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Coach "Smoky" Mortenson started Davidson, Cassady, and Ziegler on the attack, Schwulst, Birdsall, and Kegg at midfield, Claflin, Lawrence, and MacDonald on the defense, and Chamberlain in the nets. Bozanson, Carrol, Aibel, Kortepeter, Woodruff, Ripley, Spence and Carswell all saw action in the course of the afternoon...
Harvard substitutes -- Allen, Carroll, Ripley, Carswell, Schwulst, Abbot, Woodruff, Kortepeter...
...stiff-necked Prussian sister (Blanche Yurka), his still violently Nazi son-in-law (Tonio Selwart). There is Theodore Bruce (Walter Greaza), a visiting Chicago tycoon who, because business is business, would give Benckendorff cartel blanche; there are various indifferent, homesick American soldiers and officers; and there is Lieut. Colonel Woodruff (Thomas Beck), whose tough occupation job is to stabilize and denazify the Bavarian town...
...Woodruff takes his job-and democracy -seriously; he is dedicated to the proposition that no German shall ever fight again...
When he learns that the executives in Benckendorff's factory are Nazis, he refuses to let it reopen. Benckendorff now gets Bruce to use pull, but Woodruff overrides him. Finally, Benckendorff has his son-in-law start a riot in the town, hoping it will bring about Woodruff's removal. But Woodruff quashes it and manages to keep the upper hand...