Smethport -  Back in 1922 three citizens of this community compared notes on a subject of mutual interest and decided
that something should be done about football at Smethport High School. This trio was composed of Alvie R. Livermore,
a dentist; E. A. Studholme, a banker; C. C. Choate, court records abstractor.
     These gentlemen formed a coaching alliance that directed the football fortunes at the local school for eight years. A
recent compilation of records reveals that their teams of the 1924-25-26-27 period rolled up the brightest single period of
football in the history of Smethport High.
     During the four seasons in question, 1924 to 1927, Smethport won 25 games, lost only 8 and tied 3. It is true that the
1934 eleven was beaten only once and that the 1942 team was undefeated, but there is no other local four-year winning
stretch to match the performance of the Smethport grid machines produced by three men who donated their time merely
because they enjoyed doing something for the high school youngsters.
     Their coaching regime was brought to an abrupt halt when the PIAA brought in the present rule that requires all high
school coaches in Pennsylvania to be full-time members of the faculty. They retired with an eight-year winning mark of 37
triumphs, 25 defeats and 3 ties which can be compared to a 24-year Smethport High grid chart that shows 78 wins, 88
defeats and 15 ties.
     In 1924, Smethport won six while losing only to St. Bonas Prep and Sheffield. The next year the locals lost to Grove
city and Emporium. Livermore, Studholme, and Choate all still living in this community agree that the 1926-27 teams were
the greatest they had.
     The ?26 eleven rolled up to 279 points against 56 opponents, Losing only to Olean and included a victory over Lock Have&
State Teachers. The ?27 outfit lost to Kane, Masten ark of Buffalo, and Wellsvillet
     Performing on these Smethport teams were such all-time Smethport stars as Leo and Jimmy Petruzzi, George VanDusen,
Silas Scott, John Hungerford, Robert Clark, Walter Schoolmaster, Guain McCoy, Bernard McDermott, C. Studholme  and
Newman.
     Smethport piled up 107 points in one game of the 1924 season and hit 93 against Bolivar in 1926. Against Ridgway in 1927,
Shorty Petruzzi, later a star at Tennessee, ran 95 yards for one touchdown.
     Eleven other men have been associated with fooball coaching at Smethport High since the Livermore-Studholme-choate
combination retired, but the four-year record of the old timers still tops the honor roll in the country seat.

 Big Football Years
At Smethport High
Here's how Smethport won 25, Lost 8
and tied 3 during the four-year Football
period of 1924-27.
(left side is Smethport score)

        1924
20        Eldred        6
13   Bradford J.V.  12
31        Eldred       13
107      Ridgway     13
0      St. Bona Prep.31
13     Emporium     12
44       Bolivar        0
0       Sheffield       10
         1925
93      Ulysses         0
31      Galeton        0
6     Emporium      24
14      St.Joe           0
0    Grove City      39
14      Bolivar        0 
26    Emporium     0
33    Sheffield        0
12 Port Allegany   12
          1926
55       Ulysses         0
32 Lock Haven tchs. 0
93       Bolivar         0
7        Olean            31
33     Wellsboro       0
7      Wellsville         6
0        Eldred           0
19   Coudersport      0
13   Johnsonburg      6
20   Port Allegany    13
          1927
6 Alfred Frosh        0
0         Kane            7
6 Buffalo Masten     12
31       Eldred          0
19      Ridgway        0
0     Wellsville         12
19   Coudersport      0
56  Little Valley       6
0 Port Allegany        0