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1927

Date
Opponent
R
Score
Sept. 24
New Castle
L
  6-39
Oct. 1
Falls Creek
W
57-12
Oct. 8
East Brady
L
  7-19
Oct. 15
Oil City
W
14-13
Oct. 22
Sandy Lake
W
92-12
Oct. 29
Greenville
L
14-18
Nov. 5
Titusville
T
  6-  6
Nov. 11
Meadville
L
  7-13
Nov. 19
Clarion Normal
L
  0-26
Nov. 24
Oil City
W
  7-  0

Notes and Stats

The highlight of the season, obviously, was beating Oil City twice -- they were the only two scores listed in the yearbook...Red Foster, who missed four extra points against Falls Creek, made both in the first game against the Oilers, and that was the difference...Flash McClintock scored both TDs on runs of 45 and 80 yards...The second game was scoreless until the fourth quarter when Ted Yeager returned an interception 51 yards for a touchdown...The News-Herald wrote, "He shot down the field like a maddened bull and now someone will surely carve his name in Franklin's hall of fame."...

McClintock, whose given name was Miller and who also went by "Bus," scored 17 TDs for the Knights, apparently a record that stood until Red Law broke it in 1966...It might have been more, but McClintock played only in the second half against Clarion Normal and was limited to one carry...He scored on long runs all season; only trouble was rushing stats weren't kept then...McClintock scored 5 TDs against Falls Creek and four against Sandy Lake...He had 80-yard runs for TDs against Falls Creek, Oil City and Greenville...

The write-up in TNH for the Sandy Lake game was short, and only those who scored TDs and not the length of them were listed, although an 85-yard kickoff return by McClintock was mentioned...McClintock ran 68 yards to the 5 and scored on the next play for the Nursery's only TD against Titusville...

The Nursery led Meadville 7-0 on McClintock's 85-yard fumble return, but Harry Dennison scored twice after that and the Bulldogs won the Crawford/Venango title...Dennison caught a 10-yard pass with 1:10 left to win the game...

McClintock scored 103 points on the season...Smiley scored four TDs and Richardson added three...Foster kicked eight extra points...

Meadville Republican All-Crawford/Venango

First team -- T Valeski, C Benton, QB Flash McClintock

Second team -- G Brown, E Kenny Marwood, FB Red Foster