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1954
Oilers
Opponents
Date
Opponent
R
Score
Rush
Pass
Total
Rush
Pass
Total
Sept. 10
Titusville
T
  0-  0
149
    0
149
  96
  81
177
Sept. 17
Grove City
L
  0-33
  94
  70
164
239
  21
260
Sept. 24
Greenville
L
13-39
143
  na
  na
210
  na
  na
Oct. 1
Warren
L
  7-34
128
  69
197
330
  13
343
Oct. 18
Meadville
L
  7-19
  na
  na
  na
  na
  na
  na
Oct. 22
Millcreek
T
13-13
  na
  na
  na
  na
  na
  na
Oct. 29
Hickory
L
  7-25
  na
  na
215
  na
  na
  98
Nov. 5
Corry
L
13-26
  na
  na
179
  na
  na
202
Nov. 12
Franklin
W
27-  7
296
    0
296
  71
102
173

Notes and Stats

Boyd Enos caught 3 touchdown passes, two covering 58 and 74 yards from Paul Wood, and the other covering 33 from Charlie Winger...Enos' 74-yard TD against Hickory was the Oilers' first scoring pass since 1952 against Millcreek when Chuck Carabell caught a 19-yarder from Ken Fay...Oil City led Warren, 7-6, at halftime...The Oilers were on the 6-inch line when the game ended against Millcreek...

Winger, erstwhile state champion middle distance runner, and Wood each scored two TDs and led a 296-yard rushing attack in the win over Franklin...They each scored 3 TDs on the season...Dave Schoch ran 42 yards for a touchdown against Greenville...

But the most spectacular big-gainer of the season was by Wood, a 260-pounder who made the all-section team as a tackle. His 48-yard rumble to the 13 set up te Oilers first TD against Franklin...

Wrote Derrick sports editor Jim Dippel, "(Wood) literally plowed a path downfield. Every man, woman and child in the stands jumped to his feet as one would-be tackler after another bounced off the seemingly impregnable Wood."

Continued Dippel, "A faster man, cleared of his tacklers as Wood was at one time, would have gone all the way. But, of course, a faster man wouldn't have gotten that far in the first place. Three Knights finally caught up with him on the Franklin 13 yard line and in desperation pulled him out of bounds."

Franklin had two players, Jim Shilliday and Bill McCullough, lead the Section 2 all-star voting; Oil City didn't have anyone make the first team. Dippel asked coach John Kaufman what he did to get his winless team up for the Knights. Kaufman said, "It's not what I did, it's what they did.

"I just stood there and yelled."

All-Section 2

Second team -- E Boyd Enos, T Paul Wood, T Jack Pearson, B Charlie Winger

Honorable mention -- E Bob Rivar, G Marvin Metzinger