• Q1: The Eagles caught the Saints napping with a 45y quick kick by Chester Lemoine in the opening minutes. But later, the same play backfired when Paul St. Germain blocked the kick, and Milt Peterson or Steve Murphy (depending on the account) recovered on the Eagle 32. On the very first play, Oddo rambled around RE to pay dirt. Balser converted with 7:33 on the end zone clock. Before the quarter ended, Aloy­sius had the ball deep in enemy territory again after Pequet fumbled as he was hit, and Jeffrey Houin recovered.
• Q2: Burns' QB sneak made it first and ten on the 14. Verriere gained 5y in two thrusts, but Giambelluca fumbled and recovered for a loss of 1. Daryl Cavalier broke through and smeared Burns for a 7y loss to give possession back to Easton. Rickey Wharton, gaining 13 on a reverse, and John Abry, with 17 on a double re­verse, earned the Old Gold and Purple's only two first downs of the half. But the drive ran out of steam, and Lemoine punted out on the SA 6. Callihan's punt a few plays later traveled only 25y to the 32. On second down, Pequet took to the air, but Cronin intercepted, returning it to the 35. Aloysius ran out the clock to take a 7-0 lead into the dressing room.
• Q3: The Eagles achieved their deepest penetration of the evening when they reached the SA 27.
• Q4: Early in the period, St. Germain recovered his second Eagle bobble, this one by Wharton, to give SA life at the Easton 31. But the offense went nowhere and Callihan, trying to hit the coffin corner, shanked the punt for -1y. A few plays later, Easton fum­bled yet again, Johnny on the Spot St. Germain covering it at the 29. This time, the Knights took advantage, driving to the 1 behind Verriere's off-tackle slants. "Burn 'em up" Burns squirmed over up the middle as the game ended.

• Q1: Hagstette scored two TDs in the period. The first came on a 75y punt return. On the ensuing kickoff, John Steadman fumbled, Aloysius recovering at the 22. Oddo then romped to the 3, and on the next play Hagstette drove over. On the final play of the period, Callihan's punt from the SA 48 hit the safety man and bounded to the 2, where Callihan himself recovered.
• Q2: Verriere plunged over on the first play. SA moved 46y for their fourth TD, overcoming yardage lost on penal­ties. Burns hit Blanchard with a 15y completion to the 37. Oddo covered the remaining distance in one gulp around RE through the entire Tarpon team. The final TD culminated a 61y drive, Cronin scoring on a 21y pass from Donald Delatte.
• Q3: The Tarps finally moved into Aloysius territory when a poor Callihan punt gave them the ball at the 37. Two plays gained 10 for one of the two Fortier first downs on the evening, but the Crusaders rose up and pushed the Tarpons back, forcing a punt from the 36.
• Q4: Dan Conlin (future Brother Martin assistant coach) recovered a Crusader punt at the SA 37. From there, Fortier drove to the 8 but lost the ball on downs at the 9. Aloysius then marched 91y for the only tally of the half, De­latte doing the honors from the 1.

• The Lumberjacks entered the fray with a 1-1 record. They defeated Hammond but lost to McComb under new coach Lewis Murray.
• The Jacks sported eight returning starters on offense, including QB Dick Cothern and HB James "Buddy" Farr.
• The line packed plenty of beef, including Dit Talley (225), Henry Powell (230), and Vic Haik (240).
• The Crusaders had beaten Bogalusa four straight years, including a 33-7 shellacking in 1959 that had undoubtedly contributed to the hiring of a new coach in the Paper Mill town.

• Q1: After an exchange of punts to start the game, the Crusa­ders traveled 56y to break the ice. Oddo was the workhorse, carrying on seven of eleven plays. Verriere toted the pigskin the other four times. With the ball on the 16, Oddo went up the mid­dle, cut to the left, shook off three defenders, and sped into the EZ. Balser's PAT made it 7-0. The next time the Knights got the ball, they set sail for the goal line again, driving 26y to the 20 before being stopped.
• Q2: The home team gained only 41y the entire half. However, the Crusaders couldn't add to their lead.
• Q3: Aloysius pushed down the field on their opening possession, covering 60y in seven plays. Oddo and Burns car­ried to the Bogalusa 33. Then Harry Stumpf took the ball on a double reverse around LE and outran the secondary to the promised land. Down 14, Cothern engineered the first Lumber­jack penetration into SA territory to put his team back into con­tention. After Farr returned the kickoff to his 26, Dick completed four passes - 29y to Donald Tynes, 7 and 1y to Dickey Rogers, and 9y to Tom Powell on a tackle-eligible play on 4th and 6 at the SA 14. FB Nathan Bush rammed into the EZ from the 1. Cothren rolled out for the EP.
• Q4: The Crusaders had their hands full throughout the final 12 minutes trying to keep a lid on the Jacks' passing game, espe­cially since the offense failed to mount another sustained drive. Early on, SA muffed a fine opportunity handed them by a fumble recovery at the enemy 26. They could gain only 9y on three plays, and Balser's FG attempt fell short. Cothren then started passing down the field until Thriffiley intercepted. But the off­ense couldn't move and punted back to Cothren & Company at the 16. This time, the Jacks moved to the SA 37, thanks mainly to 12 and 18y completions to Normand Richardson and a 17-yarder to Rogers. This time, with the home crowd on their feet urging on their heroes, Hagstette rose to the occasion and picked off an aerial. That allowed the Crusaders to run out the clock and escape The Magic City with a hard-earned victory.

A capacity crowd of 6,000, including eight busloads of Aloysius fans, saw a defensive battle that the Crusaders pulled out with a Q4 TD.

• Q1: The game started badly for the visitors with a fumbled kickoff, Terrebonne recovering at the SA 38. The home team drove to the 3, where Doug Maier lost the ball on a fumble. The Crusaders moved to the Tiger 46 in ten plays before having to punt. Three plays later, Aloysius recovered another fumble, this one in prime real estate 13y from the goal. But they were unable to take ad­vantage.
• Q2: After Terrebonne punted out, Aloysius marched to the 7, thanks mostly to a 22y pass from Burns to Oddo. But again the Knights ran out of downs. Two plays later, QB Herb Alexander connected with Baron Whipple for a 27y gain to midfield. On the next snap, HB Russ Pierce put on a juggling act on a pass from Alexander, Weber grabbing the ball at the SA 43. The comedy of errors continued as the Tigers recovered a fumble only to have Cronin intercept another pass to take the ball back at the 24. As time ran out, Balser attempted a FG from the 27, but Pierce blocked it.
• Q3: The teams marched up and down the field until a Terrebonne gamble on fourth down at midfield failed.
• Q4: The Crusaders marched 50y in eight plays to push across the evening's only TD with 6:54 left. The score was set up by a 34y pass from Burns to Oddo to the 4. After two Randy smashes gained but 2, Burns sneaked over from the 1, and Balser booted the PAT. A late Tiger rally fell short when Hagstette intercepted at the 4, one of three passes the Crusaders snagged. Anthony ran it back to the 23 to allow Aloysius to leave enemy lair with a 7-point victory for the second week in a row.

Oddo earned the States-Item Back of the Week award.

John Giambelluca crossed the goal three times, and the Crim­son D held another foe scoreless.

• Q1: Delatte recovered a fumble midway through the peri­od on the WJ 29. Linden Hinyub coughed up the pigskin after receiving a punt on the 19. After three plays gained two first downs to the 8, Giambel­luca broke off RT for the TD. Balser started his perfect 4-of-4 evening on PATs.
• Q2: Bourgeois daringly tried a fourth down pass from his 26, but it fell incomplete. Oddo smashed for 5, then Giam­belluca sped 21y around RE to pay dirt with 6:40 left. Blanda, at half-speed with a groin injury, came in to try to spark the Buc offense, which finally moved past midfield when the Crusaders were assessed a 15y roughing the kicker penalty to their 46. Blanda and Hinyub each got a yard, but Bourgeois fumbled, and Gothard Reck recov­ered for Aloysius on the WJ 46. But the Crusaders fum­bled the ball right back. As time ran down, Lou fired a long pass that Cronin picked off on the SA 31 and re­turned 5y. Oddo picked up 6, and Burns lost 2. Then Ran­dy took a handoff, found a hole at LG, broke into the clear, and out­ran the secondary for a 60y scoring gallop with only seven seconds left.
• Q3: John raced 75y on a neatly executed fake handoff by Burns. The QB gave the pigskin to Hagstette, then pulled it back and put it into the arms of Giambelluca who tore around LE untouched to the EZ. West Jeff began to move the ball in the last two periods.
• Q4: Douglass gave his reserves an opportunity to gain game experience. WJ threatened to score in the final min­utes when Blanda's aerials worked the ball to the SA 24. But Thriffiley intercepted on the 6 and returned to the 9 as the clock ran out.

Giambelluca and Oddo accounted for 212 of the Crusaders' 235y on the ground.

Douglass on his QB: Bobby probably isn't as good a passer as some other QBs we've had. But his passing will hurt you - like it did against West Jeff - and his ball-handling and running ability are certainly there.

Asked if he contemplated changes in his defense after WJ gained 156y through the air, Andy replied: Pass defense ... we're not going to do a thing about it. We'll let you have the short stuff ... that's the way our defense is set up. We can't do everything. If we don't rush our LBs, they can break through on the ground because we don't have enough movement up front. However, we rush all eight men and leave three back in safety, forcing them to throw or we'll send in only six and make them run ... it all depends on the situation.

• The Blue Jays had lost only to Pensacola in Florida and were ranked #2 in both Louisiana polls.
• Ken Tarzetti counted heavily on his all-Southern TB/QB Pat Screen, who operated behind a big offensive line led by C Larry Ecuyer, brother of Al, the former Notre Dame All-Ameri­can, and T Rene Viosca.
• Jesuit fielded a senior-heavy team, with 19 in all. Tarzetti said his star was healthy. Screen has fully recovered from his ankle injury. We'll be in pretty good physical shape ... only one boy - E Bob Samsot - is definitely out.
• Douglass: Except for Muhoberac, we're ready. We've been work­ing our defense against Jesuit's single wing all week and I believe our boys can stop 'em if they want to badly enough. It takes a lot of defensive desire to hold a team with an offense like Jesuit's.
• N. Charles Wicker wrote in his column the day of the game: If high school football has any of the appeal it once enjoyed in the Crescent City, Sunday afternoon at City Park Stadium we should see the season's largest crowd and one of the best, if not the lar­gest crowd, in the history of the series between the Jesuit Blue Jays and the St. Aloysius Crusaders.
• The fans responded to the tune of an estimated 19,000, the largest crowd to attend a prep game in many years. Unfortu­nately, those on the Crimson side didn't enjoy the contest at all.

No one would have believed that an Aloysius defense that had surrendered only 7 points in six games would be torched for 418y.

• Q1: The Saints received the kickoff but failed to make a first down by a foot and punted. The Blue Jays promptly march­ed 74y in seven plays. Screen gained 10 on three runs, then tossed a pass to HB Charley Lancaster to midfield three plays later. Next, Screen hit E Kenny Vairin at the 30, and he outraced three defenders to the EZ. Pat booted the EP.
• Q2: Early on, the Crusaders made their only pen­etration into Jay territory in the half, reaching the 44. But two running plays that lost 6 and a Burns incompletion forced a punt. Callihan booted out of bounds on the 21. Jesuit mounted another seven-play drive. On the second play, Screen blasted off LT for 48y to the SA 30. Shortly afterward, he hit E Julius Miller with a 10y pass to the 16. Pat raced around LE for 15. FB Walt McCoy plunged over RG to bulge the lead to 14-0 after another Screen PAT. Trying to score before halftime, Burns misfired on two pass­es and when he did connect with Oddo, the play lost 6. On fourth down at the SA 36, Callihan tried a pass from punt formation, but the ball fell incomplete. That gave the Jays the opportunity to add to their margin. Screen hit McCoy with an 8y pass to the 28 and two plays later, Screen faded to pass and, not finding a receiver, threaded his way from the left side to the right, got away from several pur­suers, and wound up in the EZ to make it 20-0 on the last play of the half.
• Q3: Aloysius tried an onside kick, but Jesuit recovered on its 38. Two plays later, Screen burst off RT 55y to the EZ. The Jays lost no time in adding another tally as reserve QB Frank Faulstich picked off a Burns pass on the SA 37, returning it 7y. Screen again found a sweet spot at RT and raced 25y to paydirt. He also booted the PAT to make it 33-0.
• Q4: Jesuit scored again, but a penalty wiped out the tally. The Saints avoided a whitewash against the Jay re­serves with 2:19 left when Burns threw 33y to Hagstette, who tumbled into the EZ with a defender hanging on. The score was made possible by G Dave Cummis­key's INT of Keith Hecker's pass on the SA 40. Giambel­luca picked up 10, then two plays later, gained 3 for ano­ther first down at the 33. The Jays took the kickoff and were marching again as time ran out. QB Don Adams picked up a first down at the SA 32 on an 18y run. Then Faulstich con­nected with Jim Lauga for 16 as the game ended.

The Crusaders dropped to #6 in the UPI poll and #8 in the AP.

The Crusader offense scored two TDs in Q1, then turned the game over the defense, which held the lead thanks to a missed EP.

• Q1: The Saints forced the Tigers to punt on their first pos­session, but Max Brousseau's boot traveled only 10y to the HC 36. Oddo stumbled his way 20y on the first play. Two more runs put the pigskin on the 1, and Burns took it in from there with 7:40 on the clock. The Crossmen received a break later in the period when Stumpf fumbled, and Edward La Graize recovered at the SA 20. But Gawain Dibetta gave it right back, St. Germain falling on the bobble at the 18. On the first play, lightning struck the Tigers. Oddo roared 82y for the TD. Balser's crucial second PAT made it 14-0 with 1:02 left. Randy showed no effects of the illness that struck him late in the week.
• Q2: Cronin fumbled a punt, and La Graize again captured the loose ball at the 18 to set up HC's first TD. Cortez imme­diately ripped off 14. An offside penalty on Aloysius moved the ball to the 2. Brousseau got half that distance, then Cor­tez went over. Frank Venegas's EP try was short and wide. With the two-point conversion not yet allowed in high school ball, the miscue would prove crucial, leaving the score 14-6 at the 2:30 mark.
• Q3: The teams traded possessions, neither penetrating the opponent's 40.
• Q4: The ball seesawed back and forth until, with two and a half minutes left, Callihan punted to the Tiger 9 where Di­betta was smeared. However, Aloysius was guilty of piling on, moving the ball out to the 24. The Crimson D threw the ball carrier for a 4y loss on first down before Brousseau hit Bob Venegas with a pass all the way to the SA 37. Brous­seau gained 7, then shot a 25y aerial to Nunez to the 5. The same combination produced the TD on the next play. Vene­gas's kick split the uprights this time with 1:19 left. Aloysius snagged the onside kick and ran out the clock.

Nuss: They never did drive on us until the end. Our defense played well ... but not any better than we played against Redemptorist and a couple of other teams.