East Jefferson started strong but faded quickly.

• Q1: The Crusaders took the opening kickoff and moved to the EJ 35 before being stopped. The Warriors then drove for a TD on their first possession. Roy Brazil electrified the crowd with a beautiful 46y run to the 16. Charles Meyers picked up 8, then passed to Bryan Dupepe for the TD. SA came back quickly, driving 75y to pay dirt. Two Clark com­pletions, a 14-yarder to Bartholomew and another for 38 to Ronald Vinet, propelled the Red and White to the tying TD, which Clark made from 1y out. Sims Couvillon missed the PAT to keep the game tied.
• Q2: Aloysius marched 54y to take the lead for good. Runs of 14 and 17 by Clark and Mineo highlighted the attack. Mineo did the honors from the 1, and Sims added the placement this time.
• Q3: Charles Lumbley's INT of Meyers' pass started the ball rolling from the EJ 46. Mineo tallied his second 6 of the day from the 1.
• Q4: Clark wrapped up the scoring with a short plunge to climax a 45y drive. Couvillon booted his third straight EP. The comfortable margin afforded Douglass a chance to clear his bench.

• Q1: As the period neared a close, Roy Picou made the play of the game. The big E crashed through and blocked David Ward's punt, which rolled out of the EZ for a safety. The ensuing free kick from the 20 set up the Crusaders in good field position at their 42.
• Q2: Bartholomew took the ball on a beautifully executed double fake by Clark and raced 46y down the right sideline for the game's only TD. That ended a drive that lasted only 58 seconds. In those days before the two-point con­version, the 8-0 lead gave Aloysius a "two-score" advan­tage. But the Cavs got a break late in the quarter when they recovered a fumbled punt on the SA 38. They scored on the last play of the half only to have it negated by an illegal procedure penalty. DLS could do nothing on the extra play.
• Second half: The Cavs got another break when Joe Gros recovered a bobble at the SA 22. But the stubborn Crimson D stopped them. The Knights struggled on offense, ending the evening with only three first downs.

• Q1: Jesuit had the first scoring opportunity. After the Crusaders received the kickoff, Don Pettavino intercepted Clark's pass at the SA 34 and returned it 7y. But the defense stood strong and forced a punt, Ladner booting out of bounds on the 17.
• Q2: The Crimson moved 80y to break the scoring ice. Mineo, moved from HB to FB because of Meyers' injury, scored the first of his two TDs, bulldozing over from the 3. Couvillon split the uprights to make it 7-0. Mineo also got off a beautiful 52y quick kick during the fray. The Blue Jays got another turnover, a fum­ble on the SA 23. But on the very first play, they turned it back with a bobble of their own that Bob Worringen captured, one of two recoveries for him for the afternoon.
• Q3: The Crusader D continued to shut down the Jays, holding them to 41y and just 102y of total offense. Jesuit never mounted a drive of any length into SA territory.
• Q4: A 60y drive that climaxed in Mineo's TD from the 1 finally salted the victory away. (The Aloysian credits the TD to Bartholomew.)

Another largest crowd for the season, 10,000, watched the Crusaders and Rams settle nothing, thanks in large measure to three SA fumbles.

• Q1: Aloysius got a break on the opening kickoff, which hit a Ram and bounced back, allowing a Crusader to recover at midfield. On the first play, SA drew the defense offside by shifting from the T to the single wing. Bartholomew gained 4, then 6 for a first down at the 35. Bourgeois raced around LE untouched behind great blocking to the EZ. Couvillon tacked on the PAT, which proved crucial.
• Q2: The Crusaders downed Red Donegan's punt at the 1. From there, the Rams managed to tie the game thanks to not one but two fumbled punts, both of which were recovered by Terry Mo­ran. His first recovery came at the Redemptorist 40. After three plays gained only 5y, Lester Mitts kicked to Bartholomew, who fumbled as he was hit at the 13. Three plays later, Leaber scored from the 1. Don Mathews' perfect placement knotted the score at 7.
• Second half: Neither team neared the other's goal.

With a 3-0-1 league record and no more Catholic games remaining, SA clinched at least a tie for the championship. They could only hope that Holy Cross would tie or defeat the Rams in two weeks.

The Crusaders stayed #9 in the state poll. However, after enjoying an off week, they fell to tenth.

• Q1: SA broke through near the end of the period, driving 62y. Clark sneaked over from the 1. A 30y run by Meyers and a 15y Clark-to-Meyers pass gained most of the yardage. But the Tigers took the ensuing kickoff and set off on a 68y scoring march of their own.
• Q2: On the twelfth play of the drive, Pennison toted the pigskin over from the 11, then added the EP to give the home team a 7-6 lead. (The Morning Advocate gave the TD to Loy Smith.) Aloysius did everything but take the lead at the end of the half, reaching the one-inch line when the horn stopped them. Doug­lass argued with officials that his boys had scored.
• Q3: Terrebonne took the kickoff and moved upfield on a beauti­ful pass before having to punt from their 35. That's when Aloy­sius drove 64y for the go-ahead score. A 28y sprint by Mineo keyed the march, which Bartholomew ended with a 2y TD run. Couvillon converted to make it 13-7.
• Q4: Two beautiful runs by Vinet and Meyers put SA in business at the 15. But, after the Knights got nowhere on three tries, Couvillon tried his first FG of the season. However, the ball passed just under the cross bar. The Tigers moved quickly to their 48 before having to punt. Champagne booted a 51-yarder to the 1. Needing to at least move out far enough to kick out of danger, Clark & Company did more than that, eating up the rest of the time. It was Seeber's turn to berate the officials at the end of the game, claiming his team had made a first down on a RE run in the final period, but that the yardsticks had been moved.

Wicker praised LB Butler Powell and DB Bourgeois for their defensive efforts. Also, The Aloysian reported that Raymond consi­dered the contest his best of the year.

Dividing its scoring evenly among four players, Aloysius won each quarter 6-0.

• Q1: Charles Lumbley gathered in a punt and returned it to the Reb 35. Two plays later, Clark faked a pitchout on the option play and rambled in from the 24.
• Q2: Another good punt return by Lumbley midway through put the ball on the Nicholls 33. Two good gains by Meyers and Bartholomew brought the pigskin to the 1 from where Meyers dove over tackle for the TD. Led by Pete Robin and Paul Di Gio­vanni, the Rebels reached the SA 21 before Donegan picked off a pass. Nicholls would get no closer to the goal the rest of the night.
• Q3: Powell joined the INT club, picking off a Sid Andrews aerial on the Reb 30 and racing down the left sideline for the Knights' third TD.
• Q4: The final tally came with six minutes remaining. Peter Pat­terson set up the score by recovering a fumble on the Nicholls 34. James Lee and Curtis Summerlin carried the spheroid to the 1. QB Tom Schwaner called his own number and bucked over.

• Q1: Bartholomew was the first to light up the scoreboard as he took off around RE for 25y to pay dirt. The conversion fell short. The Crusaders recovered several of their own fumbles on the march. A Tarpon bobble set up SA in good position to add to their lead. Meyers went all the way from the 25 via LE, but a penalty negated the tally.
• Q2: Carrying over the drive to the new period, Meyers scored again from the 4, and this time it stood. Mineo slipped through the center of the line for the EP. Meyers struck again later in the quar­ter as he plowed 11y with three minutes left. Mineo kicked the 20th point. Fortier butter-fingered the pigskin again, and SA claimed it on the 21. With time running out, Sims booted a FG from the 8.
• Q3: Clark went to the races, breaking away for a 65y TD gallop. Ed Schellhaas scored his first points of the year from the 8 later in the period. Mineo kicked both EPs. Fortier's deepest penetration came when they reached the 12, but Donegan, "a fine broth of a lad," snagged another INT.
• Q4: Bourgeois ran 28y for one TD in the period, then Donegan went 24y with an INT for the other.

The victory, their eighth, gave the '55 Crusaders the record for most wins in a season in school history.

• Q1: The Crusaders needed a strong start but didn't get it. Bartholomew fumbled on the first play from scrimmage after A. J. Millet kicked off into the EZ, John Templet recov­ering on the 19. Cannon crashed RG for 4, and Templet swept for 3. With the defense primed to stop "The Cannon­ball Express," QB Fairchild, whose adept ball-handling ri­valed Clark's, faked a handoff to Billy, hid the ball on his hip, and loped untouched around LE as the defense smoth­ered the FB. Cannon kicked the PAT to make it 7-0 with only 1:58 gone. On the first play after the kickoff, Clark ran the option through RT for 26y to the Istrouma 41 before Can­non made a TD-saving tackle. Two running plays lost 4, and a pass fell incomplete. So Schwaner punted out on the 21. Guidry carried around LE for 2. On the next snap, he pow­ered off tackle, pushed four Crusaders out of his way, cut to the sidelines, escaped Donegan's futile dive at the SA 40, and easily outraced Couvillon to complete the 77y TD. Cannon's EP made it 14-0 with 6:39 still left in the period. Facing a possible rout, Aloysius fought back. They moved to two first downs from the 20 to the 43. But T Roy Winston (future Tiger and Minnesota Viking) dumped Meyers for a 2y loss. Clark tried a pass to Bourgeois that fell incom­plete. Ty tried again, but Cannon plucked it out of the air at the 25 and returned it to the SA 44 where he attempted to dive over a host of Crusaders but was spilled hard and fumbled. Winston saved the day for Istrouma by falling on the ball. With a chance to drive for another TD and take all the wind out of the visitors' sails, Cannon never got control of the handoff, and Couvillon covered the loose pigskin at the SA 46. Given some life, the Knights drove for a TD. Bartholomew gained 4 around RE before Clark faked a handoff and tossed 32y to Eddie Ryan to the 18 where the last defender, Fairchild, made the tackle. Meyers got 3 through the line. An offside penalty set the Crusaders back. Then Clark missed on a "spot pass" before the teams changed ends.
• Q2: On the first play, Clark flipped a pass to Bartholomew who got the jump on Cannon and Fairchild at the 10 and stepped into the EZ. Couvillon's PAT cut the Istrouma lead in half. Neither team did much with the ball until late in the period when Donegan snared a Fairchild pass on the Istrouma 31. It was Red's fourth INT in the last four games. Mineo got 6 and Meyers 4 for a first down. Clark gained 3 before Norbert Roy and Duane Leopard held Bourgeois (Duane's fellow Chinese Bandit of the future) to no gain. On third down, Ty ripped off 8 to the 10 for the first down. Then Winston stopped Mineo for a yard loss, and Millet broke through to throw Meyers for -4. Clark blooped a pass to Ryan who made a leaping catch in the midst of multiple Indians at the 5. On fourth down, Clark tried RE but was hit by Billy Bueto at the 1 before Leopard and Cannon helped keep him out of the EZ. On the first play, Billy made Istrouma hearts flutter when he fumbled, but Leopard recovered on the 1. Then Billy got 8 in two plays to force a punt on 4th-and-1. But instead of kicking, he raced around RE all the way to the 35 before being run out of bounds. However, illegal procedure brought the ball back to the 4. This time, Cannon punted out, and there was no return. On the second play, Clark fumbled, and Pete Gremillion recovered on the 45. Guidry missed a first down by inches on the first snap, but Cannon removed all doubt with a 19y scamper around E to the 26 before Howard Bode stopped him. Guidry and Cannon drove to the 18, but on the third down play Fairchild and Bode started fighting, and the Indian QB was ejected but no penalty was enforced. Cannon got 3 to the 15 for the first down, but on the next play backup QB Sonny Hill fumbled, and Ronald Hand recovered for the Crusaders on the 13. Now it was Butler Powell's turn to be tossed for fighting. The Crusaders were penalized to the 1. Fortu­nately, the half ended after one more play. An oddity of the first half statistics was that Istrouma had only two first downs to six for the Crusaders but led 14-7 thanks to a short drive after a turnover and Guidry's 77y sprint.

• Q3: Istrouma made two first downs after taking the kickoff but finally had to punt with Aloysius putting the ball in play on their 28. A 5y penalty set them back, but Bartholomew ripped off 8 and Meyers added 2. But Gremillion and Roy trapped Clark for a 14y loss as he tried to pass. So Schwa­ner punted dead on the SA 40. Cannon got 4, and so did Guidry. Then Billy sped around RE for 21 to the 11 before Meyers ran him out of bounds. He might have gone the distance but for a flirtation dance with a wayward official. Many observers thought Istrouma had obviously been offsides on the play but the official threw the flag against Aloysius. Naturally, Istrouma refused it. Cannon carried around the other end for his first TD of the night. Hill, holding for the PAT, got a bad pass from center. He picked up the ball and flipped it toward Cannon, but the pigskin rolled out of reach and was covered by several Crusaders to keep the score at 20-7. Needing to regain some momentum, the Knights instead went three and out, the punt rolling dead on the Istrouma 36. Guidry moved for 10 as the period ended.
• Q4: Cannon and Guidry combined for another first down at the SA 44. On first down, George shook off two tacklers and broke loose. Lumbley made a diving attempt at the 20 but only staggered the runner, who kept his feet and chugged to pay dirt for his second score of the evening. Billy's kick was true to make it 27-7. James Lee returned the kickoff to the 20. Six plays later, the Crusaders found themselves facing 4th-and-25 from the 17. So Schwaner dropped back in punt formation but fumbled the snap, the ball rolling toward the EZ. Pete Gremillion recovered for Istrouma on the 3. It took only one play from there as Can­non hit off tackle. Despite being met by a horde of tacklers, he drove over the goal. His kick was wide left this time: 33-7 with four minutes remaining. The Tribe's second team forced a punt, which Mike Batchelder carried back 21y. With James Teague and Don Smith doing the running, Istrouma reached the 5 before Donegan snagged another INT in the EZ. Bartholomew ran one play from the 20 before the game ended.

The Indians held the Saints to -8y rushing in the second half after yielding 64 in the first 24 minutes.

• The Crusader D could boast that they held Cannon below his average, 105y on 17 carries for 6.2 per try. The visitors could also brag that they kept the game close enough to force Billy to play more than half a game as he had in the previous five runaways.
• Guidry picked up 173 on 12 attempts for a 14.4 average.