Now a major motion picture starring Jon Voight, Nic Bishop, and C. Thomas Howell.

This riveting true story of courage, strength, and football at the height of racial tension in Birmingham, Alabama tells the story of Coach Tandy Gerelds, his running back Tony Nathan, and a high school football game that healed a city.

In the midst of violent, impassioned racial tensions in Birmingham, Alabama, new football coach, Tandy Gerelds, was struggling to create a winning football team at Woodlawn High School--one of the last schools in Birmingham to integrate. The team he was handed did not have the caliber of players he needed to win--until he saw Tony Nathan run.

But Tony was African American and Coach Gerelds knew that putting him in as running back would be like drawing a target on his own back and the back of his soon-to-be star player. But Coach Gerelds saw something in Tony, and he knew that his decision to let him play was about more than football. It was about doing what was right for the school--and the city.

And soon, the only place in the city where blacks and whites got along was on Coach Gerelds's football team. With the help of a new school chaplain, Tony learned to look beyond himself and realized that there was more at stake than winning a game.

In 1974, Coach Gerelds's interracial team made Alabama history drawing 42,000 fans into the stadium to watch them play. It was this game that triggered the unity and support of the Woodlawn High School Colonels and that finally allowed a city to heal and taught its citizens how to love.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	208
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Howard Books
Fecha de Publicación	2015-09-15
Dimensiones	8.2" x 5.4" x 0.8" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Sur, Sudeste de EE.UU., Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Birmingham, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Alabama, Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Sur, Sudeste de EE.UU., Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Birmingham, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Alabama, Sur, Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Sur, Sudeste de EE.UU., Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Birmingham, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Alabama, Sur, Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, Sur, Sudeste de EE.UU., Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur, Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur

Bowden, Bobby

Bobby Bowden was known as much for his affable charm as for his championship teams. Having coached young men over seven decades, he was the second-winningest coach in major college football history. The patriarch of college football's most famous coaching family, Bowden was heavily involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Bowden was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006. He died in 2021.

Schlabach, Mark

Mark Schlabach is the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling books, Happy, Happy, Happy, Si-cology 1, and The Duck Commander Family. He is one of the most respected and popular college football columnists in the country. He and his wife live in Madison, Georgia, with their three children.

Gerelds, Todd

Todd Gerelds, son of Legendary Alabama high school coach Tandy Gerelds, witnessed God's transforming grace at Woodlawn and throughout his dad's life. Todd is honored to tell the amazing story of redemption that happened at Woodlawn and changed countless lives forever. Tandy Gerelds's career spanned four decades with won championships and a twenty-eight game winning streak along the way. Todd, his wife, and four daughters live in Birmingham, Alabama.