Movies about American football
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- DirectorCharles RayStarsCharles RayMary AndersonLionel BelmoreA star of the college football team is forced to work as a milkman when his father's business begins to fail.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsDolores CostelloWilliam Collier Jr.Douglas GerrardThe College Widow (1927) is an American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Archie Mayo. The film is based on the 1904 Broadway play by George Ade and was previously adapted to film in 1915 with Ethel Clayton. The 1927 silent film version is a starring vehicle for Dolores Costello.
- 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.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsRobert AgnewPauline GaronBen TurpinBob and Jim start out at college as rivals, but soon become great friends. When Bob takes pretty Vivian Saunders to the prom, Jim is disappointed--he wanted to take her--but decides to make the best of it. However, when Bob becomes the school's football here, Jim's jealousy of his friend starts to really come out.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsJack HoltRichard CromwellJoan MarshBob plays football badly, so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy, and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRussell MackGeorge StevensStarsRichard ArlenAndy DevineGloria StuartThe story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsPhillips HolmesDorothy JordanCharles RugglesCollege football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody).He refuses, but they player is doped anyway,and collapses and dies. A Detective (David Landau) has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
- DirectorDudley MurphyStarsJoel McCreaMarian MarshWilliam GarganSpoiled sports hero learns hard lessons.
- 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.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsVictor McLaglenGreta NissenNell O'DayGambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
- 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.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsRobert YoungAndy DevineLeila HyamsUps and downs of college football.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsBing CrosbyJack OakieRichard ArlenA college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.