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A large fraction of sports comedy movies down through history feature “ringers” bringing in ineligible players to win unethically. Hiring ringers goes back at least as far as the Marx Brothers’ 1932 talkie (and, boy, is it talkie)
The film revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges. Many of the jokes about the amateur status of collegiate football players and how eligibility rules are stretched by collegiate athletic departments remain remarkably current. Groucho plays Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley College, and Zeppo is his son Frank, who convinces his father to recruit professional football players to help Huxley’s team. … Through a series of misunderstandings, Baravelli (Chico) and Pinky (Harpo) are recruited to play on Huxley’s football team; this requires them to enroll as students at Huxley, which creates chaos throughout the school.