Organized in October of 1908 as primarily a basketball club, the Loyola Club would put together a make-shift Gonzaga College Alumni Squad to tune up the College team annually.  The 1908 squad was no match for the well-drilled collegians and demolished. The team was not formed in 1909 sticking to basketball.
 
Many of the players had been part of the Shattuck's Pharmacy team managed by James Mulligan during the 1909 season.

Resurrected for 1910, the Loyola's finally put a team on the field that could give the College a run for its money.  The 1911 and 1913 teams featured a young Joe Albi, former quarterback with the Gonzaga JYA team and whose name adorned Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane from 1950 to 2022. 
 
Coach Jimmy Irsfield came aboard following his short 1909 stint with the Blair Business College and subsequent lawsuit where he was paid $100 for one game.

Much like the club started, it ended in 1913 with the collegians dismantling the ill-prepared alums.

Bish De Mers would join the ordnance football team of the S.O.S. headquarters team in France claiming the A.E.F. Championship of France during World War I.

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