One Great Game: Two Teams, Two Dreams, in the First Ever National Championship High School Football Game (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743446228)

For more than a century, no Number 1 and Number 2 high schoolfootball team had ever met -- until October 6, 2001
One Great Game
This is the story of two teams -- Concord De La Salle, a private Catholic school in an upscale Northern California suburb, and Long Beach Poly, a proud public institution from a blue-collar SoCal seaport -- striving to achieve the same goal: the all-American dream.
In this supercharged account of the first-ever national high-school championship game, acclaimed sports journalist -- and former Poly varsity football player -- Don Wallace goes out onto the field and straight into the heart of each team. One Great Game offers a rare look at the world of young-adult sportsmanship, featuring up-close and personal interviews with the team players and their families, coaches and cheerleaders, rabid fans and sworn enemies. The result is a powerful piece of sports literature in the tradition of the classic Friday Night Lights. More than a book about football, One Great Game is an engaging cultural history about twenty-first-century American life.

Author: Don Wallace
ISBN-10: 0743446224
ISBN-13: 9780743446228
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2005
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.54w x 0.77d