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The Football Tradition for the Prep League in
1924:

 The official Times-Picayune account of the game played on Sunday, October 26, 1924:

 Copyright © 1924 The Times-Picayune Publishing Co.

 JESUITS SMOTHER HOLY CROSS TEAM UNDER 48-0 SCORE

  BY GENE THATCHER

The Jesuits High School eleven was at the peak of its form yesterday afternoon at Loyola Stadium against Jimmy Burns’ Holy Cross footballers, and when that famous “Healy Drive” works like it did Sunday, there are few prep elevens in this vicinity that are capable of halting this offensive.  Holy Cross College was put in that predicament and while Burns’ charges fought gamely, they were smothered under by the perfect interference of the entire Jesuits team, the speed of Quarterback Seeuws, and the snap and charge of the entire Jesuit combination.  The final score was 40-0 in favor of the 1922-23 Class A Prep champions and the total count just about brings out the difference between the two teams as regards their relative strength.  The Cross players were outplayed, outclassed and outsmarted at every twist and turn.

To pick an individual star out of the smooth-working Jesuits machine probably would do an injustice to the men not mentioned.  But in defense of that best quarterback yet uncovered in prep circles this year, it would be a crime not to especially mention the work of Ford Seeuws.  This youngster showed a dash of speed and ability to pick his way through a broken field that probably has not been equaled on the high school gridiron this season.  His headwork in directing the team, too, was a bright light, while even his defensive play was of the highest order.  To say the least, Seeuws played a splendid all around game.  Not far behind the plucky signal-caller was the play of the entire Jesuits line and the crushing drive of the backfield.  The whole Blue-Jay front wall of defense, from Captain Pete Miller right on down to little DeBuys, presented an unbreakable barrier to Holy Cross line plunges, while the work of Darcantel, Murphy, Wogan, Fitzwilliam, Cook, Burke, Juge, et al, in the backfield was fine.

Standing out over the game but hopeless task that the Cross gridders were called upon to accomplish was the punting of Fullback Lynch.  This player time and again sent long spirals up into the air when it seemed as if the Blue-Jays were threatening to score, and it was the toe work of this player who turned the winners back many times and who kept the score down as low as it was.  Then there was the work of Captain Walsh, Stoma, Falgoust and Theriot on the line, and McVitch, Schmitz, and Rosenthal in the backfield.  All performed well and should be congratulated on the good fight they put up.

Jesuits got off to a slow start, as Jesuits teams usually do.  It was near the end of the first quarter before the winners shoved over their first touchdown.  This came when Ford Seeuws, after a number of bucks, had advanced the ball to the   one-yard line and took it through right tackle.  “Lizzy” Ford missed the dropkick for the extra point.  In the next period, Jesuits scored their second marker when Seeuws again took it over, this time through left tackle for five yards.  Hal Varenholt kicked goal this time and the score stood 13-0.

Jesuits scored again in this quarter when Darcantel slanted off right tackle for ten yards and a touchdown.  Ford again kicked goal.  The third quarter was the Blue-Jays’ best, for in this period they scored three touchdowns.  The first was by Seeuws when, on perfect interference by the entire Jesuits team, he raced sixty yards for a score.  Ford drop-kicked goal for the extra point.  The second marker came when Vic Wogan intercepted a Holy Cross pass and ran fifteen yards over the last white line.  Then “fast boy” Seeuws again broke loose, this time for thirty yards around left end for a touchdown.  Ford again dropkicked goal and the score stood 41 to 0.

Healy rushed in substitute on top of substitute in the last period and Holy Cross tightened up in its defensive as well as uncovering its offensive for a while.  But the winners were not to be denied and scored when Juge piled through right guard for a half-yard and a touchdown, after bucks had advanced the ball that close to the goal line.  Then like a bolt from a clear blue sky, Jimmy Burns’ charges suddenly opened up on their air attack and, with but a minute to play, two straight passes gave Holy Cross her only two first downs of the game and brought the ball well past midfield.  And then, as the downtown boys lined up for another toss, Timer Flanagan fired the gun and the game was over.  It ended a last minute rally for the losers and probably caused the victors to heave a sigh of relief.