The 1918 film included future Boston Redskins coach William "Lone Star" Dietz and the only Washington State University football team to win a Rose Bowl.

Harvard University student Tom Brown is a handsome, athletic, and carefree young man who has a reputation as a Don Juan among the ladies.

Although he is popular on campus, he finds himself at odds with Bob McAndrew, a studious, reserved boy who becomes his chief rival for the affections of beautiful Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.

Tom rooms with Jim Doolittle, an awkward weakling but goodhearted backwoods youth who idolizes him.

The brash and cocky Brown easily wins over his dormitory mates, but refuses to let them ostracize Jim.