Before the West Coast | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A sports civil rights story. | dG1fLWQ1eGJKT3hzVkE

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00:00St. Aug and Coach Walsh and the football team are like Jackie Robinson.

00:16They were determined to show the community and the world that it could happen.

00:23It was part of the civil rights movement.

00:25You actually saw whites and blacks competing on the field.

00:30I think the social impact was bigger than the sports impact because it was the first

00:35time that an all-black school would compete in the Catholic League.

00:41Everybody in the black community rallied around St. Augustine.

00:48We had to have someone, when we go line up against an all-white team and someone calls

00:54you a racial name, you can't fight them.

00:57We felt like we were playing everybody else plus the referees.

01:01We started practicing and we started beginning to be aware.

01:05It's not first and ten for us, it's first and twenty-five.

01:08Coach Walsh was an interesting guy because he was very, very innovative.

01:12They had really a high-powered offensive scheme that they ran.

01:16A big part of that offense was the fullback running traps inside and at the same time

01:22slipping the back out of the back field into the flat.

01:24So the things that we did and the same things that were being done in San Francisco by the

01:2949ers, he was definitely ahead of his time showing that goal to me.

01:34And I made a promise to myself, one day, everybody in here is going to know the name St. Augustine

01:40because we're going to beat the living hell out of everybody we play.