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    were forced to integrate their students and faculty for the first time. Consequently, Coach Bill Yoast, a prominent, white member of the community and longtime head coach of the T.C. Williams High School football team, is asked to step down. Herman Boone is appointed to replace him as the school's first black faculty member and head football coach. The new coach faces many challenges; the newly integrated team is full of players (both black and

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    Daniel Boone, an American explorer and frontiersman, was born November 2, 1734 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Boone was fathered by a blacksmith and weaver, Squire Boone Sr. and nurtured by his England emigrated mother, Sarah Morgan. Boone was the sixth born and received a skimp formal education, for he learned to read and write from his mother. Boone acquired an education in wilderness and survival skills from his father. Boone just like his father had a niche for woodsmanship and hunting, for at

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    Remember The Titans Leading in Diverse Groups and Teams National University Jacquelyn London Abstract This paper will examine the motion picture that was released in 2000, a film named Remember the Titans. The film takes two different groups of peoples, that hates each other to come together and win the league title. The different types of factors that affected the team will be explored in this paper and how a coach takes a team from nothing to winning the league title. The performance of the

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    This tactic was use multiple time in the movie as coach Boone tried to bring up in every player the positive emotion. He promised to the player that “We will be perfect in every aspects of the game”. Then before their first game despite under pressure of got fire if lose a game, Boone still make a small speech: Tonight we 've got Hayfield. Like all the other schools in this conference, they 're all white. They don 't have

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    Amos was now silent discoing, shaving his beard only twice a year. As an undeclared major, Amos was ready to begin his freshmen year. He had his chacos on, every day, for the usual ten-minute walk to the Boone building. This, during the time Jared Caperton was SGA President, and Dan Boone head of the university. All during Hurricane Mathew,

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    whites are now attending the same school. Tension builds even more when the current head coach, Bill Yoast, a white coach, is told by the school board that he must step down to assistant coach to make way for the newly appointed head coach, Herman Boone, a black coach. The movie focusses around the football team as both blacks and whites lean to put aside their race and their differences to come together to achieve a common goal, and that is to win. The second movie, The Replacements, is a fictional

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    film is about two schools in Alexandria Virginia that integrated in the early 1970s to form T.C. Williams High School. The white head coach of the Titans (Coach Bill Yoast) is replaced by an African American coach from North Carolina (Coach Herman Boone). Tensions arise when players of different races are forced together on the same football team. Many of these tensions are eased during the two-week training camp in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When players returned to Alexandria the players found the

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    perspective. It now makes sense to me to look at a football team, or any other type of sports team, from a management point of view. Coach Herman Boone, who is played by Denzel Washington, is a very influential person. He is a perfect leader. While it cannot be found out for sure,

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    fumble when protecting the ball with both hands. Personal issues Just before the state semi-finals, a member of the school board tells coach Yoast that he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame after the Titans lose their game. Coach Boone was threatened to be fired if the team lost a single game because he was an African American head coach in a white society. The game was being officiated in the opposing teams favor. Coach Yoast went up to an official and threatened to tell the press

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    In 1971 Coach Herman Boone replaced a popular, successful white coach at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, in that community's effort to finally integrate its schools. The school and community were angrily divided by the federal integration order, and the volatility of the situation was heightened by the abrupt demotion of Coach Yoast and Boone's promotion to Head Coach. In this movie Coach Boone is on a mission to try to get the white and black players to unite and play together

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