Must See For 60's Students

Rating: 8/10 (21 January 2006)

I was at first hesitant to go see this movie after reading all the reviews and comparison to Remember the Titans, Coach Carter and other "We Shall Overcome" type movies. This movie was anything but. I was a college freshmen the year Texas Western won their NCAA title and remember watching the game at a beer bar not far from campus. If I recall correctly most everyone was for the Miners since I went to school north of the Mason Dixon line in the American West. I believe the movie portrays the sentiments and feeling of the times quite well and the soundtrack is most appropriate and highly contagious. True, liberties are taken with some of the history of actual occurrences but overall the movie is well acted and will not disappoint. I actually believe Coach Haskins was even a stronger personality than the movie portrays. The team players and actors are excellent. If you were a college student in the mid to late 60's this may well be the movie that you have been waiting to see, especially if you were into collegiate sports at that time.