When Football Was Played in an Internment Camp

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. Christopher Kamrani has the story of Topaz High, and how a group of high school kids used America's most beloved sport to show that they, too, were Americans.

Read Chris Kamrani's story about Topaz High:

https://theathletic.com/2162093/2020/10/30/topaz-internment-camp-football-team/?source=theleadpodcast

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