The Southern Mississippi 1,000 Point Club includes three Crusaders. This article will feature the first of them.

Nick Revon, who played in Hattiesburg from 1950 through 1954, is still the all-time leading scorer at USM with 2,136 points, six ahead of Clarence Weatherspoon. "The Cat" holds these records.

• Most Free Throws (Game): 1st (17 vs North Texas State 1/7/54)
• Most Free Throws Attempted (Game): 1st (24 vs North Texas State 1/7/54)
• Points (Season): 1st (737 1953-4) and 3rd (628 1951-2)
• Scoring Average (Season): 2nd (23.8 1953-4)
• Field Goals (Season): 1st (266 1953-4) and 5th (241 1951-2)
• Free Throws (Season): 1st (205 1953-4), 3rd (147 1951-2), 7th (131 1952-3)
• Free Throw Percentage (Season): 7th (80.8 1951-2)
• Points (Career): 1st (2,136)
• Scoring Average (Career): 5th (17.5)
• Field Goals (Career): 2nd (799)
• Free Throws (Career): 1st (538)
• Free Throws Attempted (Career): 2nd (706)
• Free Throw Percentage (Career): 11th (76.2)

The Southern Mississippi 1,000 Point Club includes three Crusaders. The previous article discussed Nick Revon, USM's all-time leading scorer. Now we move to the second Crusader in the club.

#27 on the USM list is G John Vitrano (1967-70) with 1,117 points. Johnny was co-captain his senior year on a 15-11 club. He ranks as follows on the Golden Eagles lists.

• Free Throws (Game) 3rd (14 vs West Florida 12/28/68)
• Field Goal Percentage (season): 5th (57.9 1967-8) and 10th (54.6 1969-70)
• Free Throws (Season): 10th (128 1969-70)
• Field Goal Percentage (Career): 4th (56.6)
• Free Throws (Career): 6th (339)
• Free Throws Attempted (Career): 10th (462)

The Southern Mississippi 1,000 Point Club includes three Crusaders. The previous articles discussed Nick Revon, USM's all-time leading scorer, and Johnny Vitrano. Now we move to the third Crusader in the club.

F Glenn Masson (1972-4) scored 1,026 points to rank #29 on the list. Glenn led the Golden Eagles with 14.5 ppg in 1972-3. Masson is also listed in the USM record book as follows.

• Free Throw Percentage (Season): 2nd (86.7 1973-4)
• Free Throw Percentage (Career): 2nd (78.8)

Eric Berthelot was the star southpaw on Crusader teams that made the playoffs in 1991 and 1992.

• Eric was selected by the Montreal Expos in the 36th Round (995th overall) of the 1992 draft. However, he chose instead to attend the University of Miami on a baseball scholarship. He also had scholarship offeres from LSU, UNO, and Ole Miss.
• After a year in Florida, he transferred to LSU where he played from 1994-7, graduating with a degree in kinesiology.
• Berthelot was a member of the 1994, 1996, and 1997 Tiger teams that participated in the College World Series, winning the championship in both '96 and '97.
• In 1997, he was the winner in relief over Stanford in the game that propelled LSU into the finals against Alabama.

Eric played one year of class A ball at Pittsfield NY in 1998. He is currently a pharmaceutical sales manager in the Jackson MS area.

M. L. (Mel) Lagarde graduated from St. Aloysius in 1945. A nationally-ranked tennis player and member of the Junior Davis Cup team, he played some fierce matches against his childhood friend, Jesuit's Winston Riehl, future doctor for Crusader football teams and longtime tennis coach at SA and BM. Lagarde also played other sports, including basketball in which he started for Brother Ralph's state semifinalists his senior year.

Mel lettered in tennis at Tulane. After graduation, he returned to Esplanade Avenue to coach football, basketball, and baseball. His 6-1-4 defense helped Eddie Toribio's Knights win their first prep football championship in 1952. Lagarde's '52-3 basketball team won the state championship, and his baseball team reached the semifinals. In 1953-4, those results were reversed, basketball advancing to the final four while baseball won it all, as they did again in 1955.

In 1959, Lagarde retired from coaching to open Lakewood School on Canal Blvd., where he served as headmaster for 15 years. During this time, he also covered Tulane athletics and high school sports for The Times-Picayune. He joined the Green Wave staff in 1974 as sports information director until he was named assistant AD ten years later. He was promoted to associate AD in 1992. Lagarde received the Mac Russo Award from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association in 1984 and earned the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame's Distinguished Service Award in 1993. He received the Scoop Hudgins SID Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 from the All-America Football Foundation. Lagarde also served as a member of the Final Four Media Committee for 10 years.

Mel was inducted into the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003.

After playing G for Bob Conlin's Crusaders, Edward Robinson Jr. attended Alabama State University in Montgomery, where he earned a degree in chemistry while playing football for the Hornets. Gaining strength and skill, he played LB so well that he was drafted in the second round in 1992 by the Houston Oilers.

Eddie played 11 years in the NFL: four with the Oilers, two with Jacksonville, four with the Tennessee Titans, and one with the Buffalo Bills.

• His first season, Robinson was the only rookie starter for the Oilers, who were coached by former all-pro NFL LB Jack Pardee. Eddie made 64 tackles and was named first-team All-Rookie by College & Pro Football Weekly. His second year, he registered 57 tackles.
• A high point of Eddie's career was a 49-yard interception return for a TD against the Cincinnati Bengals for Houston in 1995.
• His two best years came with the Titans in 1998 and 1999 when he had 72 tackles and then 68. Eddie played in the Super Bowl against the Rams after the 1999 season. That was the year Tennessee pulled the "Music City Miracle," using a lateral on the kickoff with 16 seconds left to score the winning TD in a playoff game against the Buffalo Bills.