Editor's note: It was nearly a year ago when E-ticket went to northern Alaska to tell the story of the Barrow Whalers, the first Arctic high school football team in America. (Read the Emmy-award winning piece: Part 1: The Real Frozen Tundra and Part 2: On Top Of The World.) Using telephone poles for benches, sprinkler pipes for goalposts and flour to line their rock-strewn permafrost field, the Whalers finished their inaugural season 1-5, including an improbable victory against Sitka in the home ...

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