Good old time football movie and the basis of the story is true - however it shows Coach Russell coming to the orphanage in 1938 when in reality he had been there a decade already by that time.
A lot of liberties had been taken with the story and as one person put it, to include Roosevelt in the story (which of course didn't happen in real life).
If you stay to the end and see how many of the players went on to play football in college and the pros, you wonder how it's even possible - but in reality it's because the football program had already been going for years by the time those particular players were in the program.
Still, an entertaining movie - if you can overlook the cliched villain whose predictable outcome you can see ten minutes into the movie (why would someone whose making money off the team not want them there? Makes zero sense).
I was watching and realized all these young men were the perfect age for WWII and wondered how many were killed in action and according to the end credits, none, so that's great.
Solid movie.
A lot of liberties had been taken with the story and as one person put it, to include Roosevelt in the story (which of course didn't happen in real life).
If you stay to the end and see how many of the players went on to play football in college and the pros, you wonder how it's even possible - but in reality it's because the football program had already been going for years by the time those particular players were in the program.
Still, an entertaining movie - if you can overlook the cliched villain whose predictable outcome you can see ten minutes into the movie (why would someone whose making money off the team not want them there? Makes zero sense).
I was watching and realized all these young men were the perfect age for WWII and wondered how many were killed in action and according to the end credits, none, so that's great.
Solid movie.