District 1’s wait for a state title in football will continue.

The District 1 football season came to an end on Saturday, as it has so often in recent years, at the hands of District 12 opposition. La Salle trounced North Penn, 49-14, in the Class 6A semifinals. Roman Catholic topped Springfield, 48-20, in the Class 5A Final Four.

It extends a wait since 2004 for the last District 1 state champion.

The district has had only one state finalist in the last decade, the 2019 Cheltenham team. The last PIAA football champion from District 1 remains a team that is no longer in District 1 – Lansdale Catholic, now a Catholic League member in District 12, in the 2004 Class AA tournament.

It hasn’t always been this way. From 1988 to 2007, the last season before the Catholic League joined the PIAA

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