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- The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.
- Ronald's high-school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. Fearing to lose her to rival Jeff, he decides to go to college and pay more attentions to sports.
- Biff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. Biff considers Babs his girl, and she does like him more than Eddie, but Eddie is persistent. Everywhere they go, Eddie and Biff are competing for Babs. When Eddie backs off for the sake of the friendship, Babs decides that she wants him, and this causes the friendship to end. Their rivalry even threatens the team's play in the big Stanford football game.
- This Sports Champions short shows track and field athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
- A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
- Tommy Scott goes to a Connecticut college to become a doctor, but is soon discovered to be a prodigious football talent. He becomes a national star and falls in love, but fame and ill-advised financial deals threaten to ruin his future.
- Coach Gore, a ruthless and cynical big-time football coach, neglects his wife in his unrelenting drive to make Calvert College a football power.
- Married coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl.
- When a strategically important new aerial guidance system is stolen, Charlie traces it to the Berlin Olympics, where he has to battle spies and enemy agents to retrieve it.
- Injured Carlton College quarterback Ken Thomas promises his girlfriend that he will not play again; when she relents, he is kidnapped by crooks hoping to make money from The Big Game.
- Three young men, with a common fondness for football, become roommates the at United States Naval Academy where they experience its rules and traditions.
- The Falcon investigates the murder of an actor on a Hollywood backlot.
- With the 1948 Olympics Games about to begin, RKO-Pathe (the shorts department at RKO)tossed this one out as part of their "This Is America" series (RKO production number 83-110.) It presents sports as the American Way of Life and goes back to sport's Golden Age of the 1920s to look at who was doing what back then. Man O' War was winning a lot of horse races, Johnny Weissmuller a lot of swimming races, and 'The Galloping Ghost,", Harold 'Red' Grange, was crossing the goal-line with a football several lengths ahead of the always-slow players from Michigan and Ohio State.
- Football coach George Cooper has as many problems managing his football team as he has at home dealing with his daughters, Ellen and Connie.
- Ralph Staub takes in the annual Hollywood rodeo held in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, while Gene Autry describes the color and introduces some of the attendees, such as John Wayne and Jane Russell.
- The greatest player in Ridgefield College history uses his influence and reputation to get his only son, a sickly, uncoordinated nerd, on the college football team with comic results.
- Two marketing professionals hire a lookalike of classic Western actor Smoky Callaway to impersonate the actor and make new films, but things go awry when the real Callaway, thought long missing, returns.
- The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
- This short film chronicles the quest to run a mile in under four minutes starting in the 1920s through the mid-1950s when the world record was first set and when it was first achieved on U.S. soil.
- Bob Hope narrates the life story of early 20th century entertainer, Will Rogers.