Pigskin Parade
Pigskin Parade is a 1936 musical comedy film which tells the story of husband and wife college football coaches who convince a backwoods player to play for their team so they can go to the big Bowl Game. It was written by William M. Conselman, Mary Kelly, Nat Perrin, Arthur Sheekman, Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen, and was directed by David Butler.
Due to a misunderstanding, Yale inadvertently invites the small Texas State University to come to Connecticut and play against its football team for a benefit game. Coincidentally, TSU has just hired a new coach, Slug Winters Jack Haley, who arrives at the college with his wife Bessie Patsy Kelly just in time to hear the announcement that the team is to play Yale.The coach digs in to whip the team into shape, with Bessies help, she knowing more about football than Slug does. But just before the big game, Bessie causes an accident and the teams quarterback Biff Bentley breaks his leg. All seems hopeless until Slug and Bessie stumble across an Arkansas hillbilly named Amos Dodd, played by Stuart Erwin, who throws a football like no one theyve ever seen. They find him tossing melons with his sister, Sairy Judy Garland. ........
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