WATCH YOUR FAVORITE
MOVIES & TV SERIES ONLINE
TRY FREE TRIAL
Home > Drama >

The Spirit of Stanford

Watch The Spirit of Stanford For Free

The Spirit of Stanford

Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albert.

... more
Release : 1942
Rating : 3.2
Studio : Columbia Pictures, 
Crew : Director,  Screenplay, 
Cast : Marguerite Chapman Matt Willis Shirley Patterson Kay Harris Lloyd Bridges
Genre : Drama Romance

Cast List

Related Movies

100%: Julian Edelman
100%: Julian Edelman

100%: Julian Edelman   2019

Release Date: 
2019

Rating: 7.2

genres: 
Documentary
Stars: 
Julian Edelman  /  Tom Brady  /  Michael Rapaport
Little Children
Little Children

Little Children   2006

Release Date: 
2006

Rating: 7.5

genres: 
Drama  /  Romance
Stars: 
Kate Winslet  /  Patrick Wilson  /  Jennifer Connelly
M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H   1970

Release Date: 
1970

Rating: 7.4

genres: 
Drama  /  Comedy  /  War
Stars: 
Donald Sutherland  /  Elliott Gould  /  Tom Skerritt
Out of the Shadow
Out of the Shadow

Out of the Shadow   1961

Release Date: 
1961

Rating: 5

genres: 
Mystery
Stars: 
Terence Longdon  /  Donald Gray  /  Diane Clare
The Fortune Cookie
The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie   1966

Release Date: 
1966

Rating: 7.2

genres: 
Comedy
Stars: 
Jack Lemmon  /  Walter Matthau  /  Ron Rich
2:37
2:37

2:37   2006

Release Date: 
2006

Rating: 6.8

genres: 
Drama
Stars: 
Teresa Palmer  /  Sam Harris  /  Gary Sweet
High Expectations
High Expectations

High Expectations   2022

Release Date: 
2022

Rating: 5.5

genres: 
Drama  /  Family
Stars: 
Kelsey Grammer  /  Taylor Gray  /  Shaun MacLean
The Wanderers
The Wanderers

The Wanderers   1979

Release Date: 
1979

Rating: 7.3

genres: 
Drama
Stars: 
Ken Wahl  /  John Friedrich  /  Karen Allen
Scream 2
Scream 2

Scream 2   2022

Release Date: 
2022

Rating: 6.3

genres: 
Horror  /  Mystery
Stars: 
Neve Campbell  /  Courteney Cox  /  David Arquette
Leatherheads
Leatherheads

Leatherheads   2008

Release Date: 
2008

Rating: 6

genres: 
Drama  /  Comedy  /  Romance
The Longest Yard
The Longest Yard

The Longest Yard   1974

Release Date: 
1974

Rating: 7.1

genres: 
Drama  /  Comedy
Stars: 
Burt Reynolds  /  Eddie Albert  /  Ed Lauter
Semi-Tough
Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough   1977

Release Date: 
1977

Rating: 5.9

genres: 
Drama  /  Comedy  /  Romance

Reviews

filippaberry84
2018/08/30

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

More
Mandeep Tyson
2018/08/30

The acting in this movie is really good.

More
Curt
2018/08/30

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

More
Dana
2018/08/30

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

More
john_meyer
2013/03/18

The movie is lame, and the acting is strictly amateur. However, the stock footage of Stanford is wonderful, and the actual game footage is excellent, and for fans of old football, priceless.There are some interesting musical numbers which are actually not that bad, in their own way. It is also amusing to briefly see Lloyd Bridges in one of his first screen appearances. He has bit parts in at least two scenes. He had a long career, and fathered two well-known actors, Jeff & Beau.If I were reviewing the movie as an entertainment vehicle, I'd give it a three-star rating, but because of the Stanford shots and actual football scenes, I rate it higher.BTW, the "Stanford Stadium" shots are actually the Rose Bowl, I think.

More
Floyd Bekins
1999/11/16

Frank Albert, Stanford's All American quarterback, the main character in the movie "The Spirit of Stanford", was played by himself, and he was credited as such when the film was shown in theaters.The Stanford football team had lost nearly all of its games in the fall of 1939, when Albert was a sophomore. Sports writers predicted even worse results for 1940 when Stanford hired the coach of the team of the University of Chicago, which had not only lost all of its games in 1939, but had even cancelled its football program permanently.The new coach was Clark Shaughnessy, who, while in Chicago, had worked as a consultant to the Chicago Bears in developing a new style of offense: the T-Formation.In all previous systems, the center had to put both of his hands on the ball and start the play while looking upside down through his legs and passing the ball back to one of the four players in the backfield. But in the new "T", which became the basis of all modern football, as players and fans have seen the game since then, the play starts with the center facing straight ahead as an effective offensive blocking lineman, and using only one hand to lift the football back through his legs into the waiting hands of the quarterback, who turns and hands it (or passes it back or laterally) to one of the running backs, or keeps it and runs with it, or passes it forward to a receiver.The sports writers were unimpressed by this combination of losers and their "Model-T" machine, kept under wraps in secret practice sessions. They predicted, each week of that season, that Stanford would lose the following Saturday's game.When the team proved them wrong by beating every opponent on their schedule that fall, the "experts" still predicted they would lose the Rose Bowl Game against Nebraska, especially when the Cornhuskers coach took his team the day before the New Year's day classic to watch the T-Formation executed by the visiting Chicago Bears, winning against the local Los Angeles Bulldogs. They were wrong again. Watching it from stadium bleachers is not the same as facing it on the gridiron.The new Stanford team, which the writers had christened "The Wow Boys", had going for it the advantage of surprise, with the newness of the "T". But their real "edge" was something else -- that which football coaches try to instill in today's teams: a positive attitude spurred by heightened emotion. That new element, which those former losers had gained, and which inspired this movie's title, was "The Spirit of Stanford".After graduation and Navy service in World War II, Albert continued his football career as the original quarterback of the newly-formed San Francisco Forty-Niners, and later, as its coach.

More
Watch Instant, Get Started Now Watch Instant, Get Started Now