The List of Football Movies
All the football movies known to man, or at least this man. Tell me if I missed something.
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- DirectorStan DragotiStarsScott BakulaHector ElizondoRobert LoggiaDue to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsTom MooreHazel DalySidney AinsworthTom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerSam TaylorStarsHarold LloydJobyna RalstonBrooks BenedictA nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsWilliam HainesJack PickfordMary BrianTom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsHarold 'Red' GrangeMary McAllisterCharles Ogle"Red" Wade, a star high-school football player, has intentions of going to Claxton College, which has a powerhouse football team, but changes his mind when he meets the sister of the pitiful Paramlee team and goes to college there, just as his father, an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Wade, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team, but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton. This puts "Red" between a rock and a hard place.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsRichard DixEsther RalstonHarry BeresfordElmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twenty-seven years later, Elmer is still in school and is a classmate of his son, Jack. Other than driving a milk wagon in his spare time, Jack is also the quarterback of the football team. A matter of his eligibility comes up but he is cleared and goes out to do-or-die for Colton against State University. Maybe they will win The Big Game, and Jack's father can get a life...and a job.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsRichard BarthelmessBarbara KentDorothy RevierCollege football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when tragedy strikes after he pays an innocent visit to a woman.John Wayne's First Movie
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsWilliam HainesJoan CrawfordWilliam BakewellWealthy Brice Wayne enters West Point, excelling at football but angering fellow cadets with arrogance until he resigns, but returns to lead the team and reunite with Betty Channing.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsRod La RocqueJeanette LoffHugh AllanA young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Loretta YoungGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsMarty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for punishment, and he swears to his pal, Honey Smith, and to Coach Wilson that he will quit the game forever. Ed Kirby, who dislikes Reid, calls him yellow, and Wilson gets Patricia Carlyle, the college vamp, to induce Reid to play. At a sorority dance, where only football players can cut in, Kirby persecutes Reid by dancing with Pat, and as a result Reid does apply to play in the game. When he learns of her trickery, however, Reid fumbles in the game, and both he and Kirby are withdrawn and start a fight in the locker room. Convinced that Reid is no coward, Kirby joins him and they win the game.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsElliott NugentRobert MontgomeryCliff EdwardsBiff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. Biff considers Babs his girl, and she does like him more than Eddie, but Eddie is persistent. Everywhere they go, Eddie and Biff are competing for Babs. When Eddie backs off for the sake of the friendship, Babs decides that she wants him, and this causes the friendship to end. Their rivalry even threatens the team's play in the big Stanford football game.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJoan BennettJoe E. BrownJames HallA college football player (Joe E. Brown) persuades a beautiful young woman (Joan Bennett) to individually flirt with an entire team of All-American football players, in order to entice them over to her college. But the players get angry and threaten to walk out when they find out that they have been fooled, and they get even madder when they discover that she has actually fallen in love with one of their own teammates (James Hall).
- DirectorDel LordStarsHarry GribbonGeneva MitchellVernon DentHarry Gribbon is an incredibly talented, but reluctant college football player who is dating one of his teachers, Geneva Mitchell. A jealous rival tries sabotaging Harry.
- DirectorAlbert H. KelleyStarsChristy WalshKnute RockneThe third in the Universal series called the Christy Walsh All American Sports Reel, where narrator Christy Walsh mourns the loss of Notre Dame's famed football coach, Knute Rockne, who died in a plane crash in Kansas in March of 1931.
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsHarold 'Red' GrangeDorothy GulliverWalter MillerA gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
- DirectorRussell MackStarsLew AyresWilliam BakewellJ. Farrell MacDonaldStory of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsRichard ArlenPeggy ShannonJack OakieFootball coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs. However, he has a change of heart when a player is severely injured by playing when he should have been resting. Finally, Dan's school confronts its arch rival and Dan must decide how badly he wants the boys to win.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyEdna May OliverTwo yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo MarxQuincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsRamon NovarroMadge EvansUna MerkelTony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsRichard CromwellDorothy JordanMae MarshTommy Scott goes to a Connecticut college to become a doctor, but is soon discovered to be a prodigious football talent. He becomes a national star and falls in love, but fame and ill-advised financial deals threaten to ruin his future.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMickey Mouse must score a touchdown if his team is to beat the Alley Cats.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsDick PowellAnn DvorakPat O'BrienCoach Gore, a ruthless and cynical big-time football coach, neglects his wife in his unrelenting drive to make Calvert College a football power.
- DirectorRussell MackStarsRobert YoungStuart ErwinLeo CarrilloA judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJoe PennerJack OakieLanny RossThe story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business. (Film debut of radio-comedian Joe "Wanna buy a duck" Penner and singer Lanny Ross.)