The Outlaws began the first Friday in November 1960. It was the fifth soph/frosh football game against Mission High School, a public high school consisting of poor black students from Hunters Point and The Bay View District and poor Mexicans from Potrero Hill and the Mission District. The team had had a miserable week of practice and their Coach had called them misfits and outcasts, because too many mistakes were made. Mission had scored with their first two possessions and St. Nick's was getting its butt kicked. The Coach was humiliating them by yelling the plays from the sidelines. Years of ridicule and intimidation by the nuns, living in the poor part of the city, and surviving the harassment by the neighborhood gangs had festered and their frustration gushed into a flood of rage of anger. The players stood in the huddle and heard the anger in their quarterback's voice. They raised their heads and saw the fire in Augie's eyes when he said, "Gentlemen follow rules. We're...

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