Brett Kavanaugh's private Catholic high school was 'positively swimming in alcohol' and his graduating class of 80 students consumed at least 100 kegs of beer their senior year, according to an account from one of his classmates who has been accused of witnessing Kavanaugh assaulting a high school girl during a drunken party in 1982.

Mark Judge, a classmate of Kavanaugh's at Georgetown Prep, has written several books about his experiences at the elite Catholic high school near Washington, D.C.

Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who stepped forward late last week to accuse Kavanaugh of trying to drunkenly sexually assault her at a party when she was 15 and he was 17, claimed Judge was also in the room during the alleged attack and alternatingly encouraged the assault and tried to stop it.

Judge has said he has no recollection of an assault, and told the Weekly Standard on Friday that the claim was 'just absolutely nuts. I never saw Brett act that way.'

For his part Kavanaugh told Utah senator Orin Hatch that he was not at the party described by Ford - although he did not make clear how he knew exactly which party it was.

Ford herself has said that she does not recall exactly when or where it was, but said that she strongly remembers being sexually attacked.

Judge does not mention witnessing - or taking part in - any sexual assaults in his autobiographical books Wasted and God and Man at Georgetown Prep, which describe his struggles with alcoholism and eventual recovery.

But he does detail the hard-partying exploits of his classmates and friends – a group that included Kavanaugh - often in houses where parents were absent, matching the circumstances described by Ford of her alleged attack.

Friends: Brett Kavanaugh (right) and Mark Judge (left) played football together and were at a school Judge has described in two memoirs as 'positively swimming in alcohol'. Now both men deny that Kavanaugh tried to commit a sex attack

Beach vacation: Mark Judge posted this picture of Kavanaugh (circled) and Judge (top right). The journalist describes drink-fueled vacations and his friend 'Bart O'Kavanaugh' vomiting and passing out

Stripper party: Mark Judge writes about how boys hired a stripper to throw a bachelor party at one of their parents' homes for a teacher who was photographed staring at her breasts. He also posted this picture on Facebook, saying it was a bachelor party for a gym teacher: 'We had a keg and a belly dancer.. we would have been arrested today.'

'[Georgetown] Prep was a school positively swimming in alcohol, and my class partied with gusto – often right under the noses of our teachers,' wrote Judge in his 2005 book God and Man at Georgetown Prep.

'Senior year, my class of eighty decided that by the end of the year we would drink a hundred kegs of beer,' wrote Judge. 'I'm sorry to say that we succeeded.'

Kavanaugh is not named in the books and in both the author uses pseudonyms, in the first book even calling Georgetown Prep 'Loyola', a reference to St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order of Catholic priests who ran the school.

In an earlier book, Wasted : Tales of a GenX Drunk, published in 1997, he writes of how the boys carefully forged IDs, in some cases obtaining them by fraud at the Maryland Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and were regulars at a bar called O'Rourkes.

He writes: 'When we didn’t go to O'Rourke's, we took turns having parties. The word would get out that someone’s parents were going away, and the other guys would pressure them into "popping," promising to help them keep things under control.

I had seen houses destroyed by rampaging hordes of drunken teenagers, friends of the kid whose parents owned the house

'This, of course, was a joke. I had seen houses destroyed by rampaging hordes of drunken teenagers, friends of the kid whose parents owned the house.'

In fact Judge says that happened to him when his parents left him alone and another student kicked a hole from their attic through to the ceiling below as he searched for alcohol.

And he describes how the elite school's students would party barely supervised on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

'My immersion into alcohol began at the end of my sophomore year, during beach week.

'Every year when we let out for the summer because we didn't observe non-Catholic holidays, our school year was about a month shorter than the public schools all the kids from Catholic school would pilgrimage down to the Eastern Shore for a week-long bacchanalia of drinking and sex, or at least attempts at sex,' he writes.

In the 1997 memoir, he writes about being asked during that vacation: 'Do you know Bart O'Kavanaugh?' and replying: 'Yeah. He’s around here somewhere.'

The girl he was speaking to said: 'I heard he puked in someone’s car the other night.'

Judge writes that he replied: 'Yeah. He passed out on his way back from a party.'

In the first book, he described the chaperone as 'Shags', the older brother of his close friend 'Denny'.

When they arrived Shages told them 'you guys want beer, I buy it. You're all under age, and I don’t want to have to haul your ass out of jail for getting busted with some cheesy fake ID.'

In his later memoir he casts the supervisor differently, but in 1997 he also write about sex on the vacations.

'There were girls in and out constantly. Though I had always been girl crazy, up until beach week it had all been minor league advances - games of spin the bottle at Our Lady of Fatima, a few stolen kisses at dances, and my failed attempt at sex the previous summer.

Drink-sodden: Mark Judge has written two memoirs about alcoholism and covered his time at school with Brett Kavanaugh

'Now I had an opportunity to make some headway. Most of the time everyone, including the girls, was drunk. If you could breathe and walk at the same time, you could hook up with someone.

'This did not mean going all the way for the most part, these girls held to the beliefs of their very conservative families but after a year spent in school without girls, heavy petting was virtually an orgy.'

The vacations set the tone for the rest of their school years writes Judge.

Judge described how his senior class hired a stripper for an impromptu bachelor party for his music teacher.

Photos of students vomiting at the party and posing with the stripper were posted in an underground student newspaper called the Unknown Hoya.

'Senior year, we threw Mr. Maud a bachelor party when he announced he was getting married. A guy whose parents were away volunteered his house, and we got a keg of beer and hired a stripper,' wrote Judge.

'We took pictures – of guys throwing up, drunkenly jumping into the swimming pool, mooning the camera.

'There were a lot of shots of Mr. Maud – chugging a beer, surrounded by a group of us with raised mugs, and sitting down while being entertained by the stripper.'

'We covered the party with a "pictorial essay" – i.e. several pictures pasted onto a few pages – in the Unknown Hoya,' added Judge. 'Under the picture of our music teacher, staring the stripper in the chest, we couldn't resist adding the caption, "That's definitely not a B flat."'

Memoirs: Mark Judge's books about his time at Georgetown Prep in the same class as BreTt Kavanaugh will be pored over by senators now contemplating how to deal with the sex assault allegations

Rival accounts: Brett Kavanaugh (seen in his senior year) denies a sexual assault when he was 17 on Christine Blasey Ford (seen in her freshman year) when she was 15

Boys' club: Georgetown Prep was, and remains, all-boys. It is the oldest Jesuit-run Catholic school in the United Stats

Judge also posted a photograph on his Facebook page which he said showed a bachelor party for a gym teacher and added: 'We had a keg and a belly dancer.. we would have been arrested today.'

The differences between his accounts may raise questions over how reliable his version of events is, but that unreliability may be seized on by Democrats keen to throw into question his denial that he witnessed Kavanaugh attack Ford.

Judge said during the summer in high school he and his classmates rented a beach house in Maryland where they drank heavily and 'chased girls without fear of curfew or punishment.'

'Without parents, without even a serious chaperone, we were allowed to enter into a different reality. We ate whatever and wherever we wanted, got drunk at night and in the middle of the day, and chased girls without fear of curfew or punishment,' wrote Judge.

Without parents, without even a serious chaperone, we were allowed to enter into a different reality. We ate whatever and wherever we wanted, got drunk at night and in the middle of the day, and chased girls without fear of curfew or punishment

'Several Catholic girls' schools also had groups down [at the beach] – on one side of our place was a group from Georgetown Visitation, on the other a group from the School of the Holy Child in Maryland.'

He also writes about the freedom given to Georgetown boys by their parents in Wasted : Tales of a GenX Drunk.

'It was the summer before senior year, and by now, even though I wasn’t drinking every day, I was completely hooked,' he wrote.

'Going a week without getting drunk was unthinkable. I was spending between four and seven nights with the gang, either at a party or at O’Rourke's.

'Because we were going to be seniors, our parents gave us tremendous slack. We were pretty much left alone to do what we wanted, when we wanted.'

Judge became a member of the football team and although he does not mention it in the book, so did Kavanaugh - and the two posed together in a yearbook photograph captioned 'Those Feared Footballers' with the future federal judge showing his tounge.

Judge, however, says that partying was more important than sport: 'For the past four months, we had thrown parties every weekend as well as after school, and had even snuck a keg into the parking lot during a basketball game.

'The football team had gone five and four, but, more important, we had emptied more than sixty kegs, bringing us within sight of the magic number.'

Judge said Georgetown Prep had 'lost its female cheerleaders' in the 1970s because the girls 'had been humiliated by Prep boys in the bleachers making crude remarks.'

'It says something about Prep that it was the cheerleaders rather than the boys who had left,' he added.

To cheer on their football team, Judge and three male classmates got drunk and decided to dress up as female cheerleaders and rush the field during the homecoming game.

'There was only one imperative: we had to be drunk,' wrote Judge. 'There was no way we were going to storm the field during the homecoming game dressed in women's clothes if we were sober,' he wrote.

'It was obvious to everyone, including the teachers, that we were drunk.'

Testimony in demand: Both Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor, and Brett Kavanaugh, seen leaving his Chevy Chase, MD, home Monday, now face being questioned by senators about a party when she was 15 and he was 17 - which he denies being at

Elite school: Georgetown Prep's reputation in the early 1980s is now in question

The boys wrote 'PREP #1 BEAT LANDON' on their underwear, and mooned the crowd during the performance – but they got the order mixed up so it read 'LANDON #1 BEAT PREP.' Their team ended up losing the game.

During a raucous graduation party at a mansion in Maryland, Judge recalled that one of his classmates did a cannonball into the pool while pulling down his shorts to 'moon' Father Howard, the headmaster of Georgetown Prep.

At the same party, Judge wrote that the school's sex education teacher stumbled across a Georgetown Prep student having sex with a girl behind a tree in the front yard.

'[The teacher Mr. Ward] walked over to find a Prep student in a compromising position with a girl from Stone Ridge, the ritzy local Catholic girls school,' wrote Judge.

'Ward, not knowing what to do when confronted with the fruits of his teaching, simply tried to beat a retreat to his car. But the Prep student called after him. 'Nothing wrong with masturbation,' he yelled, 'but this is a hell of a lot better.'

Judge described how one teacher reprimanded him and his friends for their behaviour: 'To us, everything was a joke. We had no concern for the truth. We were mocking people without pointing to what we found good – aside from drinking, sex, and violent home-made movies. Hart was partially right. Perhaps we could have been more serious. But isn't there a kernel of seriousness to satire?'

Christine Blasey Ford, who attended a nearby girls' school, claimed she attended a small party with Kavanaugh and Judge in 1982 when the boys were 17 and she was 15.

This week, Ford stepped forward to accuse Kavanaugh of assaulting her at the party. The allegations have not been corroborated, but it has led some Democrats to call for a delay in Kavanaugh's confirmation vote to the Supreme Court.

Ford said Kavanaugh and Judge were heavily intoxicated when she met them at a small house party in Maryland. She said they took her into an upstairs bedroom where Kavanaugh pinned her to the bed, climbed on top of her, fumbled with her clothing, and put his hand over her mouth. Ford said Judge stood nearby, encouraging his friend but also telling him to 'stop.'

Ford said the boys were laughing and turned the music up in the room which drowned out any noise from the rest of the house.

At one point, Ford said Judge jumped on top of Kavanaugh and both boys fell off of her. She said she ran into the bathroom and locked the door, and waited before she heard them go downstairs before she fled the house.

She also said the alleged assault had a detrimental impact on her life and she required years of therapy to deal with it.

Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.

'I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation,' he said. 'I did not do this back in high school or at any time.'