Coach Boone takes the team to football camp in Gettysburg. The audience is taken through Coach Boone’s own strategy for integration as the team learns mututal respect for and trust in one another. The boys, white and black, sit on the same bus together based on whether they play offense or defense. Whoever they are sitting next to will be their roommate for camp. Through this forced integration, Boone encourages his players to get to know each other. As Julius and Gary work out their relationship as teammates, often in the form of verbal exchanges and fighting, the racial tension becomes released, their leadership in overcoming differences rubs off on their teammates, and the team returns to campus as a united front. Now, the hard work begins to change the traditional black/white standards they return to in Alexandria. This rising action gets the audience involved in cheering on these boys to see each other as