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1959 Arizona State–Flagstaff Lumberjacks football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ108933794 ↗
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The 1959 Arizona State–Flagstaff Lumberjacks football team was an American football team that represented Arizona State College at Flagstaff (now known as Northern Arizona University) in the Frontier Conference during the 1959 NAIA football season. In their fourth year under head coach Max Spilsbury, the Lumberjacks compiled a 6–2–1 record, won the Frontier Conference championship, and were outscored by a total of 142 to 135.

The team played its home games at Lumberjack Stadium in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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“1959 Arizona State–Flagstaff Lumberjacks football team” enters the record as american college football season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Arizona, State and Flagstaff can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1959 Arizona State–Flagstaff Lumberjacks football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.