But, as I get into a little bit in the book, only three players on the Heart Mountain Eagles football team had ever played high school football before they were sent to camp. And then their children, when they got to high school age, a few of them started playing, especially in the Los Angeles area and in the San Francisco Bay area. There were some leagues up and down the West Coast of first-generation Japanese immigrants. Our co-host, Steve Goldstein spoke with Pearson about " The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America." Pearson began by explaining what really sparked his interest in telling the Wyoming-based history of Japanese high school football players.īRADFORD PEARSON: Most Japanese-Americans weren't involved in American football. Bradford Pearson covers some of that history in a new book, but he also writes about some specific young men. Some were able to leave to enlist in the military to help fight for a country that had decided to incarcerate them because they might be disloyal. They had to sell their businesses and land and live in the camps as World War II raged on. 7, 1941, tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans and others of Japanese descent were forced into internment camps in the West, including here in Arizona.
LAUREN GILGER: Not long after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japanese pilots on Dec. Bradford Pearson, author of "The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America."
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