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Ain't we got fun!

Their first -- and in Oil City's case only -- district titles in hoops
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The Derrick and The News-Herald had the Oilers and Nursery covered in the early 1920s
Oil City's 'Ike' Cleaves: the first to 500?
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Ed Treadwell
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This photo of the 1919 Nursery includes erstwhile football star Hendry Ramsey, (second from right, first row) who would go on to score a school record six touchdowns against Titusville that fall. Ramsey's record still stands.

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The 'league' in 1924
Louise Smiley: Early Franklin basketball star and then some
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The News-Herald predicted Rocky Grove's Jimmy Shaffer (front row, second from right) would be "the talk of the district" after scoring 308 points in 1928.

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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@outlook.com if need be.

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