When Football Was Played In An Internment Camp (Rebroadcast)
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government did something that it later apologized for and called a grave error: it rounded up and forcibly relocated tens of thousands of Japanese Americans, moving them to internment camps where they lived in extremely harsh conditions for years. Inside one of those camps, near Topaz, Utah, a high school football team was formed and surprised many of the local teams it played against. The Athletic's Christopher Kamrani brings us the story of Topaz High, where a group of high school kids used America's most beloved sport to show that they, too, were Americans. (This episode originally aired on November 6, 2020.)
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| 0:47.0 | Hey everyone, while we're all enjoying a little Thanksgiving vacation and maybe doing some reflecting, |
| 0:53.0 | we thought we would replay an episode that first aired last year around this time. |
| 0:58.0 | It's the incredible story of a high school football team that was formed back in the 1940s |
| 1:03.0 | inside a Japanese American internment camp. |
| 1:07.0 | Here's the story. Hope you enjoy. |
| 1:09.0 | Today we're going back in time nearly 80 years to a dusty desert in Central Utah. |
| 1:23.0 | That's where one of 10 internment camps was set up for Japanese Americans during World War II, |
| 1:29.0 | an act that the US has since acknowledged was shameful and wrong. |
| 1:33.0 | And inside that camp, there was a high school football team that played behind barbed wire |
| 1:39.0 | with armed soldiers pointing their guns inward, not outward. |
| 1:43.0 | The athletics Christopher Comrani has the story of Topaz High and how some of the kids there used football |
| 1:49.0 | to show that they belonged, that they were Americans. |
| 1:53.0 | They wrote in their high school yearbooks about how they wanted to show that athletically |
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