiate only to be informed that Sam Morgan was scheduled to work with Johnny Ouliber and E. S. Kalin. So Daly went to the dressing room and changed out of his uniform. However, Morgan failed to appear by 3; so Daly was called out of the stands and umpired in civilian clothes. Morgan arrived at 3:30, but no change was made.

• Q1: HC took the kickoff and made four first downs in a row to the 8, but the Panthers held. But SA couldn't do anything and punted to their own 44. This time, the Tigers were not to be denied. Booth circled LE behind fine interference for 23y to the 20. Bernie Boesch, Charles "Schnozzle" D'Antonio, and Booth hit the line for a first-and-goal at the 8. From there, Booth broke off RT into the EZ. Barrett's PAT kick went wide.
• Q2: Early in the period, Booth got loose again, sailing 31y to the 19. D'Antonio, Booth, and Robert Dalier cracked the line to the 4. Booth again did the honors off RT for the tally. This time, his place kick hit the goal post to keep the score 12-0. On the ensuing kickoff, Liska tried a lateral that went awry, putting the Panthers in a hole at their own 6. So Mestayer punted right away, and Warren Brunner ran it back 10y to the 26. Sid Cellos, Booth, and Dalier moved the pigskin to the 8. Once again it was Booth who scored, through LT this time. His kicking woes continued as the PAT try sailed wide. At this point, the Crossmen led in first downs 10-0. But a little later, the underdogs finally caught a break when Mestayer recovered Brunner's fumble at the HC 31. Liska rewarded Mestayer with a pass for 10. Then, on fourth-and-one, Liska connected with Al Noullet for 19 to the 1. Liska was stopped cold at LG and then again at RG. Before SA could run another play, the whistle blew to end the half.
• Q3: The Tigers started the second half with a trick play. Brunner handed the ball to D'Antonio who flipped the spheroid to Boesch who "let fly a perfect pass" to Paul Beach who caught it just before being downed on the 10. On the first play, D'Antonio "circled LE and cut back to go over the goal line untouched." "Then the Panthers reared up and struck back." Thibaut took Booth's kickoff on the 10 and threw a lateral to Liska, who ran all the way to the HC 42. Two plays sent SA backwards 18y before Liska passed to Mestayer for 20. Going for it on fourth down, the Panthers missed on a pass but got a break when Holy Cross was penalized to the 28 to provide a new set of downs. On the next fourth down, Liska fired a 13y pass to Al Noullet to the 15. Liska "hurled himself over the center of the line three times for a first down one foot away from a tally." From there, he ploughed through RG to keep his record intact of scoring a TD in every game of the season.
• Q4: Aloysius drove 71y for the last TD of the game. A 43y run by  who else? Liska was the big play, and "a perfect pass and a perfect catch from Liska to Mestayer was good for 16 yards" and the TD. There would be no more scoring, but "Aloysius still had a few passes left in its system and with just a few minutes left to play, completed three in a row to bring the ball to HC's 26y line" before Brunner intercepted on the 14. Within a minute, the game ended.

• First half: Liska intercepted a pass on his own goal line and was run out of bounds by Harris on the SA 25. That started a drive that resulted in the visitors' only score. A pass (presumably from Liska) to Mestayer for 25 and another to E. Noullet for 10 moved the ball deep into Maroon territory. Then Liska hit Lionel Boulmay who ran into the EZ for his first TD of the season. Another toss to Noullet put the seventh point on the board. The lead held up through halftime.
• Q3: Picayune took the opening kickoff and drove for the tying TD from its own 35. A pass to Henley put the ball on the SA 18. The healthy Miller brother ran four times, the last going over for the score. 120-lb HB Tom Pearson ran around E for the tying point.
• Q4: The game remained tied until late in the final period. Preacher Williams intercepted a pass on Picayune's 20. Harris and Miller carried the ball on a series of off-tackle and spinner plays to the SA 25. Penalties moved the ball to the 1. [Hometown officiating?] It took two tries, but Harris plunged over. Miller made the PAT around E.