Harold Lloyd originally began production with the football scenes, filming at the Rose Bowl. However, he couldn't achieve the right tone for these final scenes, and he decided to start over again and shoot the film in sequence.
Harold Lloyd was 31 when he shot this movie. He had always wanted to make a football movie but never had the opportunity. When this film was in development, he thought it would be a bad idea to have him in it, because he was too old.
Debut of Grady Sutton.
Football players from USC played members of the opposing and home football teams
In 2002, Harold Lloyd Entertainment released a 76-minute version with music composed, arranged and conducted by Robert Israel and played by The Robert Israel Orchestra and The Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Some of the football scenes were reused by Preston Sturges in his 1947 film The Sin of Harold Diddlebock.
The football scenes were shot at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California between the first and second quarters of the East-West game of 1924-25. The stadium had just completed construction the year before.
The train station where Harold Lloyd got off for college was in Culver City, near Los Angeles.
This movie was shot in sequence, which was rare for a Harold Lloyd movie. Lloyd usually thought up comic setpieces and based his stories around them. In this instance he felt it was a more character-driven story and he would have to get into the character by shooting it in order.