As a polygamist community in Mohave County reinvents itself, Colorado City High football team is caught in crossfire of a measles outbreak

COLORADO CITY – Once every November, as the sun sets in the west, it casts an especially warm glow across the El Capitan High School football field.

The residents of Colorado City, a town long known for its polygamist community and its notorious leader Warren Jeffs, gather en masse into the aging grandstands to watch the most popular sporting event of the year: the rivalry game between Arizona’s El Capitan Eagles and Utah’s Water Canyon High School Wildcats.