high school football players

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high school football players

Break all rules

When football teams from opposing schools stay at the same hotel and are ordered to be polite and keep to themselves by the coach, Cole begins to wonder if Rick is up to no good, especially when Garrett, from Oak Hill High, goes missing.
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Football high

Investigates a high school football team in Arkansas, where two players collapsed from heatstroke last year while practicing during one of the hottest summers on record, raising concerns about the rising rates of concussion and heatstroke injuries suffered by high school football players each year.

Muck city

winning and losing in football's forgotten town
Provides a profile of Belle Glade, Florida, and its high school football program which has sent thirty players to the NFL since 1985. Explores the town's obsession with winning in spite of the poverty that plagues both the townfolk and the high school itself and profiles several individuals who are influenced by this football program and have a will to succeed in spite of the odds.

T-Lloyd

in the trenches
2008
Profiles the life and accomplishments of Texas high school football star Thomas Lloyd III, who relocated from New Orleans to Hurst after Hurricane Katrina.

Must win

a season of survival for a town and its team
2012
Chronicles the 2010 season of the Valdosta, Georgia high school football team, the most successful team in America, who for decades has drawn the spotlight of national media.

Break all rules

2009
When football teams from opposing schools stay at the same hotel and are ordered to be polite and keep to themselves by the coach, Cole begins to wonder if Rick is up to no good, especially when Garrett, from Oak Hill High, goes missing.

Muck city

winning and losing in football's forgotten town
2012
Looks at three people in Belle Glade, Florida, high school football player Mario Rowley of the Glades Central Raiders, who wants to win in the name of his dead parents, team coach Jessie Hester, who is more interested in coaching for the players than winning, and Jonteria Williams, a cheerleader who wants to become a doctor, and how they are affected by the poverty and social conditions of the town.
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