Drama
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
Directed by
William A. Wellman
John Wayne
Ward Bond
Assistant Coach (uncredited)
Dick Powell
Phil "Sarge" Sargeant
Lyle Talbot
Buck Weaver
Dave O'Brien
Student on Tennis Court (uncredited)
Joe Sawyer
Holcomb
Herman Bing
Prof. Glantz
Pat O’Brien
Coach Gore
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Matthews
Phillip Reed
Westerman
Ann Dvorak
Claire Gore
Donald Meek
Spencer Trask
Nat Pendleton
Petrowski
Milton Kibbee
Photographer (uncredited)
Arthur Byron
Phillip Sargent
Arthur Hohl
Seymour Young
Sam McDaniel
Lunch Wagon Proprietor (uncredited)
Harry Beresford
Professor
Charles C. Wilson
Charles Hauser
Berton Churchill
Otis
Hugh Herbert
Barnett
Larry Steers
Man with Check (uncredited)
Philip Faversham
Editor

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