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Plot

College rivals Don Whitney and Joe Nolan clash in the Rose Bowl football game in

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, with Don's team victorious. Joe decides to give up football and go to medical school instead, disappointing girlfriend Marian Rutherford, who was hoping Joe would become a rich and famous football hero instead. Joe does change his mind, joining the

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, which Joe's mother finds out by watching the Rams' game versus the

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on a television that Whitney has given to Joe's sister Ruth as a gift. Deliberately injured by Don in a pro football game, Joe is pleased at first when Don is banned from playing in an all-star game. But with the game in progress, Joe has a change of heart and fakes an injury, whereupon Don is permitted to enter the game in his place and score the winning touchdown.

Cast

as Ruth Nolan * Richard Crane as Don Whitney *