Father was a Fullback is a 1949 black-and-white Twentieth Century Fox film
based on a comedy by Clifford Goldsmith.
The film is about a college American football coach and his woes.
The film stars Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood, and Betty Lynn.
This film, primarily a vehicle for Fred MacMurray,
with great co-star Maureen
It also featured a young Natalie Wood.
Author: pcronin from Chicago
QuoteGeorge Cooper(Fred MacMurray)is the losingest coach State U has ever known. A well meaning square fresh from Elm Tree High, his team has potential but is yet to win a game in this his first season, which will make or break him. Comic relief comes in the form of his family's maid who knows to always bet against his team, and two daughters: Natalie Wood as a scruffy tomboy spouting poetic slang in which I must say is her best role, and Betty Lynn(who in real life is actually only eight years younger than Maureen O'Hara)as an angst-ridden hormonal teen with no writers block nor lack of pubescent imagination when she secretly sends in a unique offing to "True Romance" magazine. Her true calling apparently does not help matters any, except when it turns out that Joe Burch, the ploy her parents use to bring her out of her shell, turns out to be a high school football hero all the colleges have been bartering for. He had been intending to go to the leading team school, but in the end decided State U, "to be near Connie...she's the first thing I liked more than a football...." Hurrah! The team now has an official starting star for next season, and George's coaching contract will be renewed. A Happy End.