Coach Boone's Leadership In Remember The Titans

Coach Boone described how the commitment of the young soldiers and the leadership of the historical Battle of Gettysburg not only influenced and inspired Abraham Lincoln but appears to be a turning point for the 1971 Titan football team from T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. He told them this battle was fought for them and told them that over one hundred years later they are still faced with the same battle as those whose blood was shed for them. Boone reminded them, “You don’t have to like each other, but you will respect each other” (Remember the Titans). Boones’ leadership gave purpose and direction to the team. At first, Boone did not allow the players or coaches to have any sense of power. He recognized the outside …show more content…
Coach Boone helped the players to know and understand the values of each of his teammates, as he required during training camp. Boone pairs black players with white players and instructs them to learn about each other. This idea is met with a lot of fighting, but black linebacker Julius Campbell and stubborn white All-American Gerry Bertier end up getting a strong bond through Boone's heavy discipline. Allowing them to become leaders among their peers. Boone teaches them that they can build their strengths and look beyond their differences when they work …show more content…
The two coaches do not see eye-to-eye on the best way to manage the team. Boone is a charismatic leader with a brutal, military-style approach to coaching. He believes in breaking the players down and then re-building them as a team. Yoast is more laid-back and conservative and feels Boone is pushing the players too hard. This difference in coaching styles leads to several confrontations between the two coaches and between the players.
The two coaches bridge more than their team, they also eventually unite them families. A good example of this is seen through Coach Yoast’s daughter Sheryl, played by Hayden Panettiere, as she boldly claimed, “People say that it can’t work, black and white. Here, we make it work every day. We still have our disagreements, of course, but before we reach for hate, always, always, we remember the Titans” (Remember the Titans). A group of young men that over time began to see each person having value accomplished things much greater than the state championship, they helped to transform a whole community. In the locker room a player states – “I am not perfect, no one on this team is perfect, but we as a team have a perfect record. This team is perfect” (Remember the