When the Thomas Jefferson High School football team advanced to the WPIAL Class 4A semifinals with a win over Greater Latrobe, their head coach Bill Cherpak moved into elite company among WPIAL football coaches.
Read more...Among the many items that the Donora Historical Society has in its collection are over 125 basketball and football games of Mon Valley teams from 1955 to 1979. They are original 16mm films that are mostly converted to DVD (104 out of 125). We launched the project in 2015 to start to transfer the films to DVD to not only get them in a usable format to be added to our artifact collection and our presentation offerings, but to get these games in the hands of the players that played in them some 35 to 65 years ago. Some games feature extensive footage of parent’s nights, football coaches, cheerleaders and bands. Most games sell for $25/game plus S&H.
