Lew Ayres comes to Notre Dame as a freshman, proud of his hometown high school football team, and soon is trained by J. Farrell MacDonald into a very useful football player. Four years later, there's a new crop up, and Ayres feels resentment as William Bakewell gains a national reputation.
There's actual signs of academics in this college football movie. Early on, there's a guy reading from Julius Caesar. Credentials established, it turns into one of those movies in which it's football, football, football, and Sally Blane. Anyway, after Ayres and Bakewell fight, MacDonald can't play them both, so puts perennial sub Andy Devine in. Devine is badly injured, and the baby game with Army is coming up.
Ayres shows some nice acting, a hick in the first half, a debonair collegiate in the second. Knute Rockne was supposed to be the technical advisor on this movie. He was killed in an airplane crash on the way to the West Coast. The movie is dedicated to him.
There's actual signs of academics in this college football movie. Early on, there's a guy reading from Julius Caesar. Credentials established, it turns into one of those movies in which it's football, football, football, and Sally Blane. Anyway, after Ayres and Bakewell fight, MacDonald can't play them both, so puts perennial sub Andy Devine in. Devine is badly injured, and the baby game with Army is coming up.
Ayres shows some nice acting, a hick in the first half, a debonair collegiate in the second. Knute Rockne was supposed to be the technical advisor on this movie. He was killed in an airplane crash on the way to the West Coast. The movie is dedicated to him.