Darryl Drake: Biography, Arizona Cardinals. Accessed July 10, 2015. "Drake was an All-State performer in football and an All-American in both track and field and basketball at Flaget (Louisville, KY) High School."
Talese, Gay. "Hot Shot Harper", The Courier-Journal, February 20, 1955. Accessed May 1, 2017. "But when Harper was at Flaget he was as anonymous as the mailman. 'I had a broken hand in my senior year at Flaget, you know,' Harper recalled."
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Legends of HS Football: Paul HornungArchived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, National High School Hall of Fame inductee, 1989. Accessed June 24, 2007. "Still a major football celebrity at age 69, Hornung was named Kentucky's top high school athlete during his senior year (1952–53) at Flaget High School in Louisville, Ky."
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McFadden, Robert D. "Dick Leitsch, Whose ‘Sip-In’ Was a Gay Rights Milestone, Dies at 83", The New York Times, June 22, 2018. Accessed November 14, 2020. "Dick was attracted to boys at St. Patrick’s elementary school. At Flaget High School, he was a voracious reader, worked in the library stacks and had several homosexual encounters, he said. He graduated in 1953."
Legends of HS Football: Paul HornungArchived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, National High School Hall of Fame inductee, 1989. Accessed June 24, 2007. "Still a major football celebrity at age 69, Hornung was named Kentucky's top high school athlete during his senior year (1952–53) at Flaget High School in Louisville, Ky."