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This Hartwick Classic Film Leadership Case® is based on the film about the true story of a high school football team, the T.C. Williams Titans. Under the leadership of two powerful, caring coaches - one white, the other African American - the team overcame deep racial prejudice to become true champions and to set an example for the racially divided town of Alexandria, Virginia. The film is set in the turbulent year of 1971 when the United States Supreme Court issued a mandate that all public schools must be integrated. In Alexandria, the all-white and all-black schools merge, and African American football coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) is hired, in a gesture toward Affirmative Action, to take charge of the school’s newly integrated football team. Boone replaces the more experienced and beloved Coach Yoast (Will Patton). Instead of resenting the enormous wave of change that sweeps the Titans into racially charged, debilitating conflict, the two coaches decide to join together to heal the conflict and lead the Titans to the state title. The film shows us two dedicated leaders with different styles but a shared vision striving to communicate with each other and with their team. They transform the hostile group into a community. We also see the team’s ambitious white Captain, Gerry, and African American star player, Julius, work to confront their own fears, weaknesses, and assumptions. The team’s ultimate success in changing themselves alters the attitudes and spirit of the townspeople as well. Students may investigate the grueling but compassionate methods the coaches use to ignite team spirit and respectful diversity, including tests of endurance, communication, honesty, self-evaluation and self-management, and moral decision making. The team’s trip to the Gettysburg Battlefield is a classic example of how leaders use history’s far-reaching influence to create meaningful change.
Communication, Conflict, Diversity,
Managing Difficult Dialogues, Creating a Collaborative Team, Managing a Diverse Team, Leading as Coaching, Turning the Troubled Team Around, House’s Path-Goal Theory
2000, rated PG, 114 minutes, color, Region 1 Encoding
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21 pages | |
30 pages | | | |
F-727 $3.95 | | | | | |
F-727-TN $9.95 | | | | | |
F-727-DVD $34.95 | | | | | |
F-727-TK-DVD $44.95
(Includes case study, teaching note and DVD) | | |
The above prices are the Institute's academic prices for degree-granting colleges and universities.
Corporate pricing is available upon request. |