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Taking all the places on both teams, Goofy demonstrates the game of football with varying results, having problems with the coach and the goal post.Taking all the places on both teams, Goofy demonstrates the game of football with varying results, having problems with the coach and the goal post.Taking all the places on both teams, Goofy demonstrates the game of football with varying results, having problems with the coach and the goal post.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Photos
Frank Bull
- Commentator
- (uncredited)
Pinto Colvig
- Goofy
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Jack Kinney
- Audience Crowd
- (uncredited)
John Sibley
- Audience Crowd
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Jack Kinney(uncredited)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDisney short cartoons from this period generally did not carry on-screen credits for voices, as is the case with this cartoon. Some believe, incorrectly, that the voice of the narrator is Billy Bletcher, the character actor and voice artist notable for such Disney work as the Big Bad Wolf in The Three Little Pigs and as Dwarfs Grumpy and Sleepy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- Quotes
[the Taxidermy Tech quarterback has been smeared for a nine-yard loss]
Sportscaster: What a dumb quarterback!
- Alternate versionsThe original print has special scoreboard opening titles, to reflect the football scoreboards.
- ConnectionsEdited into Hockey Homicide (1945)
Featured review
People and Other Things Come & Go; but FOOTBALL is a Constant
PERHAPS THIS ANIMATED short film (aka "Cartoon") owes so much of its widely acknowledged success with both the Public and the Critics due to the bridging of the gap between two seemingly different worlds. On the one hand you have College Football and on the other our friend GOOFY'S habit of fracturing anything and everything. (Spoofing, that is!)
ALTHOUGH THIS CARTOON is old enough to be on both Social Security and Medicare by now, it is still fresh and relevant; proving that the Gridiron just hasn't really changed that much. Plastic shell helmets, face masks of varying elaborately intricacy and competing varieties have found their way into the various stadia, but no matter. Football is still football and so are its fans.
SO WE FIND ourselves at the big game between arch rivals Taxidermy Tech and traditional foe, Anthropology A & M. Goofy is the star and possibly the whole team and cast; as every character is a variation of the formerly named "Dippy Dog". The roster of both varsity squads are populated with some very active Goofy clones.
THE CARTOON EXPLORES each and every cliché that is peculiar to the sport, some even seeming to invent a few new ones. We go through the litany of: "Barking Out the Signals", "Well Oiled Machine", "Throwing a Bullet" and "Swivel Hips". All could have well proved to be tiresome and trite; but they are so well handled and woven into the breakneck speed action that they do serve their purposes so well.
THE OTHER AMENITIES that are offered here are: the outstanding Technicolor photography, crisp & clear sound and a befittingly peppy and energetic score; with both the theme and the incidental music's type and tempo added so much to what is such a sight-gag oriented medium.
THE FINE FIGHTSONG march that opens up all the festivities sounds as if it is an original; but is pleasing and complex enough to be that of some college or university. It was apparently a thought shared by the Disney staff as well; as the colorful tune was reprised for a second go round as the main theme for Disney's 1953 cartoon, FOOYTBALL NOW AND THEN.
ALTHOUGH THIS CARTOON is old enough to be on both Social Security and Medicare by now, it is still fresh and relevant; proving that the Gridiron just hasn't really changed that much. Plastic shell helmets, face masks of varying elaborately intricacy and competing varieties have found their way into the various stadia, but no matter. Football is still football and so are its fans.
SO WE FIND ourselves at the big game between arch rivals Taxidermy Tech and traditional foe, Anthropology A & M. Goofy is the star and possibly the whole team and cast; as every character is a variation of the formerly named "Dippy Dog". The roster of both varsity squads are populated with some very active Goofy clones.
THE CARTOON EXPLORES each and every cliché that is peculiar to the sport, some even seeming to invent a few new ones. We go through the litany of: "Barking Out the Signals", "Well Oiled Machine", "Throwing a Bullet" and "Swivel Hips". All could have well proved to be tiresome and trite; but they are so well handled and woven into the breakneck speed action that they do serve their purposes so well.
THE OTHER AMENITIES that are offered here are: the outstanding Technicolor photography, crisp & clear sound and a befittingly peppy and energetic score; with both the theme and the incidental music's type and tempo added so much to what is such a sight-gag oriented medium.
THE FINE FIGHTSONG march that opens up all the festivities sounds as if it is an original; but is pleasing and complex enough to be that of some college or university. It was apparently a thought shared by the Disney staff as well; as the colorful tune was reprised for a second go round as the main theme for Disney's 1953 cartoon, FOOYTBALL NOW AND THEN.
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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