Father Was a Fullback

I WANTED TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY ~ so I married a football coach!

Father Was a Fullback — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 30, 1949
• Runtime
• 84 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• John M. Stahl

Father Was a Fullback — Cast

Fred MacMurray George Cooper Maureen O'Hara Elizabeth Cooper Betty Lynn Connie Cooper Natalie Wood Ellen Cooper Rudy Vallee Mr. Jessup Thelma Ritter Geraldine Jim Backus Professor Sullivan

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Richard Tyler Joe Birch