Frank (Zeppo Marx) is Wagstaf’s playboy college student son, who is still in Huxley after 12 years and is dating the sexy college widow Connie Bailey (Thelma Todd). Chico is an ice man/bootlegger, and Harpo a mute dogcatcher. Wagstaf is told that what’s wrong with the college is that it has a losing football team: it has “neglected football for education.” To remedy this, his son tells him that two great players hang out at the speakeasy and could be bought off to play for the team. But gambler Jennings (David Landau), who is also dating Connie, gets to the two ringers first and signs them up to play for rival Darwin. Jennings has bet heavy on Darwin to win the Big Game and has even employed Connie to steal Huxley’s football signals from Groucho. At the speakeasy Groucho mistakenly signs up misfits Baravelli (Chico Marx) and Pinky (Harpo Marx). When he finds out his error, he sends the misfits to kidnap the ringers but instead they are kidnapped and locked in a room. They are about to miss the game, but saw through the floor and arrive in the second half by taking a street-sweepers horse-drawn cart and using it to take them to the game Ben-Hur style in a horse-driven chariot. In a nutty anarchic slapstick football game played without any rules, Huxley overcomes its rival with Groucho coming out of the stands to give the opposing team a pep talk and then tackles them before they can score, while Chico and Harpo score touchdowns by dropping banana peels in front of their opponents.