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A college football star risks his health to play in the big game.
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Haines, a loyal alumnus of Carlton College wills his fortune to the school on condition that they beat football rival State for three years in a row. The will becomes general knowledge when Haines dies before the third game. Meanwhile, Dr. Martin has advised Carlton star football player Ken Thomas that he must stop playing football because another injury might permanently cripple him. He enlists his daughter Lucille, Ken's girl friend, to extract a promise from Ken that he will not play no matter what. Ken will not tell the coach why he refuses to play, so he assumes that Ken wants the fortune to go to the Haines family instead of Carlton because his mother is a distant Haines relative. When he learns the truth from Ken's freshman roommate, Tiny Waldron, the coach wires Lucille in San Francisco, where she is about to sail to China. Lucille immediately wires Ken, releasing him from his promise. The news that Ken will play in the big game excites the entire campus but greatly disturbs the lawyers for the Haines family. To remove Ken from the game and thereby ensure Carlton's loss, the lawyers loan Ken their car to join in some interschool pranks and then report it stolen. Ken tries to explain the situation to the police, but they are reluctant to defy the lawyers. Tiny discovers Ken's location by accident and rouses the entire campus to his rescue. The students are thwarted by the police, however, who arrange for Ken to move to another jail. Ken's driver turns out to be a Carlton supporter, and after Ken finally makes his identity clear, the driver turns around, and delivers him to the field just in time for him to make the winning goal and win the money for Carlton.
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