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One Great Game

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

By: Don Wallace

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Paperback | 13 September 2005 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"[E]njoyable....Wallace gives an evenhanded account while conveying the excitement the game created."
-- Sports Illustrated

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The Clash
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Minor Miracles
Something in the Water
Calm Before the Storm
Sour Rhubarb
Precious Blood
Fall
Minority Rules
The Shortest Season
Prelude in G(ames) Minor
Seven Days
Twenty-four Hours
A Parade
Vets
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Still Ti
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One Great Game

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

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