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From The Rock to Pullman: Joe Salave'a leads WSU's American Samoa recruiting pipeline

Five thousand miles away in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean sits American Samoa, home to nearly 56,000, a large majority of whom reside in Tutuila, the largest island in the territory. It's a place so small, so remote that you can only come and go on Friday and Monday, the only two days a flight from Honolulu lands at Pago Pago International Airport.

"The Rock," as it's collectively known, was rooted in rugby dating back to the early 1920s, shortly after the territory was annexed at the turn of the 20th century, and it wasn't until 1976 that American football was introduced.