Backstory: The reason why this game is called the “Game of The Century” is because we had entered the 2000’s and this was the first time EVER in history that the #1 and #2 nationally ranked HS teams meet in a matchup. De La Salle and Long Beach Poly were perennial powers. This was basically a national championship game. Also, De La Salle was on a decades long win streak, Poly was dominating SoCal, in which they (Poly) had a team that could potentially end De La Salle’s win streak.
@@Bruss813 , So many great athletes in this game, and many did make it to the NFL. - Maurice Jones-Drew (DLS) had great career at UCLA, as well in the NFL. Was a Pro-Bowler for multiple years. - Derek Landri (DLS) - had a great career at Notre Dame and played in the NFL for about a decade - Matt Gutierrez (DLS) - played at Michigan for a bit, but then I remember Chad Henne beating him out for the starting job. He then transferred out of Michigan. He eventually made it to the NFL, but was basically a practice squad player for his entire NFL Career. - Darnel Bing - had a great career at USC, made it to the NFL and played like 5 years but never starting - Marcedes Lewis (LBP) - had a long NFL career, and as of 2023, he is still playing! - Winston Justice (LBP) - had a great career at USC and I believe was an NFL 1st Rounder. Played a decade in the NFL - Hershel Dennis (LBP), who was a starter at USC the same time Reggie Bush and Lendale White was there. Dennis was injury prone, so we never got to see much of him. He never made it to the NFL
This game was so hyped back in the day. I was still in H.S. and I couldn't wait to watch this. Poly was the team with all the talent, but De La Salle was just the better and more well coached team. We also were introduced to future NFL star Maurice Jones-Drew, who absolutely was the best player on the field that night. My man #13 for LBP dropped 3 TD passes SMH. Otherwise Poly might have pulled out the victory. Also shot out Mercedes Lewis, who went on to a 17 year pro career that's lasted up until this past season.
What do you mean Poly had all the talent? it was De La Salle that had all the talent since they wete having the greatest winning streak in high school football history
@@24quorthonschuldiner62 There's a difference between a team full of great talent and a great TEAM. De La Salle won all those consecutive games first and foremost, because they had a great and well coached TEAM.
I went to Bosco during this time and De La Selle had their pregame dinner and mass at our school with us before our game and they were locked in the whole time. Those dudes didn’t crack a smile out blink more than they had to. I knew they were going to beat Poly after that
What a game i love both those programs. This one of the most anticipated games that i can remember. I absolutely love national level high school football. The talent on both of those programs was incredible.
***** I've seen many incredible fball over the years.. that USC v Texas in 05' was epic! Then my NhHS CiF in 99! LBP v MD Matt Grootegoed my fav individual performance in HS ball ever!
I was fortunate enough to live by de la salle and got to play them every year in high school. I graduated the year before this game so it was during their ridiculous win streak
I played against them in the 90s. We all knew they were the winning team, but they basically recruited their players and played public schools that didnt get to do that. I actually had a school friend in middle school that ended up going to play for de la salle instead of our team, liberty union. They were a stacked team and shouldnt have been in the BVAL. Most of those wins at least in the 1990s were against public schools that had local talent only, not targeted talent that de la salle had as a private school with a good program. They should have been kicked out of the BVAL way back in the 90s.
Legend has it that De La Salle was so gassed and dehydrated at half time of this game that players had to be administered IVs just to get their fluids back up.
14:58 The more I watch this video, the more I understand how perfect De La Salle had to play to win this game: Long Beach Poly during this era was absolutely ferocious, and they were more than likely the most talented team in all of high school football roster wise that year. De La Salle was probably the only team that could actually compete against this Poly squad, much less beat them.
Hart of Newhall could have played with both these squads CIF Champions 98,99,00,01, finalist in 02 (lost by 4 pts to Mission Viejo who was using illegal football's, snapped Harts 35 game winning streak) they came back in 03 and won the CIF championship again snapping Mission Viejos 41 game winning streak! 04 was an off year where they lost in the playoffs to the #1 team in the nation Mission Viejo, Hart went lost in the CIF Championship on the 1 yard line to Canyon in 05 (Canyon beat DLS for state in 06) Hart lost in the finals in 07 to a Darrel Scott led St Bonaventure, Hart also won CIF in 2013
I remember watching this game at Shakey's in Whittier on Washington Ave. My youngest brother played for Rowland Raiders, if I'm not mistaken I think they had a game against Santa Fe Springs Saints and we went out to Shakey's with the team after the game.
I’m from socal and this was the first of many great high school football games I was fortunate enough to attend. I thought Poly would smash them when I seen both teams pregame, because there size was unreal and I’m socal bias lol. When jones broke free and dropped that pass I told my dad that was easy that will be all day. My dad said u don’t know this coach I promise you that will not happen again, and it didn’t lol. Poly was so talented, desean Jackson was on the bench this game, this poly team was the biggest high school football team I ever seen, they had 4-5 guys that were 6’5 or taller, they had the #1 TE,RB and safety in the nation, and the whole starting defense pretty much went D1, but they were ultimately no match for the greatest high school football coach of all time and the greatest high school football player I have ever seen in Maurice Drew. I’m positive Maurice Drew woulda been the number 1 overall player that year, if it wasn’t for his size he was listed at 5’7 but he wasn’t even that tall he looks way bigger on video then he did in real life. Poly was far more talented but Raul lara first year and he proved to be a tragically bad coach who ran the program into the ground. Poly was raw talent and was a militant polished machine literally unbeatable back then.
I’m from the southeast, but I had SoCal bias too. Kids from SoCal to me seemed be exceptionally skilled and technically sound, and that continues today. The first ever HS game I got to watch on the west coast was a playoff game between Loyola and Huntington Beach Edison, and A.J. Martinez and Marcus McCutcheon were locking WR’s up!!
@@FTBLDepot that’s also how I felt about socal until I moved to NorCal for 3 years and as an adult I was able to appreciate there style of play more. There never as big as socal teams but there so technically sound it’s crazy. Most the pop Warner teams over there run the same offense as the high school teams, so kids play in that system from like 10-18 so when they come to high school they just plug right in de la salle and Folsom best examples of that. Also socal kids are flash and kinda maintenance , NorCal kids are tough af almost like countryish just get the job done.
Andre Young Hey Andre, saw this link on a forum for high school sports. Thanks for the upload! Do you have other high school football games in recent memory? Some De La Salle vs. Don Bosco Prep matchups for instance?
no , he recruits and takes all the players from the section. kids travel 1-2 hrs a day to be at DLS! When you win at a public school over and over and take kids from your district, you can call them a goat.
@@CIF-pm7tk DLS, like Mater Dei, doesn't have enrollment boundaries. No private schools do. What each private school does in Cali is really limited to how much they want to win. Some, like MD and Bosco, will take on all comers. Others will keep a low profile and not do much. But all of them, from Bellarmine to Bosco, have the same capability to get talent.
@Bill Blass ...more like 10 or 11 nfl players. Mercedes lewis, Winston Justice, Darnell Bing, Matt Gutierrez, Manuel Wright n those are the ones of the top of my head.
I wonder if this is the most NFL players to ever play in high school game. there's like 8 off hand and about 30 Division 1 players starting on both sides of the ball for each team
BattleRap Critik Has to be up there. Willing to bet there are a few prep games in Florida that probably had some folks on the bench that made the league. But off-hand it's Landri, Drew, Justice, Wright, Lewis, Bing and I am probably missing a few from Poly.
If you have any Hart Football during this same era of late 90s and early 2000s, please post. Fox Sports covered some good games during that time. A lot awesome future D1 players came out at that time plus 4 straight CIF Championship seasons. Thank you.
Hart won 98,99,00,01, lost in 02 by 4 points to a cheating MV team which snapped Harts 35 game winning streak, came back in 03 to demolish MV ending their 41 game winning streak, lost close championships in 05 and 07, came back and won in 2013. I have been trying to find Hart vs Mission Viejo 2003 for a while now.. Los Alamitos vs Hart is online and there are highlights of the Westlake game. I just saw 2005 Hart vs Canyon CIF Championship was uploaded, which capped a 3 game winning streak by Canyon over Hart, those 3 wins were by a combined 11 points. Hart lost the league championship in 05 by fumbling inside the 5 yard line down 14-16. and they lost the CIF final game to Canyon 13-21, they drove 99 yards from their own 1 to the Canyon 1 and lost a first down measurement by an inch...
@@brighthought11You know your stuff! I appreciate that. I went to Hart and was the starting QB for the 1996 Hart Freshman Football Team. I was a year behind future NFL QB Kyle Boller. 1999 would have been my senior Football season. However, I only played Football 9th and 10th. That 98 to 01 streak was amazing at Hart. I grew up playing youth and lower level high school ball with a lot of those legendary Hart players during that era. Great memories!
I was at this game... i remember walking into the VET and hearing LB POLY fans talking mad schit about how they were gonna work over them white boys from DLS.....hahaha
Stephenville and Southlake Carroll were the top dogs in Texas during this time and as much as it pains me to admit it, either one of those California teams would have killed them.
Biggest HS football game EVER - you’d think commentators would at least do their homework on the teams and players. Yet, these turds seem oblivious to the talent that MJD was. Dude had been a star at de la since his Freshman year and everyone knew he was THEE man on this years team.
I have to say, this was a little anti-climactic after watching the movie, "When the Game Stands Tall," but it was still a great game. I know the real history is different from in the movie, but Poly just did not seem to be the formidable opponent that they were depicted to be in the movie. I guess that's Hollywood for ya. No matter what, I was still really glad to be able to see this game -- thank you for posting it.
So you don't want to hear that Friday Night Lights is complete crap to? Because that Permian team didn't even make it to the state title game. Also the 300 Spartans were neither alone nor did they fight in thongs at Thermopylae. Hollywood lied to me, obvious statement of the day goes to....
Being from norcal, I remember this game. We thought anyone picking poly was smoking rocks. De la salle was unbeatable. And anyone who didn't know, was about to find out lol.
@aaronn3487 yes but they get destroyed in state which wasn't the case years back. That's what I meant by fallen hard. I remember they used to travel more than any team by far in early 2000s and hold their own.
Backstory: The reason why this game is called the “Game of The Century” is because we had entered the 2000’s and this was the first time EVER in history that the #1 and #2 nationally ranked HS teams meet in a matchup. De La Salle and Long Beach Poly were perennial powers. This was basically a national championship game. Also, De La Salle was on a decades long win streak, Poly was dominating SoCal, in which they (Poly) had a team that could potentially end De La Salle’s win streak.
would love to see that, Canyon smoked them. Hart played Canyon closer in league play than DLS did. Moorpark played Canyon closer, St bonnie and Notre Dame beat Canyon.
I remember when tiny Bellevue of Washington state took down de la Salle and ended the 151 streak by running the veer offense their kids were taught the veer from 6th grade on. It is very difficult to defend especially if you have not seen it and have kids that can execute it with perfection. Bellevue also took down POLY , KATTY OF TEXAS AND OAKS CHRISTIAN no easy task. love high school football.
Bellevue was a multiple time state champion as well. They were also physically bigger than De La Salle that season, the Bellevue offensive line averaged almost a 40lb weight advantage over the DLS defensive line.
Actually, Bellevue ran the double wing, not the Veer. The main reason they defeated DLS was their OL lined up as far off the ball as possible, allowing them to pull and trap before DLS DL could penetrate.
"Tiny" Bellevue is public and has twice the amount of students as DLS. DLS challenged Bellevue multiple times before that game and Bellevue turned them down every time. Then, when they knew DLS was rebuilding, Bellevue stacked the team with out of area recruited players like J.R. Hasty, E.J Savanah, and had a couple of 5th yr seniors as well. They sent DLS old outdated game tapes, but made sure to hire new coaches and came up with sneaky trick plays they had never used before. Bellevue was one of the most unethical football teams in the country. The recruiting and the diploma mill they had got exposed on a national level,, and Goncharoff eventually got fired, assistant coaches left, and they are total nobody's since then. What comes around, goes around. As for other teams, they got their asses kicked against Katy, and got pushed around and held scoreless against sub-par Grant of Sacramento. They didn't dominate Long Beach Poly, and Poly wasn't an elite team anyways. Had they played DLS any other year than 2004, they would have been pummeled badly.
foot note to this match up...del la salle whacked poly again nxt yr 2002 at concord 28-7 dominating performance poly defensive plays wore towels stating DREW WHO...and drew ran all over them big time.
There might not be another high school football game throughout history that had more talent on the field. Both of these teams were absolutely loaded! I’d have to give LBP the edge in overall talent however, De Lasalle was obviously the much better team.
@@FTBLDepot Why, I know a bunch of people were loving you posting those classic high school football games. You should bring em back and more, I got a small list of games I was gone see if u have to post
Lot of future Bruins and Trojans on this field. Maurice Drew and Marcedes Lewis to UCLA; Manuel Wright, Darnell Bing, Hershel Dennis and Winston Justice to USC.
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Backstory: The reason why this game is called the “Game of The Century” is because we had entered the 2000’s and this was the first time EVER in history that the #1 and #2 nationally ranked HS teams meet in a matchup. De La Salle and Long Beach Poly were perennial powers. This was basically a national championship game. Also, De La Salle was on a decades long win streak, Poly was dominating SoCal, in which they (Poly) had a team that could potentially end De La Salle’s win streak.
Can you tell us the notable Alumni? Not just NFL guys, but the big names on campus?
I think the 2008 state championship was just as good when (Grant) in Sacramento beat (Long Beach Poly). Long Beach was #1 in america that year.
@@Bruss813 Maurice jones-drew..?
@@SunnyState Grant and LBP were not close to #1 but they were good
@@Bruss813 ,
So many great athletes in this game, and many did make it to the NFL.
- Maurice Jones-Drew (DLS) had great career at UCLA, as well in the NFL. Was a Pro-Bowler for multiple years.
- Derek Landri (DLS) - had a great career at Notre Dame and played in the NFL for about a decade
- Matt Gutierrez (DLS) - played at Michigan for a bit, but then I remember Chad Henne beating him out for the starting job. He then transferred out of Michigan. He eventually made it to the NFL, but was basically a practice squad player for his entire NFL Career.
- Darnel Bing - had a great career at USC, made it to the NFL and played like 5 years but never starting
- Marcedes Lewis (LBP) - had a long NFL career, and as of 2023, he is still playing!
- Winston Justice (LBP) - had a great career at USC and I believe was an NFL 1st Rounder. Played a decade in the NFL
- Hershel Dennis (LBP), who was a starter at USC the same time Reggie Bush and Lendale White was there. Dennis was injury prone, so we never got to see much of him. He never made it to the NFL
I remember this game.. Fox Sports had it cracking. Maurice Drew was a beast
It’s Maurice Jones drew who played for the jabs
@@coltonhays940 Who are jabs?
@@TheFirstworldleader they’re the only team who are fully vaccinated in the nfl
@@BeingConsciousness-yw3zw 😂
Marcedes Lewis was playing too
This game was so hyped back in the day. I was still in H.S. and I couldn't wait to watch this. Poly was the team with all the talent, but De La Salle was just the better and more well coached team. We also were introduced to future NFL star Maurice Jones-Drew, who absolutely was the best player on the field that night. My man #13 for LBP dropped 3 TD passes SMH. Otherwise Poly might have pulled out the victory.
Also shot out Mercedes Lewis, who went on to a 17 year pro career that's lasted up until this past season.
I cannot believe 13 dropped that ball
What do you mean Poly had all the talent? it was De La Salle that had all the talent since they wete having the greatest winning streak in high school football history
Mercedes is back on track, baby!
@@24quorthonschuldiner62 There's a difference between a team full of great talent and a great TEAM. De La Salle won all those consecutive games first and foremost, because they had a great and well coached TEAM.
Marcedes Lewis still playing
I went to Bosco during this time and De La Selle had their pregame dinner and mass at our school with us before our game and they were locked in the whole time. Those dudes didn’t crack a smile out blink more than they had to. I knew they were going to beat Poly after that
Fox Sorts West had televised some great high school football during the late 90s and into the 2000s. Love this stuff!!!
I looked this up after watching When The Game Stands Tall
Same lol
Same, I remember watching that in 8th grade 2015 for P.E. lol, i just remember they lost their streak to bellevue who always wins state in WA
That movie sucks so bad.
First offensive play for Poly at 14:52 ....dropped a sure touchdown. Changed the game
I don’t know if it changes the final outcome however, it definitely hurt them. De LaSalle was simply a well oiled machine in this era.
What a game i love both those programs. This one of the most anticipated games that i can remember.
I absolutely love national level high school football. The talent on both of those programs was incredible.
Damn I forgot Maurice Jones Drew played at De LA Salke. Same size as the pros just got thicker LOL
I don't comment on UA-cam vids often but thank u Andre for uploading the 3rd best fball game I've ever watched
***** I've seen many incredible fball over the years.. that USC v Texas in 05' was epic! Then my NhHS CiF in 99!
LBP v MD
Matt Grootegoed my fav individual performance in HS ball ever!
***** what are some games you'll never forget?
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I just finished watching the kick 6 iron bowl again. That one ranks pretty high too.
Coach Bob was my coach in the 1989 Shrine Bowl Cal Highschool allstar game in the Rosebowl. great guy!
I was fortunate enough to live by de la salle and got to play them every year in high school. I graduated the year before this game so it was during their ridiculous win streak
I played against them in the 90s. We all knew they were the winning team, but they basically recruited their players and played public schools that didnt get to do that. I actually had a school friend in middle school that ended up going to play for de la salle instead of our team, liberty union. They were a stacked team and shouldnt have been in the BVAL. Most of those wins at least in the 1990s were against public schools that had local talent only, not targeted talent that de la salle had as a private school with a good program. They should have been kicked out of the BVAL way back in the 90s.
Legend has it that De La Salle was so gassed and dehydrated at half time of this game that players had to be administered IVs just to get their fluids back up.
Yeah, the book One Great Game spoke on this.
Used to watch this with my uncle on VHS over and over
I was at this game I cut a few of the poly kidds hair that was on the team.. Mr Baker Barber shop..
I was actually at this game. Fun game and atmosphere
I was up there knocking foos out in the bleachers
Drew played every down special teams & all!!!
Straight dawg!
How insane is it that Kurt, Terry, Howie, and Jimmy are still the fox football cast all these years later 💀
😂
ain't broke, don't fix
I was there. The atmosphere for a high school football game was amazing. Hard, too, believe it was 24 years ago. Time is a MF lol
I was at the game. It occurred shortly after 9/11. A great atmosphere with so much talent on the field.
14:58 The more I watch this video, the more I understand how perfect De La Salle had to play to win this game: Long Beach Poly during this era was absolutely ferocious, and they were more than likely the most talented team in all of high school football roster wise that year. De La Salle was probably the only team that could actually compete against this Poly squad, much less beat them.
I don’t know, de La Salle seemed to dominate this game.
Not sure what game you saw, but Poly got wrecked
Hart of Newhall could have played with both these squads
CIF Champions 98,99,00,01, finalist in 02 (lost by 4 pts to Mission Viejo who was using illegal football's, snapped Harts 35 game winning streak) they came back in 03 and won the CIF championship again snapping Mission Viejos 41 game winning streak! 04 was an off year where they lost in the playoffs to the #1 team in the nation Mission Viejo, Hart went lost in the CIF Championship on the 1 yard line to Canyon in 05 (Canyon beat DLS for state in 06)
Hart lost in the finals in 07 to a Darrel Scott led St Bonaventure, Hart also won CIF in 2013
I remember watching this game at Shakey's in Whittier on Washington Ave. My youngest brother played for Rowland Raiders, if I'm not mistaken I think they had a game against Santa Fe Springs Saints and we went out to Shakey's with the team after the game.
I’m from socal and this was the first of many great high school football games I was fortunate enough to attend. I thought Poly would smash them when I seen both teams pregame, because there size was unreal and I’m socal bias lol. When jones broke free and dropped that pass I told my dad that was easy that will be all day. My dad said u don’t know this coach I promise you that will not happen again, and it didn’t lol. Poly was so talented, desean Jackson was on the bench this game, this poly team was the biggest high school football team I ever seen, they had 4-5 guys that were 6’5 or taller, they had the #1 TE,RB and safety in the nation, and the whole starting defense pretty much went D1, but they were ultimately no match for the greatest high school football coach of all time and the greatest high school football player I have ever seen in Maurice Drew. I’m positive Maurice Drew woulda been the number 1 overall player that year, if it wasn’t for his size he was listed at 5’7 but he wasn’t even that tall he looks way bigger on video then he did in real life. Poly was far more talented but Raul lara first year and he proved to be a tragically bad coach who ran the program into the ground. Poly was raw talent and was a militant polished machine literally unbeatable back then.
I’m from the southeast, but I had SoCal bias too. Kids from SoCal to me seemed be exceptionally skilled and technically sound, and that continues today. The first ever HS game I got to watch on the west coast was a playoff game between Loyola and Huntington Beach Edison, and A.J. Martinez and Marcus McCutcheon were locking WR’s up!!
@@FTBLDepot that’s also how I felt about socal until I moved to NorCal for 3 years and as an adult I was able to appreciate there style of play more. There never as big as socal teams but there so technically sound it’s crazy. Most the pop Warner teams over there run the same offense as the high school teams, so kids play in that system from like 10-18 so when they come to high school they just plug right in de la salle and Folsom best examples of that. Also socal kids are flash and kinda maintenance , NorCal kids are tough af almost like countryish just get the job done.
Desean jackson was a freshman this year. I dont think he was on the varsity squad.
@@FreshWest555 I’m tougher than y’all toughest kid in NorCal y’all ain’t got shiii on us lil boy
Good old days
If you have any other games like de la salle mater dei 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, or long beach poly de la salle 2002 you should upload them
Andre Young Hey Andre, saw this link on a forum for high school sports. Thanks for the upload! Do you have other high school football games in recent memory? Some De La Salle vs. Don Bosco Prep matchups for instance?
Sam Bruce That game is on here but it's kinda hard to watch because of the angle it was recorded at.
To think that Mercedes Lewis is playing in the NFL is AWSOME.
Greatest California football ever.
2. Mater Dei vs St. John Bosco 2018
3. Dos Palos vs St. Bonaventure 2001
Mater Dei vs IMG 2018
Bosco getting it's revenge on Mater Dei this year, 2019, greatest comeback of all time
Clovis East v Long Beach Poly double OT 2004
MD vs IMG...it'll be a long time before we see something like that again.
Damn that first return though from Drew.
Coach LAD is the GOAT.
no , he recruits and takes all the players from the section. kids travel 1-2 hrs a day to be at DLS! When you win at a public school over and over and take kids from your district, you can call them a goat.
@@CIF-pm7tk what kids?
@@CIF-pm7tk DLS, like Mater Dei, doesn't have enrollment boundaries. No private schools do. What each private school does in Cali is really limited to how much they want to win. Some, like MD and Bosco, will take on all comers. Others will keep a low profile and not do much. But all of them, from Bellarmine to Bosco, have the same capability to get talent.
i went to that game. i was 14 years old
This game had 5 future nfl players, best highschool games I've ever seen....
Mike Honcho who great user name
@Bill Blass ...more like 10 or 11 nfl players. Mercedes lewis, Winston Justice, Darnell Bing, Matt Gutierrez, Manuel Wright n those are the ones of the top of my head.
Also: Maurice (Jones)-Drew, Derek Landri, Jackie Bates
Kevin Simon who played for the Vols was on the team
Hershel Dennis started for usc in 2003 at rb over
Just about everyone on campus including the principal cried after the game
What id do to be able to go back in time and go see this game in person
I wonder if this is the most NFL players to ever play in high school game. there's like 8 off hand and about 30 Division 1 players starting on both sides of the ball for each team
BattleRap Critik
Has to be up there. Willing to bet there are a few prep games in Florida that probably had some folks on the bench that made the league. But off-hand it's Landri, Drew, Justice, Wright, Lewis, Bing and I am probably missing a few from Poly.
If you have any Hart Football during this same era of late 90s and early 2000s, please post. Fox Sports covered some good games during that time. A lot awesome future D1 players came out at that time plus 4 straight CIF Championship seasons. Thank you.
Hart won 98,99,00,01, lost in 02 by 4 points to a cheating MV team which snapped Harts 35 game winning streak, came back in 03 to demolish MV ending their 41 game winning streak, lost close championships in 05 and 07, came back and won in 2013.
I have been trying to find Hart vs Mission Viejo 2003 for a while now.. Los Alamitos vs Hart is online and there are highlights of the Westlake game.
I just saw 2005 Hart vs Canyon CIF Championship was uploaded, which capped a 3 game winning streak by Canyon over Hart, those 3 wins were by a combined 11 points. Hart lost the league championship in 05 by fumbling inside the 5 yard line down 14-16. and they lost the CIF final game to Canyon 13-21, they drove 99 yards from their own 1 to the Canyon 1 and lost a first down measurement by an inch...
@@brighthought11You know your stuff! I appreciate that. I went to Hart and was the starting QB for the 1996 Hart Freshman Football Team. I was a year behind future NFL QB Kyle Boller. 1999 would have been my senior Football season. However, I only played Football 9th and 10th. That 98 to 01 streak was amazing at Hart. I grew up playing youth and lower level high school ball with a lot of those legendary Hart players during that era. Great memories!
Absolutely! I’m constantly looking for those games.
@ 1:40:24 sick run by Dennis. the vision on that. woah!
HD was a monster. Luckily DLS MJD and Derek Landri had their coming out party. Several pros on the field that day.
I was at this game. Long Beach Poly all day every day. We still talk about this game 20 years later
Drew, Lewis, Bing….all went on to the NFL. Huge game big time programs.
Winston Justice too. He’s most famous for crying at Miami Dolphins camp bc Saban ripped him.
@@xandercrews4729. yeah right....get your shit straight it was Manny wright
I was there freshman year HS Long Beach Wilson!!!
I was at this game... i remember walking into the VET and hearing LB POLY fans talking mad schit about how they were gonna work over them white boys from DLS.....hahaha
@noturbusiness123 Maurice drew had plenty of brawn. He was the best player on the field by a mile
Stephenville and Southlake Carroll were the top dogs in Texas during this time and as much as it pains me to admit it, either one of those California teams would have killed them.
Texas HS football is top notch! But SoCal HS football is different. To me, the teams and players have always been polished.
Rico knows
@24:02 That is not an wasy tackle to make.
If any of these guys didn’t make it to a big college they got a hell of an experience this night.
Yessir! Big time game in a big time atmosphere.
These were the times when football was football.
Judging by the Progressive commerical after DLS’s first score tells me this was a re-air of the game.
👍🏾👍🏾
When this game was played, Poly was ranked #1 nationally and De la salle was #2
The442nd
Huh? De La Salle was undefeated over 10+ years with an insane group returning. Poly played better competition in So Cal, but they were #2.
The play by play guys on here are high. Their background info, way off.
Biggest HS football game EVER - you’d think commentators would at least do their homework on the teams and players. Yet, these turds seem oblivious to the talent that MJD was. Dude had been a star at de la since his Freshman year and everyone knew he was THEE man on this years team.
They should’ve played each other in the first Open Division bowl game.
why was I watching the ads? lol
Jones watches this video and cries at night.
I watched this my freshman year.
I have to say, this was a little anti-climactic after watching the movie, "When the Game Stands Tall," but it was still a great game. I know the real history is different from in the movie, but Poly just did not seem to be the formidable opponent that they were depicted to be in the movie. I guess that's Hollywood for ya. No matter what, I was still really glad to be able to see this game -- thank you for posting it.
So you don't want to hear that Friday Night Lights is complete crap to? Because that Permian team didn't even make it to the state title game. Also the 300 Spartans were neither alone nor did they fight in thongs at Thermopylae. Hollywood lied to me, obvious statement of the day goes to....
That Poly team had the best talent collectively than any football team in High School history. Just didnt show up
That movie fuckin sucks, it’s cheesy bullshit.
Being from norcal, I remember this game. We thought anyone picking poly was smoking rocks. De la salle was unbeatable. And anyone who didn't know, was about to find out lol.
Ngl, I thought Poly was going to end De La Salle’s streak. One of the best HS football games I ever watched.
Man that dude Jones for poly had feet for hands this game
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MJD WAS SO AWSOME.
Talent vs coaching, coaching won…. Twice.
Raul Laura be like ISO, counter incomplete bomb, punt. Then iso incomplete bomb, counter, punt, then usually iso to the house. It’s ridiculous
De la Salle isn’t the same without Coach Bob. They have fallen hard now
I'm guessing the winning steak broke now?
@@anthonybautista3585 oh that broke years ago. I think in ‘05
@@the54th34 oh dang
@aaronn3487 yes but they get destroyed in state which wasn't the case years back. That's what I meant by fallen hard. I remember they used to travel more than any team by far in early 2000s and hold their own.
is this where "i think I got my swagger back" came from?
No, different de la salle
No this is the “when the game stands tall” came from. Btw that de salle you are talking about is from Michigan.
Some HS football teams just do NOT look like HS teams 😅. These kids are incredible
I know! It’s like the players have gotten smaller.
It is pretty much universal fact that if your school is named De La Salle you're balling. "Think I got my swagger back."
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#13 for LBP has to wake up once a night in a cold sweat dreaming about this game 😖😖
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Love "Game of the century" when it was year 1 of the century 🤣🤣🤣😂
Backstory: The reason why this game is called the “Game of The Century” is because we had entered the 2000’s and this was the first time EVER in history that the #1 and #2 nationally ranked HS teams meet in a matchup. De La Salle and Long Beach Poly were perennial powers. This was basically a national championship game. Also, De La Salle was on a decades long win streak, Poly was dominating SoCal, in which they (Poly) had a team that could potentially end De La Salle’s win streak.
Damn Long Beach fell off
This was a fun game
Dam this shiiiii brings bac memories
Do you have a copy of the De La Salle vs Canyon state title gane?
would love to see that, Canyon smoked them. Hart played Canyon closer in league play than DLS did. Moorpark played Canyon closer, St bonnie and Notre Dame beat Canyon.
The following year they beat Poly at Cal stadium.
cant wait for the next meeting of these two this season!, GO POLY!
+DJ Big C how did that work out for ya??
Boo
I remember when tiny Bellevue of Washington state took down de la Salle and ended the 151 streak by running the veer offense their kids were taught the veer from 6th grade on. It is very difficult to defend especially if you have not seen it and have kids that can execute it with perfection. Bellevue also took down POLY , KATTY OF TEXAS AND OAKS CHRISTIAN no easy task. love high school football.
Bellevue had a huge scandal in 2016
Bellevue was a multiple time state champion as well. They were also physically bigger than De La Salle that season, the Bellevue offensive line averaged almost a 40lb weight advantage over the DLS defensive line.
Actually, Bellevue ran the double wing, not the Veer. The main reason they defeated DLS was their OL lined up as far off the ball as possible, allowing them to pull and trap before DLS DL could penetrate.
"Tiny" Bellevue is public and has twice the amount of students as DLS. DLS challenged Bellevue multiple times before that game and Bellevue turned them down every time. Then, when they knew DLS was rebuilding, Bellevue stacked the team with out of area recruited players like J.R. Hasty, E.J Savanah, and had a couple of 5th yr seniors as well. They sent DLS old outdated game tapes, but made sure to hire new coaches and came up with sneaky trick plays they had never used before. Bellevue was one of the most unethical football teams in the country. The recruiting and the diploma mill they had got exposed on a national level,, and Goncharoff eventually got fired, assistant coaches left, and they are total nobody's since then. What comes around, goes around.
As for other teams, they got their asses kicked against Katy, and got pushed around and held scoreless against sub-par Grant of Sacramento. They didn't dominate Long Beach Poly, and Poly wasn't an elite team anyways. Had they played DLS any other year than 2004, they would have been pummeled badly.
@@martialarts4life393 how was grant sub par when they won the state title over poly and was top 5 in the nation lol
THE GAME OF THE CENTURY WAS THE 2006 ROSE BOWL
That was a good one too
Does anyone have Miami northwestern vs southlake Carroll full game with sound
First time I watched MJD
foot note to this match up...del la salle whacked poly again nxt yr 2002 at concord 28-7 dominating performance poly defensive plays wore towels stating DREW WHO...and drew ran all over them big time.
Freddie Parish, Poly’s 4star starting safety in the 2002 rematch, wore a backplate with Drew’s picture on saying, “Drew Who?”.
Rico knows brought me here!
Would have been better if you edited out the commercials before uploading.
Poly had 6 future nfl players on that team
They had progessive commercials in 2001? Or was this a rerun on tv
Re-run. They're advertising movies that weren't out in 2001
This is another testimony that Cali has been the best in The nation for years
@noturbusiness123 numbers don't lie
We play some pretty damn great football down here in Texas. Year in, year out we are a recruiting and scouting hotbed.
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I was there. Me Jerry wilson Ed hansen and the wilson family southwest airlines trip.
There might not be another high school football game throughout history that had more talent on the field. Both of these teams were absolutely loaded! I’d have to give LBP the edge in overall talent however, De Lasalle was obviously the much better team.
do have the any games of Poly from the 2004-2005 2005-2006 season
Brandon Brooks threw 3 touchdowns that were dropped. Would've changed the game.
For sure!
Do you have the DLS Mater Dei game? That was the big test for DLS
I do. And yes, that was a big test for De La Salle.
@@FTBLDepot can you put that up? I haven’t seen it. The first game with DJ Williams
DLS was too good
What happened to the other games you use to have on this channel
I took them down
@@FTBLDepot Why, I know a bunch of people were loving you posting those classic high school football games. You should bring em back and more, I got a small list of games I was gone see if u have to post
Dennis was that guy in pop warner league.
Big facts
Played in AZ at this time but we all watched this fn game!!!!
Being in the South, a lot of the high school games played on Fox Sports 2 were blacked out.. I lucked up and caught this one. Thank God.
How does De La Salle O-line get off the ball like that
Coach Lad had those guys on point
@@FTBLDepot Incredible. Almost false starting its that's fast
'97 Dominguez vs poly #1
Damn 97 Dominguez team
Jason Thomas
Willie Hurst
I was a freshman that year Dominguez lost to Poly that year though great Dominguez team
Where was this game bay area or at poly?
Poly
I've watched games between Crenshaw and BAnning that were closer and had more future NFL players.
Lot of future Bruins and Trojans on this field. Maurice Drew and Marcedes Lewis to UCLA; Manuel Wright, Darnell Bing, Hershel Dennis and Winston Justice to USC.
Poly Fab Five
The guy at the start frank Martin is my teacher like frfr
Nice.
Thanks!
The game of the century. It's 2001.
*21st Century
did Terrance Kelly play in this game
I don’t think he did…
Went to this game on my birthday
Oct 6th 2001. What a great night.
I was rooting for Long Beach Poly, but De La Salle was a machine.
I was rooting for Poly too. If Derrick Jones caught that pass on their opening drive, it would have been a different game.
Rico knows sent me