Fall 1948 Sports
Football Goes Undefeated
First undefeated football season – 7 victories, 1 tie
First undefeated football season – 7 victories, 1 tie
Cryptic article referencing Mr. Staub working on an Alma Mater
The Roundup 11/48
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The Alma Mater
This I Remember – Fr. S. J. Rivoire, S. J.
Al Pierotti ’64
The Roundup costs 15 cents. The Last Roundup sells for $1.00.
The Roundup 1/49, 3/49
The Roundup March/April ’49 reports the formation of the golf team. The Roundup April '53 lists it as a major sport for first time.
The Roundup March/April ’49, 4/53
The Roundup reports on Jesuit's spirit mascot dog. The November 1952 includes an article about his death.
The Roundup earns 1st honors and is accepted as a member of the Catholic School Press.
The Roundup Oct. 49
For the first time, Jesuit presented half-time activities and a dance following the game.
The Roundup 1966
Gino Biasatti, 190 lb. fullback for Jesuit Rangers, named on the second All-America Catholic H.S. football team for 1949 season.
Library Assistants Organization begins
The Roundup
4th Annual Southwestern AAU Senior Boys Basketball Tournament.
Resignation of Don Rossi as football, basketball, and baseball coach announced by Fr. John Schwing, A.D.
Mother's Club Scrapbook 49-50
44 graduate from Jesuit.
Jesuit’s Rangers boarded a chartered airliner at Love Field for Rochester, N.Y. where they will meet Aquinas High in an intersectional schoolboy football game; 25 men made the trip. They lost the game 46-7.
Lancaster (Lank) Smith, former member of the Notre Dame Coaching staff, is selected as head coach succeeding Don Rossi.
The Roundup Oct. 1950
Jesuit sponsored Junior American League Baseball team. Wins first trophy.
41 graduate from Jesuit High School
Rev. J. A. Sweeney, SJ succeeds Rev. D. R. Druhan, SJ as President
The Roundup 10/52
Fr. Edward Curry, S.J. becomes Principal
J.H.S. will be represented by 5 novices in the Dallas regional golden gloves tournament for the first time; J.T. Collins, a finalist in the state bantam weight division in 1945, is coaching the small but enthusiastic group
Tennis added as TCIL sport
The Roundup
Mascot Dog “Ranger” dies; replaced by “Ranger II” who dies one month later.
The Roundup 11/52, 3/54, 4/54
Jesuit held a Marine flag raising in a memorial service for Joseph Lostetter who died in Korea; the Lostetters donated the flag to Jesuit.
The Roundup 2/53; Mother's Club Scrapbook 52-53
Golf team referred to as major sport for first time. Boxing team given prominence although earlier editions have mentioned it.
The Roundup 4/53
Square dance club formed with girls from St. Edwards, Ursuline, and Our Lady of Good Counsel High Schools.
Bishop Thomas K. Gorman requires all Dallas Catholic Schools to have a Unified Graduation at Dallas Convention Center.
Very Rev. Thomas. J. Shields, S.J., founder of Jesuit High School, Dallas returns as President.
Mother's Club Scrapbook 53-54, The Roundup 10/53
J. D. Roberts is elected best lineman by both Associated and United Press.
The Roundup 12/53
Fr. Walter McCauley, S.J. becomes Principal
Start of Jesuit High Bowling League
The Roundup 2/54
Radio Club reformed under Mr. Underhill, SJ; originally formed under Fr. May.
The Roundup 2/54 (earlier editions cover this club as well)
Jesuit band annual dance; featured entertainers were the six Kool Katz.
Mother's Club Scrapbook 54
Plans for leather bound The Last Roundup
The Roundup 3/54
Gene Ingram received the Bishop Lynch Trophy at senior class night; first time in school’s 12 year history the award given to three members of same family. Gene’s brother, Herschel, won the trophy in 1944. His brother, Robert, won it in 1948.
Most Reverend Augustine Dauglmayr, auxiliary bishop of DFW, presented diplomas to over 200 Catholic H.S. grads of Dallas at Sacred Heart Cathedral
Fr. Michael Kammer, S. J. replaces Fr. Edward Curry S. J. as principal. Mr. Edward Coles, last year’s athletic director, becomes the assistant principal and prefect of discipline. He replaces Fr. John Vessels, S. J.
The Roundup 10/54
First reference to freshmen wearing beanies; faculty concerned about hazing Wearing beanies “contributes to this spirit of tradition…the attitude of lower classmen towards upperclassmen…Herein lies the purpose of the beanies, to point out a certain group as being Freshmen and to humble them in an insignificant way in the eyes of others….The Freshmen should view wearing these beanies as part of their duty and responsibility to their school, rather than a deliberate attempt on the part of the National Honor Society to make them look ridiculous. ” - editorial from The Roundup 11/54
The Roundup 10/54
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Cheerleading
Camera Club formed
The Roundup 10/54
Win Texas Catholic Interscholastic League State Championships in Football
The Radio Club builds a tesla coil; to illustrate principles of electronics and radio transmission.
54-55 Yearbook
Two debate teams take 1st and 2nd places in a tournament among Texas and Louisiana Catholic high schools. The winning team was WM. Hodges and Claiborne Johnson. Johnson was judged the best speaker.
The Last Roundup will cost between $3 and $4.
The Roundup 3/55
Track becomes varsity sport.
The Roundup 4/55
Freddie Schaeffer makes the state aware of Jesuit by pacing the Rangers to the TCIL track title. The senior won 3 individual events, tied for 2nd in another, and anchored the winning sprint relay as Jesuit beat runner-up St. Thomas of Houston by a comfortable 20 points. All times will go as records as this is the first state track meet in TCIL history. It was Jesuit’s second state championship of the school year; the Rangers won the football title last Dec.
The concert at McFarlin Auditorium remains under the direction of Mr. E. L. Hohman.