Sinagua Football

10/29/2025

This page is still going. It is not dead. In fact, expect an update on the Mustang History book this offseason.

05/16/2021

Who has information on this year's reunion schedule? This is 2021, so I suppose, for the sake of Sinagua Football, I'd be asking for information for the classes of 1991 (30th), 1996 (25th), and 2001 (20th)

10/02/2020

Flagcoco published its first football preview magazine this morning, just in time for tomorrow's doubleheader at Cromer Stadium.

When I started Flagcoco and was curious about Sinagua Football, I wrote a bad history of the program on flagcoco.com. After looking through Jim Stalnaker's stat books and the yearbooks and the Daily Sun articles, I realized that I needed to not just rewrite that history, but to change the local narrative.

So I did. And it's in the preview.

https://www.flipsnack.com/flagcoco/2020-football-preview.html

08/19/2020

Here's something the Mustang folks will get a kick out of. This is from the upcoming all-football preview, which will be published in late-September. It will be the first time in 25 years we'll have CITY RECORDS published. You'll be surprised how many Mustangs will be in the record book.

08/19/2020

I've been doing a lot of Flagcoco stuff this summer. Last week I published the second edition of Coconino's Black Book. I'm busting my butt to get the online edition of Bob Oberhardt's Eagles on the Mountain published by the end of the month. Since the first game of the upcoming high school season has been pushed back to October 2, I'll have a month to do our first all-football preview. After that, I'll have no more excuses and can devote time to the Sinagua Football project.

To give you some idea of what it will look like, here's this year's Black Book.

A history of Coconino Varsity Football, as told through narrative, statistics, and images

03/22/2020

The 1984 Flagstaff Eagles were the last team from Flag to win the football state championship.

The team that's gotten the closest since then in this one: the 1998 Sinagua Mustangs.

That's a team that went 11-2. After a 31-0 loss to Agua Fria in the opener, the Mustangs went on a tear, sweeping the rest of the regular season and heading into the playoffs with a 9-1 record. After a solid 25-14 against Mountain View in the first round, they shocked the state with a 44-14 throttling of top-ranked Cactus and earned a place in the 4A semifinals, where they ultimately lost to that same Agua Fria team, 20-6.

No team from Flag High or Coconino has gotten out of the second round since '84.

02/16/2020

If we're going to put together a book about a football team, especially a team that hasn't hit the gridiron in a decade, details are essential. I have stat books and access to pictures, and there will be a handful of big-picture stories written, but to make this something the Sinagua world can appreciate, there's a handful of things we need.

Like, the fight song.

That's why I've put this page together. I'll work such matters from my side, but if you know Sinagua's fight song, or anything else that might be of interest to this project, this is the page for sharing it.