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

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MR. PETE MAIHLES Basketball Coach ASKETBALL THE FIRST ROUND HE TARPONS opened the 1945 cage season against the highly, favored Holy Cross quintet, and were overwhelmed by the Tigers, 60 to 23. Fortier just cou1dn't match the speed and height of the Bengals, despite the splendid efforts of young Sid Keller, who tallied 11 of his team's points. Lack of height and inexperience again proved an insuperable obstacle as Fortier was downed by Wfarren Easton, 55 to 22. At the end of the first half the Eagles were out in front, 21 to 8. With a remarkable display of courage the Tarpons fought back in the third quarter to score 11 points to their opponents' 3. Unable to sustain their drive, however, they saw Easton forge to the front in the final stanza. Fortier's basketball hopes rested heavily upon the shoulders of this quintet. Left to right: Milton Tuite White, Sidney Keller, William Meeks, Hubert Froeba, Charles Jung. Page Fifty-nine

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UNIOR FCDCPTBALL Left to right, front row: Robert Lowe, Fred Lamprecht, Robert McBride, Robert Belote, Donald Aucoin, Kenneth Cusachs, Jack Haller, Manuel Zanco, Stanley Marting second row: Robert Fos, William Trapp, Fred Sallean, Wallace Olivier, James Marshall, Sidney Caillouet, Billy Harman, Henry Maumusf third row: Jerry Evans, Joseph Loper, Robert Fusilier, Her- man Fitzpatrick, Thomas Meagher, Harold Cothern, Gail Preston, John Hryniewichg fourth row: Coach Harold Heidingsfelder, Frank Schmidt, Milton Brener, Raoul Lozano, Emmett Ryan, John Longo, Assistant Coach Joseph Bevan. HE Fortier B football team was reorgan- ized this year after a one-year layoff. Play- ing a tough schedule of seven games, the Baby Tarps were victorious in all but two. The Minnows started the season off right with a 6-0 victory over the Rugby Cardinals. The next game was with the junior Rebels from Nicholls, whom they defeated, 58-0. Going ahead with their winning streak the Baby Tarps defeated an aggregation from the Metairie Park Fortier Fortier .......,..... , Country Day Varsity, 7-0. It remained for the junior jaylets from Jesuit High to break the three-game winning streak of the Minnows, 13-7, in a gruelling affair. Easton, too, took a win from the Baby Tarps in a close game, 7-6. The Tarps bounced back into the win column with a 27-0 victory over the baby Wildcats from Peters High. In their last game of the season the Min- nows had to fight all the way to down a hard fighting and highly spirited St. Aloysius eleven, 7-6, at City Park Stadium. 65 Rugby Varsity 0 385 Nicholls ..............,,. H .......... -, 0 F0rfiCr ....-......... 75 Country Day Varsity ...,.....,,, 0 Fortier-- ........... Fortier ..........,. ,. Fortier ,......... Fortier .......,.,.... 75 Jesuit .... - ...........,...,,,,,,.,,------,- 15 65 Easton ..,.,.,.,- W ,,,,,, ---.-- 7 --..275 Peters ......,..,.-.... ,,--,------,- , n 0 75 St. Aloysius .,.,.,, , ,,,-,,,,, 6 Page Fifty-eight

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Fortier provided plenty of trouble for their next opponents, the St. Aloysius Crusaders in the first two frames. At the half the score stood 14 to 6. Then the Saints got hot and embarked on a scoring spree which netted 21 points. When the second half ended, they were well out in front, winning by a score of 47 to 20. The final quarter, played mostly by subs of both teams, found the contestants fairly evenly matched. The Jesuit Jays blanked Fortier 8 to 0 in the first quarter and continued on to a 51 to 15 vic- tory. jack Carson was top man for the Tar- pons with 5 points, having becomeneligible for play with the start of the new term. With four losses and no wins, the Fortier five upset the apple cart when they edged out the Nicholls Rebels 35 to 34 in one of the clos- est games of the prep ,season. Charlie Jung led the Tarpons on to victory, going wild in the third period and sinking three field goals to overcome an early Rebel lead. The Tarpons trailed at the half, 17 to 15, but outscored Nich- olls, 9 to 3, in the third quarter, and led for the rest of the game. In the last game of the first round, the Tarps were defeated by the Peters Wildcats, 38 to 52. The Wildcats had a slim 2-point lead at half time, and gained only one in the third quarter. With a burst of speed, however, they ran their score to 38 in the last frame while the best the Tarps could do was 32. THE SECOND ROUND Coach Pete Maihles sent his team into the second round with a little more experience and a lot more confidence in themselves. The Tarp five faced Holy Cross in the opener, and al- though the team put up a good fight, the Tigers won, 73 to 23. Keller, Carson and Froeba played well, but the combined efforts of Chollet, Capo and Heider were a little too much for them. The next week the Tarpons battled the Easton Eagles at Behrman gym in the second game of the final round. The experienced and favored Eagles took a 26-point lead early in the second half and held it. The fighting Tarpon five did not give up until the final gun sounded, and the score wound up 51 for Easton and 25 for the Tarps. Page Sixty