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Oiler Coaching Eras

* Fountain was Oil City's first paid coach; however, J. Henry Quirk was listed as coach from 1915-17. He did the coaching because Fountain didn't get along with the players. Besides Quirk (who played at Penn State), other volunteer coaches the Oilers had before 1915 included Van Eakin, Jim O'Neil, William Walker, Walter Mount and a guy named Davis.

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** Believe it or not, but Ron Younker still holds the Penn State record for longest punt return average at 17.6 yards from 1953-54.

ABOUT THIS SITE

If you are from Anywhere, USA, and happened to stumble upon this site, Franklin and Oil City are about eight miles apart along Route 8 in Venango County, Pa. -- which is about halfway between Pittsburgh and Erie in the western part of the state.

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yardsandpoints.com (formerly venangofootball.com and then route8rivalry.com) covers the grid doings of Oil City and Franklin high schools in Venango County. It also includes the football histories of the two schools, which date back to 1896, along with that of Venango Catholic (nee Christian and formerly St. Joseph in Oil City), which dropped the sport in the 1990s. VC has been in co-ops with Oil City and Franklin since then. I've recently included more stuff on basketball concerning Venango County's five PIAA schools as well as the doings in other sports, fall through spring.

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This is a Wix site with longtime but former Derrick sports editor Penny Weichel serving as webmaster. She is the former webmaster of ocpafootball.com and franklinpafootball.com, and most of the information found there can be found here. 

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Contact pennyweichel@gmail.com if need be.

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