This is a very cute movie with with the relationship between father Steve Williams (John Wayne) and his daughter Carol (Sherry Jackson). Enter a third party, social worker Alice Singleton (Donna Reed) who is investigating at the insistence of the ex-wife (Marie Windsor) who has been away for five years. At the same time Williams is hired to coach football by Father Burke (Charles Coburn) for Saint Anthony's. They have never been good at football, but need to do something as they school is facing closure if they can't make some money. Williams turns the team around by having an older group of freshman play who are really coal miners or down on their luck otherwise. He recruits a player who played a professional game in Canada. This all turns around on him after his first game and his ex reports the players. It also seems he will lose his daughter to his ex-wife. The court hearing doesn't turn out as expected, and everything is up in the air in the end. Except perhaps a budding relationship between the social worker and the father.
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