Donald Crisp credited as playing...
Father John Callahan C.S.C.
- Knute Rockne: Father, I've decided to take up coaching as my life's work.
- Father John Callahan: Hmmmm.
- Knute Rockne: You think I'm making a mistake, don't you?
- Father John Callahan: Anyone who follows the truth in his heart never makes a mistake.
- Father John Callahan: Who can say for certain what a man was really born to be? That's God's will. Someday Knute will find his right place in the world, and when he does, whether it be science or not, I have a feeling it will be the one he was meant to do.
- Glenn 'Pop' Warner: But we've got to answer them somehow, Rock. You, Spaulding, Stagg, Jones and myself - we've given the best years of our life to this game. We can't stand by now and do nothing.
- Howard Jones: We've come here from all over the country, Rock - hoping you'd go to New York with us, and face this committee.
- Alonzo Stagg: It's for the boys - millions of boys throughout the country! It's *their* game we're fighting for.
- Bill Spaulding: Pop Warner is right - we can't ignore their charges. Have you read all they've said about us?
- Knute Rockne: Sure - I've read every word of it. Public educators, huh? Never read such a lot of lies in my life.
- Alonzo Stagg: Yes, Rock - we know that. But *they* don't know it. They're not really vicious men - they're simply misled.
- Knute Rockne: The public is never misled by this kind of stuff.
- Father John Callahan: The public believes anything it reads in the newspapers, Knute - unless it's denied in type just as large, and preferably larger.