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Champion OCHS Team Was UndefeatedThirty years ago the Oil City high school basketball team, coached by fhe ibte Wilbert Magee, finished the season unbeaten in 13 games — a feat which has never been equaled by a Blue and White cage combine.The 1916 Oilers, headed by JackThe Record486 points in the 13 games, while holding their foes to a combined total of 264. All the games at hore were played on the Oil City Y. M. C. A. floor, since the high school at that time did not have a basket-Oil City 37 ....... Brookville 28Oil City 30 ....... Titusville 22Oil City 70 Greenville 21Oil City 23 Clarion 20Oil City 55 Titusville 14Cleaves, considered by many a Oil City 32 Ford City 16 athe greatest athlete ever to wear qjj City 81 Sandy Lke 18 basketball team was presented athe Oil City high colore, was un- qjj £|ty Sandy Lake 13 j championship banner, shown in thedisputed claim to the scholastic! ou City 35 Clarion 2*7ball gym of it* own.Following their final victory of the season over Kittanning, thebackground of the above photobasketball championship of northwestern Pennsylvania.Oil City 28New Bethlehem 25The court machine might have Oil City 26 . Sewickley 25gone on to win the state crow'n Oil City 30 Kittanning 24Oil ntv 1« Kittannincr 14 *raPh In Presenting the bannerOil City 16 Kittanning 14 ^ tlt;jam j Martta of th€ schooithat year if the present elimination playoff system had been in I p0ints »cored, operation then, Hovever, in those points. 264 days there were no playoffs andRecapitulation; Won 13, lost 0;486; Opponents'schools confined their play with . D1,. , ,' in Pittsburgh; Wilbert Magee, theother schools in their own reetion . , . , „ r. *iL , , . coach and popular local Y. M. C. A.Shown m the above photo are a,# . official who died more than a dec-a dwinp lAft tft ri^ht* frnrstthe following, left to right; front. . ,u T “. , *’ u xj u ade ago and Joe Seep, who withrow. £ndy Harper. now w.th Bach* « An killedand Co. here; Jack Cleaves, who , ^ ^o n i » rk i 'i n a rro?k i is TTro n/%* i nr j j ’ i in an airplane cra*h in France in after World W ar I ended gamed .great fame as an all-arsund athlete | e e y - sat Princeton, and Howard Alex- Seep and Cleaves were the start-ander, now with General Motors; ^*8 forwards on this great Oilerin New York Cityfive, Alexander jumped at center, . , . ... i while A. Harper and Lowers werei ', ,aCk ' 1 , °« righit’ ‘he guards.a Phi! T Jiwur? nntu nvi no* in °board said:“Presented to the Oil City high school basketball team. Their splendid record has gained for them the reputatin of being the fastest high school team that ha* ever come before the City of Opportunity, and they are justly entitled to be called the champions of northwestern Pennsylvania.”are Phil Lowers, now living in; Pittsburgh; Granville Lane, theTwo of Oil City’s victories thatstudent manager who now reside* ,season were over Clarion, consid-in Texas; Edward “Pat” Harper, deceased brother of Andy Harper;ered as one of the beef high schoolbasketball teams in this sectionDale Lash, now on the coaching at thaf time- One-sided victoriesstaff at Springfield college, Springfield, Maes.; Ted Stevenson, em-1 ployed now as an irwurance manw'ere scored over Titusville, Greenville, Ford City and Sandy Lake,The locals amassed a total of draw.HAHN KNOCKED OUTDec. 17, 1921.—Earl Krotzer of Meadville knocked out young Hahn of Oil City in the eighth round of their scheduled 10-round bout, in the first boxing show of the season put on by Fred Herscha and Cunningham. In thesemi-finau Battling Snyder of Oil City scored a TKO over young Williams of Harrisburg. Young Fowski and John Spear, both local boys, fought a good four-round
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Oil City Derrick
Oil City, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Sep 11, 1946
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