Down By Six

<p>Father and son American transplants to Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada set out to coach football together.</p><p>With hand-me-down gear no facilities no money no training equipment and no youth steeped in football traditions they unleashed their hard-nosed no-excuses brand of football. Their small unsuspecting working-class town was on the map in two short years as its Parksville Posse community league team captured the British Columbia provincial (state) championship crown.</p><p>Marshaling a posse of supporters and bringing a third American transplant on board they took their brand of football to the local high school. In just their second season the Ballenas Whalers finished as runners-up in the championship game and in their third season as AA high school provincial (state) champions!</p><p>Down By Six is their story. Starting with little more than a desire to spend time together how did this father and son team create two championship programs in a town that everyone said was too small for such things?<br><br>(340 pages and 86000 word count)</p>