Tropic of football : the long and perilous journey of Samoans to the NFL /
"Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots—high school and youth travel program—are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming the most dispr...
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New York :
New Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- God's sweetest work
- The war and America come to Samoa
- Hawaiʻi : the North shore
- Al Lolotai, Charlie Ane, and Bob Apisa
- American Samoa in the 1960s
- Jesse Sapolu, Dick Tomey, and Faʻa Samoa
- Faʻa Kalifonia : Oceanside, California
- Kalifonia dreaming
- Back in Hawaiʻi : where football still matters
- David and Goliath
- The Samoan paradox.