One Great Game: Two Teams, Two Dreams, in the First Ever National Championship High School Football Game

Wallace, Don

ISBN 10: 0743446224 / ISBN 13: 9780743446228

Published by Atria, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Great Game: Two Teams, Two Dreams, in the First Ever National Championship High School Football Game
• Publisher: Atria
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743446224
• ISBN 13: 9780743446228
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 12 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

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.