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Beatrice Kolesar

Bob Flickner

Scott Moon

Abby Jones with coach Bill Keely

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The Franklin 880 relay record stood for 34 years until it was broken in 1959, and Ed Treadwell was involved (coach, AD) with both teams. Herb Eckert, Floyd Smith, John Stuttler and Dick McDowell ran a 3:40.4 on May 22, 1925. That record stood until  Frank Fultz (Jack's brother), Ted Judson, Bert Moyar and Bill Cozad broke it on May 23, 1959, at the state meet. Wayne Eakin is also pictured in the photo.

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 (RIP) Venango Catholic (nee Christian and formerly St. Joseph in Oil City), which dropped the sport in the 1990s. I've recently included more stuff on basketball as well as the doings in other sports.

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Former Derrick sports editor Penny Weichel is webmaster.

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Contact pennyweichel@gmail.com if need be.

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