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American high school, Barrow High (the Whalers). The Whal- ers sometimes fly 500 miles for road games and were the sub- ject of a film, Touchdown on the Tundra . Hawaii, the 50th state, has produced a Heisman Trophy winner (Marcus Mariota) and a Heisman runner-up (Manti

T’eo) in recent years. High school football has spread to American territories in the Pacific such as Guam and Samoa. High school football has extended to all four corners of the United States and beyond. Turkey Bowls The first football game in the United States was be- tween a pair of New Jersey colleges, Princeton and Rutgers, in November of 1869. Six years earlier, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln had fixed the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day on the calendar. It was not long before high schools set

Manti T’eo crossed the ocean from Hawaii to star at Notre Dame and then join the NFL’s San Diego Chargers.

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