Legendary high school football coach Herman Boone has died.
Boone, whose state championship season was immortalized in the movie, “Remember the Titans,” was 84 years old, according to USA Today.
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Denzel Washington portrayed Boone in the movie detailing the 1971 T.C. Williams football team.
That was the first year that Alexandria, Virginia consolidated its students into a desegregated high school.
In that historic 1971 season, the actual state championship game was played against Salem’s Andrew Lewis High School at Victory Stadium in Roanoke.