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Released December 08, 1934
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia
18.5 min. (Short Subject)

Moe, Larry and Curly are three out-of-work tramps who are hired to promote a university football team. They're soon mistaken for the school's famous star athletes, "The Three Horsemen." As the star athletes, the Stooges are hired by a gangster to secretly play on his professional team, but of course the boys know nothing about football and bring their own set of skills to the game.

Costarring Lucille Ball.

Larry said that there were numerous injuries while this short was made, including him losing a tooth when he was socked by Joseph Young (actor Robert Young's brother), and Curly broke his leg after riding down the dumbwaiter. In the scene with the photographers during the football game, Larry insisted the studio use stunt doubles, one of whom was badly injured.

The original ending had the Stooges retelling the story to their children, but only photo stills remain of that footage (see Moe Howard & the 3 Stooges pp. 6-7, 68-69, 79 and 81). The scripted version with the Stooges' sons was published in The Three Stooges Book of Scripts, by Joan Howard Maurer, Citadel Press 1987.

Opening title music is "Eastmoor College March," by Louis Silvers; see The Three Stooges Journal # 87 (Fall 1998).

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Daisy Simms

Gertie Green
Lulu Banks

Phyllis Crane
Molly Gray

Lynton Brent
Man panhandled by Moe

Jimmy Phillips
2nd man panhandled by Moe

Larry Wheat
3rd man panhandled by Moe

Bobby Burns
Man panhandled by Larry

Johnny Kascier
Man panhandled by Curly

Harry Bowen
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Photographer

Charles Dorety
Photographer

Alex Hirschfeld
Little Moe, scenes deleted

Joe Levine
Little Larry, scenes deleted

Billy Wolfstone
Little Curly, scenes deleted


Jules White
Producer

Felix Adler
Story and Screenplay

Griffin Jay
Story and Screenplay

Henry Freulich
Photography

James Sweeney
Film Editor

Charles Althouse
Sound Engineer

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