Gasoline for touchdowns

For weeks local citizens wondered how the football players of high school and Osceola Indians drove into the filling station, got their gas tanks filled, thanked the attendants and merrily drove on, rejoicing over the fact they did not have to pay for it.

Clifford Carr and Frank Tabler of Tabler’s oil station furnished Osceola football players with over fifty gallons of Conoco gasoline during the football season. All that was required by the players was to make a touchdown. Each touchdown entitled them to five gallons of gasoline.

Football players Rarick, McQuern and Switzer received enough gasoline to take them beyond Chicago, while Tillotson and Davenport and one or two others had the pleasure of receiving enough to take them to warmer climates.

The Tabler Oil Company would again adopt the policy the next year hoping Osceola players would receive enough gasoline for round trip transportation.

(The Tabler Oil station was located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Highways 34 and 69. Four Corners.) -1930