Herman Boone

allowing for their parents hatred to continue living on in them. An example from the movie is when the team is taken to a football camp for pre conditioning and all of the players are together. Some of the players end up fighting each other and Coach Boone decides that each player must get to know a player of the opposite race every day until…

represents the story of the newly integrated T.C. Williams High School and its undefeated football team that won the 1971 Virginia State AAA Championship. Already at a boiling point, racial tensions threaten to erupt when the school board names Herman Boone, an African American, as head coach, passing over local favorite Bill Yoast, who is white. In the film, it appears as though federal mandate forced two schools, one white and one black, to consolidate, which created the Alexandria school in…

based on a true story about a racially-diverse football team, their new African-American coach, and different traditions each player comes to learn throughout the movie. The Titans players did not like Coach Yost being replaced by Herman Boone, a black man. Coach Boone did not let these ill feelings thwart him, but instead tried his best to ensure the team was mixed at all times. His teachings included the football players sitting on the bus next to a different race, staying in the same room…