Paul Beals is the first Franklin player to make first team all-state in football. And , said Franklin coach Jim McCullough, "They couldn't have waited for a better boy.'' Beals, a 5-10, 170-pound guard, was named to the Associated Press first team in 1960. Two teammates also were picked to the squad. Tackle Ron Baughman was named to the third team and center Vince Witherup received an honorable mention. McCullough called the three along with tackle Tom Sloss and guard Walt Miller "possibly the best high school line in the state." All five were named to the Section 2 first team. The five allowed the Knights to produce three straight games in which two running backs gained 100 yards or more. Fred Yetka (119 yards) and quarterback Bill Beith (109) first did it against Meadville. Then it was Jack Schosser (221) and Yetka performing the feat against Corry. The Knights rolled up 381 yards rushing against the Beavers, prompting McCullough to declare, "(That) was probably the greatest game I've ever seen by a high school line."  (It should be noted that George Case was playing in place of Sloss at tackle that game.) Schosser (176) and Yetka (119) did it again the next week against Ford City. Considered by many to be the best football player in Section 2,  Beals was by far the smallest player on the AP's first team line. And possibly the most unusual. He was an A student -- tops in his class of 250 who had his eye on Penn State and scholarship feelers from Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth and Dayton. The son of Dr. and Mrs. Norman K. Beals of Miller Park, Beals was also an accomplished violinist and pianist. His most famous teammate on the first team was Beaver Falls' Joe Namath, who shared quarterback with Fred Mazurek, who later starred at Pitt. Running back COMs Iacavazzi later starred for Princeton. Only one vote separated Namath and Mazurek in the voting. One of Baughman's teammates on the third team, incidentally, was Erie Tech's Fred Biletnikoff, later to become a Hall of Fame receiver  for the Oakland Raiders. Biletnikoff was picked as a running back. Here's a look at the 1960 AP all-state first team: Ends -- Kirk Kressler (6-2, 179) Berwick and Tom Krzemienski (6-2, 195)  Beaver Falls Tackles -- Rich Arrington (6-0, 210) Erie East and Ray Rissmilller (6-4, 218) Georgia Guards -- Don Croftcheck (6-2, 215), Redstone and Paul Beals (5-10, 170) Franklin Center -- Joe Demelfi (5-11, 204) Berwick Quarterbacks -- Joe Namath (6-1, 170) Beaver Falls and Fred Mazurek (5-11, 195) Redstone Running backs -- Hal Yost (6-1,c185) Lock Haven, Cosmo Iacavazzi (5-11, 185) Yale and Jeff Marsh (5-8, 160) Nazareth