After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
Keywords:
High school
Friendship
Sports
Ku klux klan
Politics
American football
1970s
Trainer
Race politics
Civil rights
Apartheid
Racial segregation
Based on true story
Racist
High school sports
Coaction
Racial tension
Xenophobia
Virginia
Head coach
Movie tag line: "History is written by the winners."
Character: Coach Herman Boone
Character: Coach Bill Yoast
Character: Julius Campbell
Character: Gerry Bertier
Character: Petey Jones