Pennsylvania’s largest youth football league got a little smaller this week, as five Westmoreland County teams opted to leave and form a league of their own in the wake of a police investigation.
The Western Pennsylvania Youth Football League, in which the Westmoreland teams had been playing, is under scrutiny over the disappearance of money from the league’s bank account.
Youth football groups from Derry Area, Greater Latrobe, Greensburg Salem, Mt. Pleasant and Southmoreland sent a letter notifying parents that they opted to form the Keystone Foothills Football League. The groups are named for local school districts, but are not officially affiliated with them.