Steve Novak (John Derek) comes from a Polish-American immigrant family in a small mill town. He gets a chance to go to play college football. His father is eager to have one of his sons escape the mill. He falls for Melissa (Donna Reed), the daughter of a wealthy school benefactor.
This is not the hardest hitting of college football expose movie. It has a few hard hits. Mostly, it shows that football is more important than everything else in the college world. There are a couple of big-ish names in the lead. Every knows Donna Reed. I know John Derek more as an 80's B-movie director with his sexpot wife. He has a fine face for a second-tier leading boy which fits this role very well. The football action is mostly fine and seem to be running at full speed. They do spend a lot of time on the field. All in all, this is fine as it tries to take a serious look at the college football world.
This is not the hardest hitting of college football expose movie. It has a few hard hits. Mostly, it shows that football is more important than everything else in the college world. There are a couple of big-ish names in the lead. Every knows Donna Reed. I know John Derek more as an 80's B-movie director with his sexpot wife. He has a fine face for a second-tier leading boy which fits this role very well. The football action is mostly fine and seem to be running at full speed. They do spend a lot of time on the field. All in all, this is fine as it tries to take a serious look at the college football world.