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Champion OCHS Team Was UndefeatedThirty years ago the Oil City high school basketball team, coached by fhe ite Wilbert Magee, finished the season unbeaten in 13 games — a feat which has never been equaled by a Blue and White cage combine.The 1016 Oilers, headed by JackThe RecordI486 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-Oii City 37 ....... Brookville 28Oil City 30 ....... Titusville 22Oil City 70 Greenville 21Oil City 23 Clarion 20Oil City 55 Titusville 14Cleaves, considered by many Oil City 32.....Ford City 16 . _ „ , ,the greatest athlete ever to wear oil City Hi Sandy Lkke 15 ba5ketba11 *eam was presented athe Oil City high colors, was un- qjj city 23 Sandy Lake 13 championship banner, shown ill thedisputed claim to the scholastic ] ou City 35 Clarion 2*7basketbaU championship of north-j oil City 16 Kittanning 14Oil City 28 . New Bethlehem 25ball gym of it# own.Following their final victory of the season over Kittanning, thewestern Pennsylvania.The court machine might have Oil City 26 . Sewlekley 23gone on to win the state crown Oil City 30 Kittanning 24that year if the present elimina- Recapitulation; Won 13, lost 0;tion playoff system had been in points scored, 486; Opponents'operation then, Hovever, in those; points, 264 days there were no playoffs and schools confined their play with other schools in their own rection.c, . , , coach and popular local Y. M. C. A.Shown m the above photo are ... , , I j j., . - . . « . official who died more than a dec-the follow,„g. left to riuht: front androw. ^ndy Harper, now w,th Bache his « An killedand Co. here; Jack Cleaves, who, an crash in France inbackground of the above photograph. In presenting the banner to the team, J. Martin of the school board said:‘ Presented to the Oil City high school basketball team. Their splendid record has gained for them the reputati n of being the fastest high school team that ha# ever come before the City of Opportun-in .^“‘5 :..,^. , , i KV' and ‘hey ar« J“*«y entitled to1 1 v re a . ca|je(j ^ champion* of northwestern Pennsylvania.after World War I ended gainedauT‘ 6 the earlv lt;0’sgreat fame els an all-arcund athlete yat Princeton, and Howard Alex- Seep and Cleaves were the start-ander, now with General Motors forward# on this great Oilerin New York City five Alexander jumped at center,, t while A. Harper and Lowers wereIn the back row, left to right, —....j.r f t the guards,e Phil Low’ers, now living in;Two of Oil City’s victories thatHAHN KNOCKED OUTarPittsburgh; Granville Lane, tne \ ‘ 0 ^student manager who now reside# seas-n were over Clarion, consid- and in Texas; Edward “Pat” Harper. «red of school'se«ni-finatliving Lane, thedeceased brother of Andy Harper;Dale Lash, now’ on the coaching staff at Springfield college, Springfield, Maes.; Ted Stevenson, em- Ford City and Sandy LakeDec. 17, 1921.—Earl Krotzer ofMeadville knocked out youngHahn of Oil City In the eighthround of their scheduled 10-roundbout, in the first boxing show ofthe season put on by Fred HerscheCunningham. In the. Battling Snyder of Oil basketball teams in this section, City scored a TKO over young1 ployed now as an insurance manat thaf time. One-sided victories William# of Harrisburg. Young Wf,re ~°™d~°Vei _T,it«8Vil1*’ ,Green I Fowski and John Spear, both localboys, fought a good four-round The locals amassed a total of draw’.
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Oil City Derrick
Oil City, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Sep 11, 1946
Page 98
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Penny W.
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