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.
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,
is an engaging cultural history about twenty-first-century American life.