St. Regis High School may not be able to field a football team this year.

Only five players signed up to play for the six-man team with school starting in just a few weeks. Head coach, Jesse Allen said a new student may move to town and sign up, or someone may decide to play which would give them six players. Just enough to get the team together.

“We’ll play it week by week and hopefully by the time we get to the back-end of our schedule we’ll have one or more kids interested in participating,” he said.

St. Regis Tigers have had six players over the past two years. One of their key players, Brock Cantrell-Field who is a junior this year, recently moved to Missoula to play for Sentinel High School.

“It’s been rough for a while,” said Allen, “we didn’t have any freshman turn out this year which is hurting us and next year there are two eighth graders who would be eligible to play. But then we also have two seniors graduating.”

St. Regis’ football team has been lagging for several years. While the past two years saw just six players, they had eight players three years ago, and the year prior to that they had a coop with Alberton. September 9 was the first scheduled game of the season against White Sulphur Springs. If they can get a team together it will be a least four weeks before they play in a game, Allen said.