This is the moving story of high school students in an isolated village at the top of Alaska starting a football team. Against long odds the Whalers had to practice and play in extreme conditions and travel hundreds of miles from home when they went on the ‘road, ‘ flying for each game.They ended their first season victorious, while maintaining their subsistence hunter-gather culture.
Table of Content
Ch 1:August Two-a-days, Ch 2:This is Barrow, Ch 3:Beginnings, Ch 4:Practive Makes Perfect, Ch 5:Are You Ready for Some Football?, Ch 6:Football on the Last Frontier, Ch 7:Field of Dreams, Ch 8:Do You Believe in Miracles?, Ch 9:Bad Old Days, Ch 10:It’s a Girl, Ch11:Wild Life, Ch:12 Monroe Catholic, Ch 13: The Whalers, Ch 14:Seasons, Ch 15:Getting Ready, Ch 16:The Ravens Are Ravenous, Ch17:Road Trip, Ch 18:Everyone Knows the Whalers, Ch 19:Houston Hospitality, Ch 20:Home on the Tundra Again, Ch 21:Making it All Work, Ch 22:Delta Force, Ch 23:The Pipeline Bowl, Ch 24:Pivotal Moment, Ch 25:The Longest and Last Road Trip, Ch 26 End Game.
About the author
Lew Freedman is a Chicago-based sportswriter who lived in Alaska for seventeen years. A prizewinning journalist, the former sports editor of the Anchorage Daily Newsis a graduate of Boston University, and earned a master’s degree from Alaska Pacific University. He is the author of thirty books about Alaska and sports. He lives in Bolingbrook, Illinois with his wife Debra.
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