He is a teacher, mentor, and also a football, basketball, and baseball coach. He began his career as a coach at two different high schools in North Carolina and Virginia. In 1969, in Williamston, North Carolina, Herman Boone was told that the city was not comfortable with having a black coach for the local high school football team. With that said, Herman then took an assistant coaching job at TC Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. “In 1971, the city of Alexandria decided to fully integrate its school system and named Herman as its first head football coach in place of a legendary white coach with several years of seniority and a steady following throughout the city” (“71 Original Titans”). Earlier that season, Herman took the boys to a football camp in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and throughout the journey he forced the young people to do everything as a team. This meant that in every room there were blacks and whites together, they had to eat every meal together and do exercises and workouts together. This not only changed the youth's perspective of each other, but also brought them together to give them the potential for a successful season ("Spirituality and Practice"). That year Herman Boone managed to bring together a team of black and white athletes and unite them into one team. He proved it, not just to his youth team