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Father Was a Fullback

Father Was a Fullback

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 30, 1949

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

60%

Original Title

Father Was a Fullback

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Director

John M. Stahl

Description

Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.