The Winslow Bulldog football team will face its first opposition on Friday, Aug. 14, when they journey to St. Johns for a controlled scrimmage with the Redskins. Coaches will be on the field and able to give instructions to their players. Winslow hosted a football camp this summer, so that this will not actually be the first competition for the players.
The first regular season competition for Winslow will be at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27, when the junior varsity hosts the Snowflake jayvees.
The Bulldogs will begin their regular season varsity schedule on Saturday, Aug. 29, when they play Lake Havasu at 7:30 p.m. in the last of seven games in the Northern Arizona Skydome comprising the 2015 Kickoff Classic sponsored by Flagstaff High School and Northern Arizona University. Games will be played on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 28 and 29.
The Winslow junior varsity will host the Holbrook Roadrunner jayvees on Thursday, Sept. 3. All junior varsity games at Winslow are slated to start at 6 p.m. On Friday, Sept. 4, the Bulldogs will journey to Holbrook to meet the Roadrunner varsity.
The Winslow junior varsity will journey to Wickenburg on Sept. 10. The varsity will be at home on Sept. 11 to entertain the Wickenburg Wranglers for the first game of the season in Emil Nasser Stadium.
The jayvee Bulldogs will host the Coronado Dons on Sept. 17. The varsity Dons will be new to Winslow’s schedule on Sept. 18 when they host the Bulldogs at Scottsdale.
The Fountain Hills Falcons will come to Winslow on Friday, Sept. 25. The Bulldog junior varsity will go to Fountain Hills to meet the jayvee Falcons on Saturday, Sept. 26.
A pair of tough road games await the Bulldogs in early October. They will journey to Show Low to meet the always formidable Cougars on Oct. 2 and to Payson to meet the Longhorns on Oct. 9. Both of those games will be preceded by Thursday games in which the Winslow junior varsity meets the Show Low junior varsity on Oct. 1 and the Payson junior varsity on Oct. 8.
The Winslow junior varsity will travel to Page to meet the jayvees on Oct. 15. Back home on Friday, Oct 16, the Bulldogs will entertain the Page Sand Devils.
The Bulldogs’ playoff hopes will probably be determined by the last two games of the regular season when they journey to Lakeside to meet the always hard to beat Blue Ridge Yellowjackets on Oct. 23. The Winslow junior varsity will host Blue Ridge on Thursday, Oct. 22.
The last game for the junior varsity will be on Thursday, Oct. 29, at Snowflake against the jayvee Lobos. The regular season will end with a game in Winslow against the Bulldogs archrivals, the Lobos on Friday, Oct. 30.
