High School Football
The ASAA sanctions high school football at the 3A “small school” and 4A “large school” classifications. Some other teams play independent from the 3A and 4A classifications and cannot participate at either state tournament.
Each year. Alaska holds the first high school game in the nation, held usually around mid-August during summer vacation. Because of this, and the relatively short eight game season, ASAA state championship football games are played earlier than elsewhere as well, with tournament games taking place in mid-to-late October.
Currently, 15 teams play at the 4A classification in the Cook Inlet and Railbelt conferences, while 14 teams play at the 3A classification in the Northern Lights and Greatland conferences.
The Whalers of Barrow High School are the northern-most high school football team in the United States.
Read more about this topic: Alaska School Activities Association
Famous quotes containing the words high, school and/or football:
“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)