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File= This 1971 file photo shows Alexandria, Va's., T.C. Williams High School football coach Herman Boone, right, during a break at summer camp, with guard Johnny Colantuoni, (62) and John Vaughn, center. Boone, the Virginia high school football coach who inspired the movie “Remember the Titans,” has died. He was 84. Boone guided T.C. Williams High School to a state championship while navigating the early days of desegregation. Aly Khan Johnson, an assistant coach for Boone beginning in 1972, said the coach died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, at his home In Alexandria, Va. Johnson said a funeral home operated by his wife is handling the arrangements, which are not complete. (AP Photo/File)

High school coach portrayed in ‘Remember the Titans’ dies

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. - Associated Press

This Feb. 22, 2005, file photo shows Herman Boone, the coach featured in the movie "Remember the Titans" peering over the headdress of a Shoshone-Bannock dancer to speak to a large crowd in Pocatello, Idaho. Boone, the Virginia high school football coach who inspired the movie “Remember the Titans,” has died. He was 84. Boone guided T.C. Williams High School to a state championship while navigating the early days of desegregation. Aly Khan Johnson, an assistant coach for Boone beginning in 1972, said the coach died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, at his home In Alexandria, Virginia. Johnson said a funeral home operated by his wife is handling the arrangements, which are not complete.(Joshua Duplechian/The Idaho State Journal via AP, File)

Herman Boone, ‘Remember the Titans’ coach, dies at 84

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