CYO sports would eventually thrive at St. Albert’s, but one sport did not. Tackle football was not to be allowed at St. Albert’s school. This was not a vote by the Dads club, or a vote by the parish, it was a decree by Msgr. Weier and was not negotiable.

With tackle football off the plate for the students of St. Albert’s, the Dad’s club did come up with a decent substitute in flag football. This would be played as an intramural sport at St. Albert’s in the field behind the gymnasium. If some of the parents really insisted on their children playing tackle football, they would be allowed to join the St. Sebastian football team about a mile down the road. This solution – for the most part – worked and St. Albert’s began intramural football in the fall of 1967.

St. Albert’s now had everything historically in place. The Church was completed, the school was completed, the gymnasium was completed, and the Marist nuns were established. With the addition of sports in 1964 and intramural football in 1967, the early history of the Church came to a conclusion.

The fall of 1967 would see a new era begin at St. Albert’s as over 80 “little friends” were making their way for the first time to the school. The era of the Class of ’75 was about to begin.