Father Was a Fullback

Father Was a Fullback

30/9/1949 1h 24m 6.0/10

Overview

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.

Director

John M. Stahl

Top Billed Cast

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood

Ellen Cooper

Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara

Elizabeth Cooper

Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

George Cooper

Thelma Ritter

Thelma Ritter

Geraldine

Rudy Vallee

Rudy Vallee

Mr. Jessup

Betty Lynn

Betty Lynn

Connie Cooper

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