Oilers hoist Pat Patterson after beating Franklin. --- One thing about the Oil City community: it loves its high school football...

Update as of Dec. 30: Red Law is over 2,000 career yards rushing -- and still counting. ​ As I said on Dec. 17 in this space, I'm not...

I stand corrected. For years I believed – and told anyone who would listen – that Oil City never won a district championship in boys...

The football seasons for both Oil City and Franklin in 1920 – 100 years ago -- were fairly unspectacular, record-wise. Oil City started...

February marks the 50-year anniversary of two of the three highest scoring individual games in Venango County history, including the...

I wrote a piece that soon will be in The Derrick/The News Herald about Mike Emick and Mark Garbacz and their scoring heroics 50 years ago...

Ted Marchibroda was a football player ahead of his time when he quarterbacked the Franklin Nurserymen from 1946-48. Everybody knows he...

Sean Stack, Dakota Cole, Zac Kiefer, Holden Stahl and Cam Russell gather around the Route 8 Rivalry trophy. (This article originally...

So let’s start where the season ended – Nov. 11, 1933. Franklin vs. Oil City at Miller-Sibley Field. The Nursery – as the Knights were...

Nov. 17, 1928. The day that lives in infamy in Oil City High School football annals. Sharon 108, Oil City 0. “Defeat Worst Sustained in...

This marks the 60-year anniversary of not only a third straight Section 2 championship for Franklin, but the school’s first first team...

The football seasons for both Oil City and Franklin in 1920 – 100 years ago -- were fairly unspectacular, record-wise. Oil City started...

Franklin was among the elite in District 10 football, for about 35 years, beginning in the late 1950s when Jim McCullough became coach....

(This article appeared in the Nov. 4. 2020, edition of The Derrick and The News Herald.) Just hit me Tuesday morning: Oil City is 4-0 in...

(This article was published as an Out of the Archives feature in the Oct. 20, 2020, editions of The Derrick and The News-Herald.) On Oct....

This article appeared in the Oct. 2, 2020, edition of The Derrick. The familiar encouragement of "you go, girl!" ought to be lettered on...

This story first appeared in the Aug. 12, 2020, edition of The Derrick. Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, Oil...

(This column originally appeared in the Sept. 3, 2020 edition of The Derrick/The NewsHerald.) Oil City and Franklin will meet twice this...

Oil City’s Noah Petro is taking his football talents to Thiel. “Proud to say I’m committing to Thiel,” he announced Saturday on Twitter....

No sooner had he tweeted that he had a "fantastic" visit to Lock Haven on Feb. 1, Franklin's Ian Haynes was on social media again -- this...