In 2000, Walt Disney Pictures released the film Remember the Titans which stirred the hearts of many but falsely depicted the Titans of T.C. Williams playing their arch-rival, George C. Marshall, in a nail-biter of a championship football game decided on the last play in a place called Roanoke Stadium. Wrong! The Titans played a small and scrappy bunch of players from Salem known as the Wolverines of Andrew Lewis High in the historic Victory Stadium of Roanoke. Salem native Mark A. OConnell sets the record straight for all time in this book which tells the true story of the championship game and also links the 1971 Andrew Lewis High Wolverines to a lasting-legacy which had begun in 1962 under legendary head Coach Eddie Joyce. Now you can read the trueand unalteredstory. *** Now this from Coach Foster: Andrew Lewis, a small southwest Virginia school located in Salem and nicknamed the Wolverines, playedand wonagainst some of the largest schools in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Tennessee. Today, these schools would be classified in Virginia as 6A, the largest of all six classifications. During the 1971 season, Andrew Lewis played 7 schools that had student enrollments over 2,000 while Lewiss enrollment was only 975 students. Lewis was 12-1 that year, its only loss to T.C. Williams (Remember the Titans Game) which had an enrollment of 5,000 students. Between 1962 and 1971, Andrew Lewis won 2 state championships (62,64) and was runner-up 3 times (66,67 and 71) as a member of the largest classification in Virginia. Over that span of timeconsidered as the best years of Coach Joycethe Wolverines compiled a record of 88 wins, 15 losses and 2 tiesDale Foster.