This is the last in a series of articles profiling the 2015 inductees into the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame.BUTLER TWP — Determination, talent and physicality.Those three elements combined to make the 1963 Butler High School football team one of the best to ever play in Butler County.“That team had a lot of size and strength,” retired Butler coach Art Bernardi recalled. “The only team that could have compared to us that way in that season was New Castle.”The Golden Tornado defeated New Castle, 27-6, to end a 9-0 regular season — Butler’s first perfect regular campaign since 1950. The Tornado dropped the WPIAL championship game to West Mifflin, 12-6.That Butler team, which sent more than 12 players on to major college football, will be recognized at the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame’s 50th annual banquet Saturday at the Butler Days Inn.Bernardi and Tom McGrath, an offensive lineman and team captain, will speak on behalf of the team at the banquet.“I’m just going to say a few words and hand it over to Tom,” Bernardi said. “I could talk for hours about those guys.“They had a great attitude toward the game and toward sports in general.”Most of the football players played other sports at Butler as well. Bernardi said he has a picture of four Tornado players preparing to grab a rebound in basketball “and they were all football guys.”Butler averaged 27 points per game in 1963 and scored at least three touchdowns in every regular season game except one — a 12-0 victory over Sharon. Har-Brack and Beaver Falls were the only opponents to score more than 13 points against the Tornado.Terry Hanratty, Butler’s starting safety that season as Mike Zaccari was the returning starter at quarterback, intercepted 11 passes.He was primed to pick off a 12th against West Mifflin in the title game, but was inadvertently bumped out of the play by a teammate.The play occurred in the Butler end zone.“I was going 100 yards the other way easy,” Hanratty said two years ago. “It was going to be my easiest interception of the year.”While Butler’s 1963 season ended in disappointment, its dominance could not be ignored.Zaccari attempted only 37 passes all season. Fullback Bill Rettig became the first Tornado player to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. He combined with halfback Mike Guinta to score 24 touchdowns that year.Butler averaged 258 yards rushing per game to the opposition’s 91. And the Tornado intercepted 18 passes while allowing only 34 completions all season.Bernardi went to his two-platoon system that season “because we had so many quality players.”Dick Quigley was a 6-foot-5, 245-pound tight end who went on to Alabama. McGrath was 6-3, 230. Rich and Ron Saul were sophomore starters on that team. Rettig was a 212-pound fullback.“For that era, our physical size was impressive,” Bernardi said.Paul “Red” Uram was an assistant coach on that team. Hanratty joined him in winning Super Bowls with the Steelers years later.The Saul brothers went on to Michigan State, center Bill Quigley to North Carolina, tackles Frank Shipkowski and Chuck Esper to Wyoming and Rutgers, respectively.The list went on and on.“You never knew who (prominent college coaches) was going to show up at one of our games,” Hanratty said. “They all used to come around here.”The 1963 Butler football team is the fourth team to be honored by the BCSHOF. Others were the undefeated 1950 Butler football team, the PIAA champion 2000 Karns City girls basketball team and the state champion 1995 Seneca Valley baseball team.Tickets for the Hall of Fame dinner are $30 in advance, $35 at the door. Tickets are available at Bill’s Beer Barn and Snack-N-Pack in Butler, Moses Jewelers at the Clearview Mall, Parkers Appliance in Chicora and Saxonburg Drug.