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On December 11, 1971, Bertier had been at a banquet honoring the players of the 1971 T.C. Williams Titans football team for their undefeated season. After the banquet, Bertier borrowed his mother's new 1971 Chevrolet Camaro. Bertier lost control of the Camaro and crashed.
23 wrz 2021 · The film depicts the creation of T.C. Williams High School as ground zero for the city’s latest fight, a new school that combined two older institutions—one all-Black and one all-white—into a newly integrated tinderbox.
Remember The Titans is based on the true story of the 1971 T.C. Williams Titans football team. Herman Boone, an African American coach, was appointed as the head coach to lead the newly integrated team.
The screenplay by Gregory Allen Howard is loosely based on the true story of coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, and his attempt to integrate the T. C. Williams High School (now Alexandria City High School) football team in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971.
In real life, Gerry Bertier was paralyzed in a car accident, but it happened after the season ended, after the Titans had already played the championship game. On December 11, 1971, Gerry was coming home from the T.C Williams High School football banquet, where he had been honored with the Most Valuable Defensive Player Award.
2 paź 2000 · T.C.’s only tight squeeze came in the fifth game against George C. Marshall, coached by Northern Virginia legend Ed Henry. The Titans rallied to win 21-16 on a 75-yard run by Frankie Glascoe...
26 lip 2016 · Remember the Titans (2001) tells the story of the 1971 T.C. Williams High School Football team, located in racially-segregated, suburban Virginia. It chronicles the integration of two schools — one white, and one black — and the interracial football team that’s formed as a result of it.
