Sark Arslanian

Sarkis "Sark" Arslanian (February 4, 1924 – December 11, 2016) was an American college football coach.

Beginning in 1955, Arslanian spent ten seasons as the football coach at Dixie Junior College.

He served as the head coach at Weber State College from 1965 to 1972 and at Colorado State University from 1973 to 1981, compiling a career college football head coaching record of .560.

In 1965, he assumed the same position at Weber State College in the Big Sky Conference, where he coached through 1972 and was the winningest coach in school history.

He left for Colorado State University in the

Western Athletic Conference (WAC); his 1977 CSU team was one of the most successful in school history, finishing 9–2–1 and receiving votes in the Associated Press Top 20 rankings.

He stayed at Colorado State until October 1981.

After a long and successful career as a football coach at the collegiate and professional levels, he helped establish a winning tradition at Pine View High School in St. George, Utah.

After a bypass surgery, he resigned as head coach of Pine View and began coaching eighth graders at Pine View Middle School.

His son is Dave Arslanian, who later coached at Weber State from 1989 to 1997, assisted by his brother Paul Arslanian.

As of 2007, Arslanian was the oldest active football coach in the United States.

An Armenian-American, Arslanian once traveled to Armenia to establish an American football league in his ancestral country.

Born in Fresno, California, Arslanian served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

On September 14, 2013, the field at Hansen Stadium on the campus of Dixie State University was named Sark Arslanian Field.

He died on December 11, 2016, at the age of 92.