00:00How to play football.
00:23Football needs special equipment.
00:24A college covered with ivy.
00:26A coliseum or stadium filled to overflowing with 100,000 rabid, wildly cheering fans.
00:34Great armies of vendors, managers, mascots, photographers, sports writers, doctors, elaborate brass bands, assorted coaches, old grads, scores of Annie Oakleys, and two teams resplendent in brilliant uniforms create a riot of color and atmosphere unequaled by any other game on earth.
00:51Now the object of the game is to pass the ball over the goal line of the opposing team by hook or hook.
00:5911 men on high of the team, two ends, and that's how the game is played.
01:03Now the teams line up for the kickoff.
01:07The referee blows his whistle.
01:08And the game is on.
01:10It's a long, high end-over-end kick over the end zone into the arms of Swivel Hipsmith, that great All-American star triple threat scat back.
01:16Look at him go.
01:17They can't touch him.
01:18He can really carry the mail, that boy.
01:19Look at that open field running.
01:20Look at that straight arm.
01:21He's away, and he's over for a touchdown.
01:23Well, it isn't often you see this happen.
01:26105 yards to a touchdown on the opening kickoff.
01:30Now here's the try for the extra point.
01:32And the kick is good.
01:34And the score is 7-0.
01:37Here comes Swivel Hipsmith out of the game.
01:39Listen to that cheer.
01:42The coach is saving Smith.
01:44He's not taking any chances with his star player.
01:47Back to the game.
01:49Taxidermy Tech kicks off to Anthropology A&M.
01:51But the ball is fumbled, yes, and now it's taxidermy Tech's ball.
01:54They go into a huddle.
01:56The quarterback or field general looks over the defense and decides which number to call.
02:00They come quickly out of the huddle.
02:02The line shifts into position.
02:04The quarterback barks his signals.
02:08The backfield shifts.
02:10The ball is snapped.
02:11The quarterback fakes it to the halfback, gives it to the fullback.
02:14The front pile drafts for a center for a gain of 8 yards.
02:18And that quarterback's a smart boy.
02:21All right, all right.
02:25Signals.
02:2618, 29, 37, 63, 54, 99.
02:30The team's working like a well-oiled machine.
02:34It's a double wing back to the right from an unbalanced line.
02:37A man in motion.
02:37The halfback's got it off tackle.
02:39And he's smeared for a 9-yard loss.
02:41What a dumb quarterback.
02:43To the spectator, football may appear rather rough at times.
02:47But in reality, it's a character-building game.
02:50All right, taxidermy's ball.
02:52Third down and 11 to go.
02:53De Grotti has the ball.
02:54He gives it to Gershman.
02:55No, Sibley's got it.
02:57There it goes to right.
02:57No, no, it's a fake.
02:58A hidden ball.
02:59Criss-cross, cross-buck, end-around, double-ladder, razzle-dazzle, spinner-split-buck.
03:03And he's in the clear.
03:09Uh-oh, there's a penalty on the play.
03:11It's against taxidermy Tech.
03:13One, two, three, four, five, 15 yards for unnecessary roughness.
03:20Now, it's fourth down and 26 to go for T&T.
03:23The quarterback is worried.
03:24The coach radiates confidence.
03:28The quarterback decides to kick.
03:33It's blocked.
03:36No, he got it away.
03:37It's a high spiral.
03:39The safety man's under it.
03:41He muffed it.
03:43It's a loose ball.
03:44Number 48's in fast.
03:45Oops, butterfingers.
03:47Moose Williams got it.
03:48He had it.
03:48Now, De Grotti missed it.
03:49Sebrin boots it to the 50.
03:50There it goes to the 35.
03:51It's a text ball.
03:52No, wow.
03:53Right wrenched it away, and it's A&M's.
03:55No, everybody drops it.
03:56Nobody's got it.
03:57A hundred-yard fumble.
03:58A free ball over Tech's goal line.
03:59But here comes Nordberg.
04:01He's recovering the old pork skin for a six.
04:03What a play.
04:05The teams line up for the try for the extra point.
04:08There's the kick, and it's blocked.
04:11Anthropology A&M receives, and they're nailed on the 25-yard strike.
04:20What's the quarterback going to call?
04:22It looks like a pass.
04:23It is a pass.
04:25Geronimo fades back, cocks his arm, rifles a bullet pass into the flat.
04:33It's intercepted by Anthropology.
04:35Here's the 40-yard marker, the 30, the 20, the 10, and he's over for a touchdown.
04:46There's the try for the extra point.
04:47It's good, or is it?
04:51Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, and there's the gun ending the half.
04:56Well, here's one for the books.
04:59The officials put their heads together, they reach their decision, and the score at the
05:03end of the half, taxidermy seven, Anthropology twelve and one hand.
05:08T-A-X-I-D-E-R-M-Y.
05:16T-A-X-I-D-E-R-M-Y.
05:19T-A-X-I-D-E-R-M-Y.
05:22Pastor.
05:22Pastor.
05:23Pastor.
05:25Yeah.
05:27During the half, the players are allowed to relax.
05:30The coach, who is a master of psychology, points out their weaknesses.
05:34To prevent overconfidence, he shames them.
05:37Arouses their school spirit.
05:39A man of many moods.
05:40Now threatening, now pleading.
05:42A saint.
05:44A devil.
05:45He has varied and subtle ways of appealing to their sympathy.
05:48Now get up, you ass!
05:50Fight!
05:50Back on the field, the second half's about to start.
05:53Smith's going in.
05:54Listen to that cheer.
05:56There's the kick.
05:57Swivel hips is under it.
05:58A host of anthropologists close in, but he breaks away.
06:01Ten, twenty, thirty.
06:02Look at him go.
06:03Forty, fifty.
06:04They can't stop him.
06:04Listen to that crowd.
06:05Sixty, seventy, eighty.
06:06Look at that straight arm.
06:07He's in the clear.
06:07Ninety, ninety-five.
06:08And he's over for a...
06:10Wow!
06:11He's hit and hit hard.
06:13This is a real blow to the coach.
06:15They're taking Smith out.
06:17It's a tough break for the team.
06:19They're working on swivel hips, Smith.
06:21Tech is snowed under by a wave of tackle.
06:23The coach is feverishly trying to revive Smith.
06:29Time is running out.
06:31And taxidermy is up against a stone wall.
06:37Desperately, they work an old swivel.
06:38Only time for one more play.
06:39Look at Smith on his feet.
06:40He's going in.
06:41The crowd goes wild.
06:41Anything can happen.
06:42The team's fired up.
06:43Here's the play.
06:44Smith's got the ball.
06:44He's away.
06:45Look at that blocking.
06:48Smith reverses the field.
06:49They're clearing the way.
06:50Not a man on his feet.
06:51Smith cuts back.
06:51The crowd is hysterical.
06:54It's Smith tight roping down the sideline.
06:56Smith breaks into the clear.
06:57But look, there's an anthropology man on his feet.
06:58One second to go.
06:59What a game.
07:00And here comes a tackler.
07:01Run, Smith, run.
07:03Smith's tired.
07:04Having trouble with the ball.
07:05The NM man is gaining.
07:06He leaves his feet.
07:07Look out.
07:07Look.
07:10There's the final gun.
07:12And Smith wins for taxidermy Tech by half a point.
07:18To the coach goes the real credit.
07:21It's his clear thinking and calm, level-headed reasoning
07:26that makes football the great game it is today.
