in this case asl, american sign language.ot only more efficient than jogging back and forth from field to huddle, it is unifying. the junior wide receiver recalled how it felt to play on a hearing team through an interpreter. >> lik aau, i like playing on the hearing team but communication is always an issue. frustration, when trying to deal with a coach and trying to communicate with the coach, now if you have a deaf coach, then that is better. >> keith adams who himself played on deaf and hearing football teams going up says the team success comes from the support you need to being at a school for the deaf. >> they come from various background, different skin color, different status, family status. the commonality is they are deaf. i think that helps. i think, those who experience maybe mainstream education, it was a lonely time. they just have so much more opportunity as a deaf student going to a school for the deaf. >> for the author, writing they "boys of riverside" was what he called a tonic from his typical stories, co