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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 <br> One Great Game <br> 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. <br> 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. <i>One Great Game</i> 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 <i>Friday Night Lights.</i> More than a book about football, <i>One Great Game</i> is an engaging cultural history about twenty-first-century American life.