The movie combined football excitement with the influence of communism on college athletics.

Other aspiring Warners' actresses were Olivia de Havilland, June Grabiner, Nan Grey, and Dorothy Dare.

The story concerned a girl who inherits a newspaper, adapted from an unpublished play by Manny Seff and Milton Lazarus.

Martel's later screen roles came in the 1930s in western films, such as Forlorn River (1937), Wild Horse Rodeo (1937) and Santa Fe Stampede (1938).

She collected odd pieces of jewelry and had amassed a small trunkload of items by 1937.