1898
Date	Opponent	R	Score
Oct. 29	Titusville	W	10-  5

1897
Date	Opponent	R	Score
Oct. 2	Franklin	T	0-  0
Oct. 27	Titusville	L	0-14
Nov. 6	Franklin	W	14-  0
Nov. 23	Allegheny College	L	2-  4

1896
Date	Opponent	R	Score
Oct. 31	Franklin	L	6-  8
Nov. 13	Franklin	L	0-10
	Oil City YMCA	L	6-12

Notes and Stats The 1896 opener was played Oct. 31 at Franklin. That might have been Oil City's first game ever...Hall and Jobson scored touchdowns for Franklin; Bassett hit paydirt for the Oilers, and Hayes kicked the goal...That second game in 1896 was played at the Sedgwick grounds...The high school team played the Y on Thanksgivng Day... Oil City and Franklin also kicked off the 1897 season, this game at Sedgwick...The Oilers came the closest to scoring, getting inside the Franklin 1-foot line...The Blizzard reported, "Both sides were quite evenly matched, but the tackle work of the Oil City team was the most scientific"...The Oiler lineup: Burns and Stapleton at ends, Garrett and Breene at tackles, Mount and Kern at guards, James at center and Fleming, Hulings, Cullis and Bassett in the backfield... The Blizzard has this to say about the Oilers' 14-0 victory over Franklin on Nov. 6, "What would have been the feature of the game was ruled out by the referee. In the second half Bassett secured the ball from Franklin on a flunk (sic) and ran nearly half the length of the field. In the first subsequent scrimmage Hulings carried the ball a similar distance and over the line. The referee then decided that the ball had belonged to Franklin in the first instance, but while the boys made nothing by it, it was a pretty piece of football"... The Oilers played Titusville on Oct. 29, 1898, before 200 fans at the Sedgwick Grounds...They were scheduled to open the season against Allegheny College on Oct. 22, but the Gators canceled because it was supposed to rain, and if it did, there wouldn't be a big crowd... There was no account of who scored the TDs against Titusville, but the Blizzard reported, "The game was interesting throughout, and the teams being quite evenly matched made the score small." Frank Berry captained the team, and Martin Roess was manager...Others who tried out were: Bassett, Loomis, Plante, Burns, O'Neill, Young, Shields, McLough, Kern, Stocker, Sherley and Wood... The Oilers were scheduled to play Franklin on Nov. 12, but on the afternoon of the game the Blizzard reported it "was declared off"...No other explanation was given...There was also supposed to be another game with Allegheny College on the 19th, but there was no report given, so who knows if it was ever played...I'm guessing it wasn't... Even though the Oilers didn't field a football team in 1899, it did have an inter-school track meet Oct. 7 at the Fairgrounds...It was sort of a decathlon, except there were 12 events...The top four point-winners were Roy Mallory, J. Verner Wrightnour, Fred James and Charles Simmons... Here are the winning times or distances for each event: 100-yard dash -- 11.75 220 -- 26.5 Half-mile -- 2:17 Mile -- 5:35 1-mile bicycle ride -- 3:02 5-mile bike ride -- 15:54 Shot -- 28 feet Pole vault -- 7-3 Hammer throw -- 68-2 Triple jump -- 36-10 Long jump -- 16-0 High jump -- 4-8