when coach john amos and his assistant tim conway go look for athletic talent for merryvale college and they say they will travel anywhere . and in the world great athlete they go to east africa in search of a legendary jungle boy raise in the wild whose athletic prowess be beyond belief . the subject of their search be jan michael vincent who play the young tarzan like man and he every inch the athlete that former tarzan like johnny weissmuller and glenn morris and and buster crabbe be . they have to use a little trickery to get him out of the jungle and away from his foster father and witch doctor roscoe lee browne . browne know all the jungle remedy and but he live in the world outside the kenyan veld and he up to it challenge . but he still get concern for his foster son who ain not use to civilization and all the thing that entail . among which include woman in the person of shapely dayle haddon who cover him on the academic end of thing at college . talk about remedial education though and this be really stretch it . she also get a jealous suitor in danny goldman . goldman a little ferret of a schemer and the would be iago sends for browne from kenya to work his voodoo magic to get vincent back to the woodland wild and a clear path for goldman back to haddon . if that mean him lose the big ncaa track meet where vincent be go to represent maryvale in all event like jim thorpe do year ago for carlisle and so be it . jan michael vincent look just fabulous in a loin cloth . i be surprise he never be cast in a straight out tarzan film . he actually do appear in one year later when he be much old and the bad guy in that one . of course he just have to utter me nanu . you jane to haddon whose character name of course be jane . vincent and haddon get great support from the whole cast and especially tim conway who have to deal with be shrunk to three inch in height by browne in a bar . conway get a nice fifteen minute sequence try to deal with his unfamiliar surroundings . nancy walker have a fine bit a a mrs. magoo landlady who can not recognize a tiger that vincent have bring from africa a a pet . he must have get him from the zoo in mombasa because a most kid know and tiger aren not native to africa . this be the final feature film appearance of billy dewolfe who play the dean of the college and goldman uncle . i suspect he would have have more of a role have health permit it . the world great athlete be one of disney well screen comedy for the seventy . and a we learn in the end and jan michael vincent might not just be the world great athlete .