Coach Boone of "Remember The Titans" Dies.
Herman Boone, Coach Portrayed in ‘Remember the Titans,’ Dies at 84 Mr. Boone led the T.C. Williams High School Titans to a state championship in 1971, his first season as head coach. By Sandra E. Garcia Dec. 19, 2019 Updated 2:12 p.m. ET Herman Boone, who led a racially integrated high school football team in Virginia to a state championship in his first season as head coach and was later portrayed by Denzel Washington in the Disney movie “Remember the Titans,” died on Wednesday at his home in Alexandria, Va. He was 84. The cause was lung cancer, according to Anthony Henderson, a son-in-law. In 1971, Alexandria’s three public high schools were merged into T.C. Williams High School. Mr. Boone was hired by the Alexandria school board as the head coach for the football team, the Titans. “He handled that coaching year with dignity,” said Wayne Sanders, 64, who was a running back on the school’s junior varsity team that year. “He was the right man for that year because of his coaching style...