A scene from Knute Rockne, All American 1940

Glenn 'Pop' Warner: But we've got to answer them somehow, Rock. You, Spaulding, Stagg, Jones and myself - we've given the best years of our life to this game. We can't stand by now and do nothing.

Howard Jones

We've come here from all over the country, Rock - hoping you'd go to New York with us, and face this committee.

Alonzo Stagg

It's for the boys - millions of boys throughout the country! It's their game we're fighting for.

Bill Spaulding

Pop Warner is right - we can't ignore their charges. Have you read all they've said about us?

Knute Rockne

Sure - I've read every word of it. Public educators, huh? Never read such a lot of lies in my life.

Alonzo Stagg

Yes, Rock - we know that. But they don't know it. They're not really vicious men - they're simply misled.

Knute Rockne

The public is never misled by this kind of stuff.

Father John Callahan

The public believes anything it reads in the newspapers, Knute - unless it's denied in type just as large, and preferably larger.

In this scene

AS Alonzo Stagg Amos Alonzo Stagg
BS Bill Spaulding William 'Bill' Spaulding
Howard Jones Howard Jones

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