The Football Tradition of the Catholic League in 

1960

The following article ran in the Times-Picayune on Monday, November 28, 1960:

Jesuit Beats HC for Catholic
Crown, 27 to 0

SCREEN GETS PAIR OF TD'S

Pat Plays Less Than 3 Minutes Overall

By N. CHARLES WICKER

Pat Screen didn't see much action against Holy Cross but during less than five minutes he was in the game he scored two touchdowns and added two extra points to lead Jesuit to a 27-0 win Sunday at City Park before a crowd of close to 12,000 fans.

With the victory went the Catholic District championship, the third straight for Ken Tarzetti's Jays and a trip into the state triple A playoffs against the Byrd High School this weekend.

Screen, in scoring 14 points, missed by two of gaining a tie for the state AAA scoring championship.

Pat scored on a 94-yard* run the first time he carried the ball and took in a 23-yard pass for a touchdown the third time he had his hands on the pigskin.

Charley Lancaster thrilled the Jesuit rooters with a 72-yard run for  the fourth Jesuit touchdown, the second longest run of the game.  A pass, Adams to Don McCoy from the five-yard line, gave the Jays their third touchdown.

Here is the 1960 Jesuit Team Photo:

Held scoreless in the opening period, the Jays pushed across two touchdowns in the second period and one each in the third and final quarters.

Screen was used only sparingly by Tarzetti.  He played actually about five minutes, carried the ball twice, went out for a pass on another occasion, and was used as a decoy on one play.

Right before he took in the touchdown pass he gained 17 yards.  If he didn't stumble on the play, he might have been off to the races.

If the game hadn't been tough for the Jays in the first quarter, which ended scoreless, Screen might not have seen action in the second period.  

On the sidelines for the first period and part of the second period, Screen came into the game with a bit more than eight minutes in the second quarter with the Jays with their backs to the wall following a punt by Lanzetta to the Jesuit 11.

Jesuit was offsides on the first play and was set back to the six with 9:09 remaining in the first half.  That brought Screen in for the first time.  On the first play, without any blocking, Pat raced wide to the left, ran over his interference and 94 yards to give his team a 6-0 lead.  Don Adams, who started in place of Screen and guided the Jays masterfully, both as "T" quarterback and single wing tailback, shot a pass to Ken Vairin in the end zone for the extra point that gave Jesuit a 7-0 lead.

Joe McGoey, the sensational 14-year-old soph, stopped the Jays' first drive in the first period, intercepting a pass from Adams at the HC 11.  He returned it to the 15.  It came after the Jays had moved the opening kickoff  from their 40 to HC's six.  Before the Jays ran the first play from the six they suffered a five-yard penalty for delaying the game.  There Adams shot the pass McGoey intercepted.

Holy Cross drove from the 15 for four straight first downs, but on a play that found Harry Nunez moving to the Jay 27, the Tigers were guilty of clipping on the 35 and set back to the midfield stripe.

They were never able to recover and it was on the first running play from scrimmage after Lanzetta's punt that Screen ran 94 yards for a score.

Holy Cross took the kickoff and moved from the 27 to the 46 and got the ball again when Bobby Weiss fumbled the punt return which Harry Nunez recovered at the Jesuit 39.  HC moved to the 31 in three plays, but on fourth down, failed to make enough for the first down and Jesuit took over on their 31.

The Jays moved 69 yards for the second score which came with 35 seconds remaining in the first half.

Sid Lawson picked up 28 yards and a first down on the first play, McCoy got five and after Screen picked up 14 and another first down at the 23 with 35 seconds remaining in the half.

Adams hit Screen all alone in the end zone with a pass for the second Jay score.  Screen converted and the Jays held a 14-0 lead at halftime.

The Jays moved 57 yards in ten plays, with the aid of a 15-yard penalty against Holy Cross, for the third period TD.  Adams passed to McCoy from the five for the score.  Screen's conversion attempt was low.

After an exchange of punts the Tigers took the ball on their own 20 when Screen punted over the goal line.

Holy Cross in three plays showed little and Lanzetta punted 40 yards to the Jesuit 35.  the Jays were guilty of clipping at the 38 and penalized back to the 23.  One play netted five as the third period ended.

On the first play of the final period, Lancaster went 72 yards for the final score and Screen converted.

The Jays had another scoring chance when they got to the 21.  Everyone thought Screen would be given a chance to carry the ball again for a chance to win the state scoring title but Coach Tarzetti was taking no chances; he needs Screen too much for the next game, the playoff contest against Byrd.

All-preppers Screen, Kenny Vairin, Larry Ecuyer, Percy Viosca and Dudley Phillips of the Jays and David "Buck" Landry of the Tigers were by far the top performers on the field.

* - 43 years later, this 94-yard run is still the longest run from scrimmage in Blue Jay History.  Charley Lancaster's 73-yard run in this game just missed making the Blue Jay all time list.

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