num_pages: 320
description: For more than a century, no Number 1 and Number 2 high schoolfootball team had ever met -- until October 6, 2001One Great GameThis 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 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.
language: English
title: One Great Game: Two Teams, Two Dreams, in the First Ever National Championship High School Football Game
titlecomplete: One Great Game: Two Teams, Two Dreams, in the First Ever National Championship High School Football Game
genres: Sports
ratings_count: 49
publisher: Atria