Thunder on the Tundra: Football Above the Arctic Circle - Softcover

Freedman, Lew

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9780882407425: Thunder on the Tundra: Football Above the Arctic Circle

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ISBN 10: 0882407422 ISBN 13: 9780882407425

Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books, 2008

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The Whalers are the only football team above the Arctic Circle: 330 north to be exact, a place with no grass, no trees, and plenty of permafrost. Of the 44 Eskimo, Tongan, Samoan, Asian-American, African-American and Caucasian teenagers who signed up for this experiment, only four had ever played organized football before. Seasoned journalist Lew Freedman captures this inspiring story.

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Thunder on the Tundra recounts the story of the most unusual high school football team in the United States, the Barrow Whalers. This human-interest sports story is so remarkable that it's been featured on ABC News Nightline, ESPN, YouTube, news and sports Web sites, and print publications throughout the nation.

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No one thought Barrow, Alaska, would be the ideal place for football. Eight hundred miles north of Anchorage, in a part of the country where grass won't grow and snow falls in July, Barrow is a town more likely to field a bowhead whale hunt than a football team.

But the kids wanted to play and the adults wanted to fight high dropout rates and substance abuse. So in a town where people need each other to survive and rely on each other in ways most communities never will, it turns out that Barrow was the right place after all.

Just ask "Big John," the 340-pound lineman, or Pili, the only girl on the team, or Albert Gerke, the quarterback who helped bring a sport seen only on TV into the lives of the 4,800 people who live in town. Their stories are the stories of the I�upiat Eskimos who have called Barrow home for thousands of years, who have worked hard for respect, who strive to integrate with mainstream American culture while keeping their traditions alive every day.

The community comes together around football. "It is not simply a football field," says a local, "but a field of dreams to inspire our children." Football has brought them closer, carrying with it the lesson that when they work together, Barrow can be the ideal place for anything. ire our children." Football has brought them closer, carrying with it the lesson that when they work together, Barrow can be the ideal place for anything.

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PublisherAlaska Northwest Books
Publication date2008
ISBN 10 0882407422
ISBN 13 9780882407425
BindingPaperback
Number of pages261
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