When a star high school football player from South Central is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High School, two separate worlds collide.
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high-school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
Wealthy Brice Wayne enters West Point, excelling at football but angering fellow cadets with arrogance until he resigns, but returns to lead the team and reunite with Betty Channing.
Coach Gore, a ruthless and cynical big-time football coach, neglects his wife in his unrelenting drive to make Calvert College a football power.
A series centered around a group of football players and their families, friends and handlers.
