Shamokin vs Mount Carmel Area Football Rivalry

Mount Carmel Area's all-game results page lists Shamokin with Mount Carmel's points first. The page repeats 1953 through 1976. Counting the first copy only, and leaving out games labeled Shamokin Lourdes, the Shamokin lines run from Oct. 28, 1893 through Oct. 31, 2014: 108 games, Mount Carmel 73, Shamokin 25, 10 ties. The school's series table, updated Dec. 4, 2008, is 67-25-10 in 102 games and matches this list through 2008. The archive has two Shamokin scores in 1968 and none in 1969.

The result column below is Shamokin's score first. The first line is Oct. 28, 1893, Shamokin 4, Mount Carmel 0. PA Football News says Shamokin won the 1995 Coal Bucket 15-0. The 2014 line, the last one on the archive, is Mount Carmel 33, Shamokin 32. The 1975, 1985, 1996, 2002, and 2014 season pages include that year's Mount Carmel score.

The 1985 page is the Sept. 20 game, Shamokin 21, Mount Carmel 0, with Mount Carmel away on the archive. PA Football News's Oct. 24, 2024 story quotes Rob Oshinskie, who played for Shamokin from 1985 through 1987. He said Shamokin had not won the game in 17 years, that 1985 was the first lead he remembered, and that the field was swarmed when the clock hit 00. He said Shamokin won it twice in his career. The archive has a second Shamokin win in 1987, 21-7, and a loss in 1986, 8-28. The 2014 page has the Oct. 31 game, Shamokin 32, Mount Carmel 33.

A later PA Football News story, written while Mount Carmel still held a 29-game winning streak, says Mount Carmel led 80-25-10 in 115 games. EasternPAFootball's 2025 recap says the teams had played 118 times dating to 1893. Those counts are not added to the 108-game archive. On3 lists three meetings since 2021, with Shamokin winning two, and says that list is not a complete history: 2021 Mount Carmel 49, Shamokin 21; 2024 Shamokin 21, Mount Carmel 0; 2025 Shamokin 26, Mount Carmel 21.

The 2025 game was at Kemp Memorial Stadium. EasternPAFootball's recap says Logan Steele recovered an onside kick late, hit Ryan Bickert for 38 yards, and Zakem Clinton scored from the 2 with 16 seconds left. Shamokin kept the Coal Bucket. The 2026 meeting is Oct. 30 at Kemp, kickoff 7.