• Bill's brother John would coach the offensive backfield. He had lettered in four sports at Fortier and served as captain of the '55 football team. He received little All-American hon­ors as a QB at U.S.L. in 1958. John also played QB while in the Marine Corps from 1960-62.
• Carleton Sweeney, defensive secondary mentor, was also a four sport letterman while at Lake Charles High School, earning All-State honors in football after quarterbacking the Wildcats to the AAA state crown in 1954. He then lettered twice at Tulane before moving to McNeese State.

Three coaches returned from Andy Douglass's last staff.

• Jack Schommer
• Ted Foret ('55)
• Don Landry, who played for and coached with Bill Arms at Cathedral High School in Lafayette

• After a scoreless first half, EJ took the second half kickoff and broke into the scoring column when Billy Roberts capped a 58y drive with a 27y dash around LE. A pass interference call set up the play.
• Aloysius came right back and tied the game after David Kern re­covered QB Barry Raziano's fumble at the SA 44. Two plays later, Billy Dwyer scampered 41y through a host of Warriors to the 4. After a gain of 1, QB Hebert rolled to his left and, not finding an open receiver, scooted into the EZ. A bad snap from center on the extra point left the score 6-6.
• But the Tribe regained the lead for good just before Q3 ended. Starting on their 30 after the kickoff, Donald Bonewitz gained 6. Then Hudson broke off tackle, found himself in the clear, and raced 64y to pay dirt.
• EJ put the game away with just 0:15 left when Ronnie Hof, a pint-size 132 lb HB, picked off an errant Saint pass on the SA 30 and ran untouched into the EZ.
• Hudson topped all ball carriers with 91y with Roberts a close sec­ond with 73. Dwyer led Aloysius with 49y.

Once again, the Saints played a scoreless first half, then succumbed in the second. It's hard to win with a total offense of only 51y.

• After the Crusaders failed to move in their first series of the sec­ond half, they punted to the Gulfport 38. On the first snap, Carl Weihing took off on a jaunt around LE to break the scoring ice. Dickie Dunaway converted to make it 7-0.
• Later in the period, Mike Lawless capped a 37y drive with a 1y scoring buck. Dunaway converted again. The score was set up by Otts Loposser who picked off an Hebert aerial at the SA 47 and returned it to the 37.
• Late in the game, the Commodores drove to the SA 4, but the Crusaders held.
• Workhorse Weihing carried 16 times for 139y, over half of Gulf­port's 235 on the ground.

• Coach Lewis Murray fielded another competitive Lumber­jack contingent.
• After starting with a scoreless tie with out of state foe Picayune, Bogalusa had defeated AA Hammond 20-7.
• In the latter contest, junior Grant McElveen had shown signs of being a worthy successor to All-State QB Greg Honaker, who gave the Crusaders fits in '62.
• Aloysius had won seven of the nine games in the most recent series to even the all-time mark at seven wins apiece.

The Crusaders stunned the home crowd by running back the opening kickoff. But the rest of the game was all Lumberjacks.

• Q1: Bill Dwyer took the kick and cut down the sidelines 92y for the Crusaders' second TD of the young season. Eric Schroeder kicked the PAT. The Jacks ran the ensuing kickoff back to the 28. Ten plays later, Paul Calamari, "a small (160 lb) package of dynamite in the FB position," who ran the ball all but one of the snaps, crashed over from the 2. Larry Lassley's boot tied the score. McElveen's 17y pass to WB Terry Haley produced the biggest gain of the march. The Saints started to march but soon had to punt. However, a roughing the kicker penalty gave them a first down on the Bogalusa 33. But four plays gained only 8y. The home team quickly reentered SA territory on a 40y pass to David Davidson, who ran head-on into two tacklers and turned them both head over heels as he continued on his way.

• Q1: QB Eric Lottinger scored on a 1y plunge with 4:07 re­maining to climax a 63y drive. A 19y pass from Lottinger to E Donnie Garrison was the biggest gainer along the way.
• Q2: Fast-stepping Harson rambled 15y, and Larry Fife booted the EP. Later, Lottinger hit Garrison with a TD pass from the 14. The visitors ended the half with -24y in offense.
• Q3: Harson carried a host of tacklers with him as he plowed over the goal from 2y out. Fife added the point. Arnold White recovered a fumbled punt on the SA 1, then was given the privilege of scoring the TD. Chris Cenac split the uprights for the PAT.
• Q4: Sprueill cleared his bench, which enabled the Saints to finally record two first downs in the last five minutes of the scoreless final period. Aloysius reached the 6 when time ran out.

Bill Dwyer scored his third TD of the season, all of Aloysius's total, to avoid a shutout.

• After a scoreless first period, the Bucs got on the board midway through Q2 on FB Gary Orgeron's 5y run. The two big plays on the 77y drive were passes from Guillot to Rex White for 17 and Gary Schouest for 21.
• Dwyer broke loose on a 60y TD run to narrow the gap to 7-6.
• But WJ took the ensuing kickoff and marched to their second TD, Orgeron covering the final 9y.
• The Buccaneers add three more tallies in the second half. Terry Alario took a 29y pass from Guillot, Mike hit Leslie Linden with a 10y TD aerial, and Ronnie Ceruti returned an INT 32y to pay dirt.

Take away Dwyer's 70y run, and the Crusaders were left with 21y of offense.

• Q1: Dwyer struck again on SA's first possession, darting 67y on the first play from scrimmage. The Cavs tied the game later in the period when Mentel swept E from the 5. McCarthy, who didn't carry the ball as much as usual be­cause of a sore right shoulder, missed the PAT. He was shaken up several times and once had to be carried from the field. He has some kind of pulled shoulder muscle, but he'll play next week, said McHenry after the game.
• Q2: For the third time in the season, the Saints left the field tied at halftime.
• Q3: The Cavs drove to the 7 only to be denied by a lost fumble.
• Q4: Early on, DLS drove to the SA 20. McCarthy made a first down, but the play was cancelled by an illegal motion penalty. Then Richard Mart's pass fell incomplete to turn the ball over on downs. But soon after, the Crusaders gave the pigskin back with Mentel recovering on the 29 with 8:30 remaining. Adrian ran for 5, and Ted Aufdemorte added 4. McCarthy gained a first down at the 16 but had to leave the field again. Mentel carried to the 9 before Steve Juul took it to the 6. Mentel then slashed over with 5:31 left. Bad shoulder or not, McCarthy threw a good block at the line of scrimmage while Lou Cefolia and Jim McKay provided interference in the secondary. The Knights didn't give up and had the ball on the DLS 45 with enough time to try two long desperation passes. Hebert's second throw, released just before he got flattened, slipped through Eric Houin's hands at the DLS 7. Eric was falling as he lunged for the ball and wouldn't have scored even if he had held on.

For the first time all season, Aloysius gained more yards rushing than the opponent and won the first down battle. The result was Bill Arms' first victory at his alma mater.

• Q1: The Wolves thrilled their homecoming crowd by scoring first. A terrible punt put them in business at the SA 19. It took six plays to score on George Nordgren's 5y run. Billy Gruber added the PAT. The visitors put together a 68y march following the kickoff. Newfield sneaked over from the 1. But the blue-clad Saints added a third TD to the first quarter slate when Gruber hit Nordgren with a 65y pass on the first play after the kickoff.
• Q2: The Red Knights answered with a 65y TD connection of their own, Newfield to Godelfer. The conversion failed, leav­ing SA behind 13-12. The defenses finally stiffened and held both offenses scoreless the rest of the half.
• Q3: The Crusaders took the lead for the first time on a 57y drive that required ten plays. Hauser Reboul went over from 5y away with 3:31 left.
• Q4: Aloysius finally nailed down the victory with 1:03 remain­ing on Nicolosi's 21y sprint around E.

Aloysius returned to Catholic league play to face another undefeated team, Holy Cross, ranked #1 in the AAA AP poll.

• The only blemish on the Tigers was a 7-7 tie with East Jefferson in week 2. HC had just opened district play by trouncing Redemptorist 39-0.
• John Kalbacher's D had surrendered only 32 points in six games.
• His offense was built around a well-rounded backfield of QB Ray Culotta, HB Allan Rappold and Brian Scarengos, and FB Glenn Smith.
• They operated behind a huge offensive line. Five Bengals tipped the scales at over 200 lbs. By contrast, the Crusaders had one, James Brennan.
• The Crossmen had dominated the series, winning 33 of the 42 meetings.

5000 saw the Tigers overpower the Crusaders for 349y on the ground and 23 first downs. HC never had to punt all afternoon.

• Q1: The Bengals drove 81y the first time they got the ball, with Rappold scoring on a 3y jaunt with 1:01 left in the period. Richard Gornto started a string of six con­versions on the afternoon.
• Q2: After SA couldn't move, Merchant punted to Rappold at midfield. A clipping penalty moved the ball back to the 35. That just made the next scoring drive 15y longer. This time, Scarengos ran in from the 10. On the third play following the kickoff, Newfield fumbled, and Mark Nolting recovered at the 10. Rappold broke into the EZ on the first play.
• Q3: Culotta's INT of a Newfield toss at the HC 40 set the ball rolling for another TD. Smith galloped the final 19y. Gronto converted, but a holding penalty moved the ball back 15y. So Tom Shubel booted the ball through the uprights.
• Q4: LB Barry Wilson picked off another Newfield aerial at the SA 27 and returned it 3y. Shortly afterward, Culotta scored on a keeper from the 10. The Crossmen closed out the scoring with another relentless drive, this one covering 82y. Jeffrey LeBlanc did the honors from the 12. When Kalbacher shook Bill Arms' hand at midfield after the game, John said, Welcome to the Catholic league.

Smith led the thundering Tiger herd with 105y while Scarengos rang up 80 and Rappold, 49.

• Redemptorist was 4-3-2 approaching its final game. After upending Jesuit, the Rams had been clobbered by Holy Cross 39-0 and De La Salle 47-7.
• The Irish Channel school could still finish in a three-way tie for sec­ond place in the Catholic district. Since Jesuit defeated De La Salle which bested Redemptorist which upended the Blue Jays, a district committee would determine the second playoff representative be­hind Holy Cross, which beat Jesuit 7-0 on Saturday the 16th to finish 9-0-1.
• So the Rams had something to play for while the Saints had a chance to finish in a fourth place tie with Redemptorist.
• Both schools targeted the game as homecoming.

Aloysius scored its most points of the season in doubling its victory total for the season.

• Q1: The Rams took the opening kickoff and drove to the SA 25, but then QB Don Richoux had the ball knocked from his hand as he at­tempted to pass, and the Crusaders recovered. But Merchant soon had to punt, Richard Jones returning the boot 14y to the Ram 44. Richoux got his offense in gear again, moving smartly to the 30. But on third down, Eric Schroeder snared Don's pass and raced 80y to the EZ behind some fine blocking as the clocked ticked to 2:38. Not long after his TD, the officials ejected Schroeder from the fray.
• Q2: After Dwyer made a fair catch of a punt at his 40, the Saints advanced to their second TD. Robert McNally ended the drive with a run around LE from the 1 on fourth down. Ted Williams booted his second EP. The drive was aided by a 15y personal foul penalty that put the pigskin on the Ram 23.
• Q3: Newfield fired a 13y TD pass to Houin to culminate a 63y march. Redemptorist reached the SA 23 before bogging down.
• Q4: Cammarata put the icing on the cake for the game and the sea­son by returning an INT 24y to pay dirt.

For the second year in a row, the only Crusader on the Times-Picayune All-District team was Mike Cammarata, one of the few squad members who played both offense and defense. Mike also made second team All-State and received a scholarship to Tulane, where he would letter in 1965-66-67.

The list of award winners at the annual football banquet read as follows

• Most Valuable Player - Kenny Newfield
• Best Offensive Player - Billy Dwyer
• Best Defensive Player - Mike Cammarata
• New Orleans Quarterback Club Scholastic Award - Thomas Godelfer