Does anybody have the records of Jackson and Oak Hill in Football.
The last time they played was in the mid -1970s around 1974 , when the game was put to rest as it should have been. By that time Jackson was so much bigger in size that it didnt make sense to keep it going.
Wellston is barely larger than Oak Hill. If one school is too small for Jackson to play, then they both are too small in my opinion. If you are going for big gates to make money for your sports teams, you should play both schools. Just depends on how you look at it. But it makes no sense to play one and not the other in my view. Play both, or neither.
Karl,
Love the quote!
NYB96… what does it matter if Jackson does’nt play OH???
Who cares !!! Jackson and Oak Hill are not going to play each other in the near future (next 5 years). The Oaks had a nice team in 2010 and so did the Ironmen. Good luck to the Oaks in 2011.
The following information is from the “Journal-Herald” from September 10, 1975 published prior to the last OHHS-JHS game.
Jackson and Oak Hill played 54 times over 52 years. The first game was in 1923 and the last in 1975. The overall record was 41-7-6 in favor of Jackson. The last Oak Hill win was a 20-0 victory in the snow in 1951. Jackson won 24 straight after that. The Oaks posted their seven wins in 1923, 1924, 1925 (twice), 1943, 1946 and 1951. The six ties were all 0-0. Jackson won 17 straight from 1926-1942.
Here are some scores and highlights.
1923 Oak Hill 6-0 in first ever game
1925 Oaks beat Jackson twice, 9-0 and 20-0. Jackson finished the season at 0-8.
1927 Jackson captures its first SEOAL championship and finishes 8-0-1. The Ironmen beat the Oaks twice, 33-0 and 57-0.
1930 Scorless tie.
1931 Jackson dedicates its new football field by blanking the Oaks 19-0.
1932 The powerhouse Jackson team, 10-0, crushes the Oaks 31-0.
1933 Oaks get revenge for last year by playing to a 0-0 tie.
1939 Jackson’s SEOAL championship team held to a 0-0 tie.
1940 It happens again. An SEOAL champion is held to a 0-0 tie by the Oaks.
1942 A field goal is the margin of victory as Jackson wins 3-0.
1943 Oak Hill finally snaps a 17 game winless streak by posting a 6-0 victory.
1946 Oaks win 7-0 before a home crowd of 2,000.
1947 Inexperienced JHS makes too many mistakes and must settle for 0-0 tie.
1949 Jackson slides by Oaks 19-12 before a crowd of 3,500.
1950 Undefeated Oak Hill beaten by Ironmen 6-0.
1951 Oaks win in a blaze of glory as they stampede Ironmen 20-0 in a game played on a snow covered Oak Hill field.
1953 Coach Gene Slaughter’s championship team is pushed to the limit by fiesty Oaks. Two fourth quarter touchdowns give Jackson a 25-12 win.
1954 It was Slaughter’s greatest year. However, he needed all his wits to coach Jackson to a 26-18 win. Oak Hill led 12-0 in the second quarter.
1955 Some say this was the greatest Jackson-Oak Hill game of all time. Slaughter had another championship bunch while the Oaks entered the game with an 8-0 record. Jackson emerged with a 13-12 victory although Oak Hill had the statiscal edge. This was the first game played on Thanksgiving day.
1956 It was another classic matchup on Thanksgiving. Jackson enter the game with an 8-1 record and another SEOAL championship. Oak Hill enter with a 6-2-1 record. On a bitterly cold afternoon, the Ironmen outscired the Oaks 18-13.
1958 The Ironmen capped off an 8-2 season with a hard earned 6-0 win over the Oaks.
1959 Another honey of a game on Thanksgiving. Jackson came into the game with a 7-2 record and an SEOAL championship. The Oaks came to Jackson with a 6-3 record and a fifty point rip of Fairland in their most recent game. Jackson won 26-12.
1960 It was the last time the teams would play on Thanksgiving Day. It was 14-14 at the half but Jackson went on to win 30-14.
1961 Jackson opens the season with a 40-0 win enroute to a 10-0 record.
1965 Jackson rolls 22-0.
1968 Jackson scores twice in the second half to win 16-12.
1969 Jackson wins 38-6.
1971 Jackson bombs the Oaks 65-0.
1972 Jackson wins 56-15.
1973 Ironmen win 20-0.