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The Leather Egg

Explanation: A story in the Nov. 11,1922, edition of The News-Herald covering Herb Eckert's big rushing game referred to the football as "the leather egg." That killed me; cracked me up, in fact (pun intended.) So I'm using it along with (I think) a sort of a 1920s art deco font. Pictured is a 1920s football. The leather egg. Sounds like the name of an English pub.

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1922: How It Was

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.​

yardsandpoints.com (formerly venangofootball.com and then route8rivalry.com) covers the grid doings of Oil City and Franklin high schools in Venango County. Not only does it include the football histories of the two schools, which date back to 1896, but of (RIP) Venango Catholic/Chriistian/St. Joe, which dropped the sport in the 1990s. I've recently included more stuff on basketball as well as the other sports.​

You can say what you want about the caliber of football played in northwestern Pa. (few Division I players and state champs), but one thing you can't take away. These schools and their local playmates are old, old OLD. Lots of history here.

Former Derrick sports editor Penny Weichel is webmaster.​

Contact pennyweichel@gmail.com if need be.

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