[1] Since there was a large amount of hometown gambling on football games in 1902, this action resulted in all of the Franklin fans losing their bets to Oil City.
However while losing the game, Franklin did manage to hold Oil City's all star team to a 10–0 score.
After the team's loss against Oil City, Printz attended the first National Football League championship game between the Pittsburgh Stars and Philadelphia Athletics.
All of the money that was to be gambled on the 1903 football contests between Franklin and Oil City, sat in a bank escrow account and was later returned to the gamblers.
Many stars from the first NFL played for Franklin including Blondy Wallace and Eddie Wood who later became one of the first players to catch forward passes when they became legal in 1906.