Sep 2, 2005 By The 2 min read

Tonight will be a special occasion in Perryopolis. It will be the home opener for the Frazier Commodores, who will be looking for their second win as they host Fort Cherry, but prior to the game at 7 p.m., recognition will be paid to the Perry-Lower Tyrone team that played for the WPIAL Class B championship in 1960.

All members of that team are asked to report to the field at the Frazier football stadium at 6:45 p.m.

It has been 45 years since the Commodores, then coached by Don Mains, battled their way to the Alley-Fay-West (Allegheny-Fayette-Westmoreland) championship and into the WPIAL final.

The season started with a 20-0 loss to Bellmar, then came a winning run of seven games as the Commodores defeated West Greene, 21-13; Ellsworth, 20-12; Snowden, 7-0; Bentleyville, 26-0; West Newton, 34-12; East Huntingdon, 25-7; and South Huntingdon, 27-0.

This moved P-LT to the WPIAL championship game, where it fell to Washington Township, 26-0. Washington later joined with Vandergrift to form the Kiski Area School District.

The Commodores that year posted three shutouts and outscored the opposition 160 to 90.

Of those nine teams on the schedule, none exist any longer in the name of the district they represented at the time these games were played.

Perry-Lower Tyrone is now known as Frazier, and all the teams it played that year have been absorbed into jointures with other districts.