| Summary: | Play Football In "Ice Bowl": Eskimo Teams Will Have Championship Contest Of Their Own. PLAY FOOTBALL IN "ICE BOWL" Eskimo Teams Will Have Championship Contest of Their Own. KING ISLAND, Via Teller, Alaska, Dec. 1. (/P)—The Eskimo league will furnish the cracked ice for the nation's football cocktail New Year's day. Emulating the rose, cotton, sugar, orange and whatnot bowls, the athletic cliff dwellers of bleak King island, off the frigid coast of Alaska, are having regular turnouts for an "ice bowl" game for the championship of Bering sea. And they will have their yells, too. One goes like this: "Oo-ghee-book, oo-ghee-book, "Sis-boom-bah! "Oo-ghee-book, oo-ghee-book, "Rah, rah, rah." Oo-ghee-book is.the way you say King Island in Eskimo. Use Notre Dame Style. Two teams of men and boys are being drilled in the rudiments of the Notre Dame system by Coach Ken Chisholm, former Santa Clara grid player and member of the Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard's arctic expedition. But there is really a serious idea about the whole thing. Father Hubbard and his party believe athletics will aid the natives in bearing up against pulmonary and other ailments to which they are susceptible. So Chisholm is teaching football on the "ice bowl" in front of the village's stilt-supported dwellings, and via "skull practice," which includes viewing motion pictures of important games played in the United States. Even Learn Boxing. And Ed Levin, one-time Santa Clara boxer, is teaching young King island to put up its dukes and fight. Both men also are instructing the Eskimos in corrective physical culture exercises. Instead of beefsteaks and spinach at the training table, the Eskimos dine on seal and walrus and "Eskimo lettuce" (grass), with auks' eggs and a bit of polar bear.
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