![]() Soon after, the black students trying out for the team have a meeting in the gymnasium with Boone, but this turns into a fiasco when Yoast and several white students interrupt it. Dismayed at the prospect of the students losing their chances at scholarships, Yoast changes his mind and takes up the position of defensive coordinator under Boone, to his daughter Sheryl's dismay. Yoast is then offered an assistant coach's job by the school board and initially refuses but reconsiders after the white players pledge to boycott the team if he does not participate. He refuses, believing it unfair to Yoast, but relents after seeing what it means to the black community. In an attempt to placate rising racial tensions and the fact that, despite racial segregation in public schools now long since abolished, all other high schools are "white only", the school district decides to change course and name Boone the head coach. ![]() Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, Herman Boone, a black head coach who was supposed to lead the black high school's football team, is assigned to the coaching staff under current white head coach Bill Yoast, who previously led the white high school and has been nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. ![]() Nearly ten years earlier in the summer of 1971, at the newly integrated T. In 1981, a group of former football coaches and players attend a funeral. The film is often listed among the best football films. It grossed an estimated $115.6 million in the U.S., and $136.7 million worldwide. Remember the Titans had a budget of $30 million and premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States on September 29, 2000. It features songs by several recording artists including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, The Hollies, Marvin Gaye, James Taylor, The Temptations, and Cat Stevens. On September 19, 2000, the film's soundtrack was released by Walt Disney Records. The film was co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and released by Buena Vista Pictures. Real-life athletes Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell are portrayed by Ryan Hurst and Wood Harris, respectively. Will Patton portrays Bill Yoast, Boone's assistant coach. ![]() Williams High School (now Alexandria City High School) football team in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971. The screenplay, written by Gregory Allen Howard, is based on the true story of coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, and his attempt to integrate the T. Remember the Titans is a 2000 American biographical sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. ![]()
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