The Spirit of Notre Dame

Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.

Cast

Lew Ayres

as Edward Aloysius "Bucky" O'Brian

Sally Blane

as Peggy

William Bakewell

as Jim Stewart

Andy Devine

as Ernest "Truck" McCall

Harry Barris

as William Appleton Shellingdon Pelt ("Wasp")

J. Farrell MacDonald

as The Coach

Nat Pendleton

as Assistant Coach

Frank Carideo

as Self

Don Miller

as The Four Horsemen

Elmer Layden

as The Four Horsemen

Reviews

CyrusPK

I saw this Universal film (from the same year as Frankenstein) on a very degraded print on You Tube. The film works well though at capturing a moment in history, showing the American Football talents of Notre Dame at a point in time immediately after the death of their well regarded coach, Knute ...

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