Description
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
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 09/13/2005
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.54w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780743446228
ISBN10: 0743446224
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Football
- Sports & Recreation | Essays
- Sports & Recreation | Cultural & Social Aspects
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
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 09/13/2005
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.54w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780743446228
ISBN10: 0743446224
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Football
- Sports & Recreation | Essays
- Sports & Recreation | Cultural & Social Aspects
About the Author
Don Wallace is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, and dozens of other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, he is the Michener Prize-winning author of the novels Hot Water and Log of Matthew Roving. He lives in New York City with his family