The 1933 Morgan City High School football team finished its season with an 11-1 record and fell to Jesuit, 6-0, in the state championship game. Morgan City defeated Plaquemine, Reserve, Hammond, Baton Rouge, Bogalusa, Abbeville, New Iberia, Ponchatoula, Houma, and Picayune, Mississippi.
Seven of Morgan City’s wins were via shutouts as the team outscored opponents 248-36. The team included, on the front row holding the ball, mascot Bubber Budge. On the second row, William Cullen, Joseph J. Russo, Ira A. Breaux, Ogden Stansbury, Rocco Russo (captain), Norman Stansbury
(alternate captain), Sam Russo; and Albert Thibodaux. On the third row are Warner Beadle, Raymond Gautreaux, Buster Smith, Albert Stansbury, Mansfield Cotton, Roland Breaux, Charles Fuhrer, Ira Driskill and Gus Polaski. On the back row are Coach J.E. “Fuzzy” Brown, Edgar Adams,
Russell Stoute, Lawrence Wooters, Simon Labe, James Stansbury, Assistant Coach Edward Schwing and Principal H.S. Hover. (Submitted Photo/Courtesy of Alfred Arceneaux)
1933 MCHS state runner-up football team
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