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.
Dick Powell
as Phil "Sarge" Sargeant
Ann Dvorak
as Claire Gore
Pat O’Brien
as Coach Gore
Arthur Byron
as Phillip Sargent
Lyle Talbot
as Buck Weaver
Hugh Herbert
as Barnett
Arthur Hohl
as Seymour Young
Charles C. Wilson
as Charles Hauser
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
as Matthews
Nat Pendleton
as Petrowski
Phillip Reed
as Westerman
Donald Meek
as Spencer Trask
