The Long Green Line
by Matthew Arnold
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Actor: Connor Chadwick, Eric Dettman, Joe Newton, John Fisher, Matt DettmanDirector: Matthew Arnold
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: LGL Productions, LLC
Product features:
- 90 minutes of bonus video content
- Full length Feature film
DVD Reviews of The Long Green Line
DVD Review: What Can We Learn From "The Long Green Line"?
Summary: 4 Stars
Over his more than 50 years as coach of the boy's cross country team at York, Joe Newton's teams have won 26 State Championships and 20 National Championships. Although some of his coaching is controversial, since his top runners are putting in up to 130 miles per week, there is no arguing with Coach Newton's results.
After watching the film, here is what I think is his formula for success:
* Recruit a lot of freshman. Coach Newton aggressively recruits 50-100 freshman for the boy's cross country team each year.
* Get to know every runner on your team. Coach Newton gets to know each and every one of his over 220 runners. He give each one a nickname. He shakes their hand at each practice.
* Develop each runner. One of the runners featured in the film has cerebral palsy and can barely run at the beginning of the season. Coach Newton invests as much time with him as some of his top runners. He is soon beating other runners in races.
* Challenge each runner to do their best. Coach Newton provides his team with an inspirational quote each day. It's clear that he sees running as a metaphor for life.
* Develop team depth. In the film, several of York's top seven varsity runners aren't able to compete due to various problems, but the team is so deep their places are taken by the next runners on the squad and the team's performance doesn't suffer.
* Celebrate wins. Coach Newton and the York team celebrate both team and individual wins through out the season.
* Create a winning tradition. By winning so many State Championships, Coach Newton is both able to recruit runners who might have chosen other sports and to motivate the runners on his squad to keep the tradition going.
I highly recommend this film for high school cross country runners, their parents, and coaches.
For more information about Coach Newton's methods, you can read his book, Coaching Cross Country Successfully (Coaching Successfully Series).
Description of The Long Green Line
Coach Joe Newton has used the sport of Cross Country Running to teach simple but important lessons to high school boys for the last 50 years. "Always do your best", "be on time" and "it's nice to be great but far greater to be nice" are mantras, which have turned the Boys Cross Country team at the public York High School in Elmhurst Illinois into the most winning high school team in any sport in America. Along with mastery of their sport, Newton turns boys into men, who carry his teaching and his love for each of them throughout their lives. The Long Green Line documents the York Duke's 2005 Cross Country season as the runners seek their record 25th state title in 50 years. In the sport of Cross Country only the top 5 athletes per team score points and only seven are included in competition. The York team has 221 athletes participating under the tutelage of Coach Newton. Though 214 boys know they will have no influence on the season's scores, they are moved to participate just to be in the presence of Coach Newton. Such a large team is a blessing and curse. Newton is able to spread his influence further but life lessons can go unheard when they have to trickle to so many ears. In the middle of the season, two of the star athletes are expelled from school after committing over $1 million in arson damage. The York team is forced to rebuild -- to face a true test of what they have learned both physically and mentally. The team is colorfully decorated with characters like the All-American winners the Dettman Twins, Sophomore John Fisher, a high functioning autistic with a heart of gold, out of shape former football players who reside on the lowest rung of the team and Freshman Connor Chadwick who has cerebral palsy but is able to run without leg braces for the first time in his life. The Long Green Line is not only a team but also, a rite of passage. It is a lifeline for these young runners as they move from adolescence to manhood.Bestsellers in DVD
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