Alcee Fortier High School - Tarpon Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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J GOTBALL A JACK PIZZANO Head Football Conch Assistant Coaches Pete Maibles, Cecil Carver, and Joseph Abraham. S the curtain rose upon this year's version of that perrenial drama known as Prep Sports , we find the 1944 Tarpon gridders tak- ing their places for the first act a little backstage as the most' inexperienced and untried cast present, with little past and a dubious future. The only name meriting star billing is the lone returning letterman, Captain Leonary Duby Grosz. The program announces that the Tarps will use for the first time in their history the famous T formation. Head Coach jack Piz- zano, assisted by Coaches Pete Mailhes, Cecil Car- ver, Stanley Fitzpatrick, and Harold Heidings- felder, nods dutifully toward the director and the play is on. H Fortier? 0: Newman 7 , In a surprise, to end all surprises the Tarps lost to a rugged gathering from the Isidore New- man High school, 7 to 0 before 200 fans at City Park Stadium in a non-league warm-up. The lightweight Newmans registered their lone tally in -the first period when they set the highly fav- ored over-confident Fortier boys back on their heels. After recovering a fumble on the Tarp 15-yard line, Gamble split the middle for 12 yards, and on the next play Wilson Shirley from a T dropped a pass into Sam Sander's arms in the Fortier end zone. Another pass, Shirley to Gamble, clicked for the extra point. Fortier 14: Peters 6 ln their first prep league game the Tar- pons bounced into the win column with a 14-6 victory over the Peters Wildcats at City Park. Climaxing a drive which began at the start of the second quarter on the For-tier 43, White, after an 18-yard saunter, crossed the Peters' goal line standing up. Mailey kicked the extra point. With but a minute and 20 seconds remaining in the first half, the Wildcats struck back. Recov- cring a Tarp fumble on the Fortier 36-yard line, Foss, Peters quarterback, after one play which netted 10 yards, faded back and heaved a nice pass to Laurie, who took it on the 3-yard stripe and scored. The try for extra point failed. The Tarpons scored their final touchdown in the third period on a pass from White to Belas after White had returned a punt from his own 37 to Peters' 37. Mailey again kicked the extra point. Fortier 6: St. Aloysius 28 In their second prep league game the Tarps bowed 28 to 6 to a fast and shifty Crusader team before 5000 fans. The Saints' first stringers started early and scored three times. Retiring after the first quarter in favor of the under- studies, they came back in the last stanza and chalked up another tally. Breaux made all the extra points. The Tarpons scored their only touchdown on a recovered fumble on the Saints' 18-yard line. After several plays White skirted around end and dived over the goal for the score. Mailey missed the try for the extra point. Page Fifty-four

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Page Fifty-five Fortier 0: Jesuit 28 In the next game the Tarps lost to Merlin Remmers and his fleet-footed mates from Jesuit High, 28 to 0, before 4500 fans. The Jays' first touchdown ,came after Remmers returned White's punt 23 yai'ds to: the Tarpons' 27. After a first down had been inade, Caswell Brown passed to Remmers for theiscore, the latter converting for the extra point. The Blue Jays recovered a For- tier fumble on the Tarp 18, and after two line plays had picked up 9 yards, Remmers circled end for the second touchdown, and again added the extra point. The third jay touchdown came as a result of a sustained drive from the 50-yard line with Remmers plunging over from the 2- yard line, and again adding the extra point. The final score of the game came when Banowitz plunged over from the 1-yard line to climax a jay drive. Correa added the extra point. The loss of4White early in the game, because of a bad appendix hurt the Tarpon chances consid- erably. Foriter Op Holy Cross 73 After being stunned by a 63-yard run by jack Ward early in the first period, the Holy Cross Tigers came back and used everything they had to down the Fortier Tarpons, 73 to 0, in one of the worst defeats in Tarpon history. The Tarpons' only scoring threat came in the open- ing minutes of the first period, when jack Ward ran 62 yards on an off tackle smash and was caught from behind by Hillary Chollet. Grosz picked up the first down, but the Tiger line clamped down and the ball went over on downs. Student managers Maurice Eagan, Delery Vega and Williant Evans handled many an important chore for the Tarp gridders and did a swell fob of it too. i t