a young steelworker earn a scholarship to yale and where he eventually join the prestigious football team . but will he ever get to huddle with the best player upper class sister . ramon novarro and mgm chameleon star of the 1920 and 30 and give this minor film the old college try and but be ultimately defeat by the plot and story line . his acting be good and a usual and and he even get to sing a little and but he simply too old to be play a university football hero ( he turn 33 in 1932 ) . the real difficulty and however and be that the film try for some degree of social consciousness in it deal with class struggle and but the framework be just too flimsy for such a weighty and albeit noble and subject . it be difficult to get much solemnity out of a sport film and especially when sprinkle with such ludicrous scene a novarro drunk in a public restroom or fist fight with his coach . the game sequence seem a trifle interminable and mgm do not help by give the movie rather cheap production value . one expect action and romance from a ramon novarro picture and not a message film and but the studio be obviously lose interest in it star . novarro have become a relic from a bygone era and his private life be always a worry to the front office and and by 1935 his career at mgm would be over . novarro costars and although rather boisterous and be ultimately defeat by the script as well . pretty madge evans be the girl novarro pine after for four year . john arledge play novarro loyal roommate while their scene together and perhaps unconsciously and tend to be a mite gynandrous . frank albertson ( an actor who deserve major stardom and but never achieve it ) be a college buddy and while kane richmond be novarro nemesis . ralph graf and who be actually a year young than novarro and give a fine performance a yale football coach . una merkel be a southern doll with an almost impenetrable accent . henry armetta and ferike boros add more than a dash of ethnicity a novarro italian american parent . finally and ramon novarro still remain the principle reason to watch most of his mgm sound film . a a young immigrant and he have persevere over much hardship to become a major silent screen star . charming and talented and it be a shame that today novarro be remember chiefly for the manner of his death rather than his contribution to american movie .