They needed a second chance to finish first.
7.044
114 min
Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.
Name | Character | Team | |
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Gene Hackman | Coach Norman Dale | Unowned |
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Barbara Hershey | Myra Fleener | Unowned |
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Dennis Hopper | Shooter | Unowned |
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Sheb Wooley | Cletus | Unowned |
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Fern Persons | Opal Fleener | Unowned |
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Chelcie Ross | George | Unowned |
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Robert Swan | Rollin | Unowned |
Michael O'Guinne | Rooster | Unowned | |
Wil Dewitt | Reverend Doty | Unowned | |
John Robert Thompson | Sheriff Finley | Unowned | |
Michael Sassone | Preacher Purl | Unowned | |
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Gloria Dorson | Millie | Unowned |
Mike Dalzell | Mayor Carl | Unowned | |
Skip Welker | Junior | Unowned | |
Eric Gilliom | J. June | Unowned | |
Robert Boyle | Referee (Oolitic) | Unowned | |
Jerry D. Petro | Referee - Oolitic Game | Unowned | |
Sam Smiley | Referee - Cedar Knob Game | Unowned | |
Tom McConnell | Coach - Cedar Knob | Unowned | |
Dennis Farkas | Gorilla Player - Cedar Knob | Unowned | |
Tim Fogarty | Referee - Verdi Game | Unowned | |
Spyridon Stratigos | Referee - Loogootee Game | Unowned | |
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Ken Strunk | Referee - Dugger Game | Unowned |
Jerry D. Larrison | Referee - Terhune Game | Unowned | |
Thomas W. Marshall | Referee - Terhune Game | Unowned | |
Gary Long | Coach - Jasper | Unowned | |
C.W. Mundy | Coach - Jasper | Unowned | |
Jeff Moster | Player - Jasper | Unowned | |
Ralph H. Shively | Doc Buggins | Unowned | |
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Rich Komenich | Reporter | Unowned |
Scott Miley | Reporter | Unowned | |
Robert Sutton | Reporter | Unowned | |
Ray Crowe | Coach - State | Unowned | |
Ray Craft | Official - Finals | Unowned | |
Tom Carnegie | Finals P.A. Announcer | Unowned | |
Hilliard Gates | Radio Announcer - Finals | Unowned | |
Laura Robling | Hickory Cheerleader | Unowned | |
Nancy Harris | Hickory Cheerleader | Unowned | |
Libbey Schenck | Hickory Cheerleader | Unowned | |
Brad Boyle | Whit Butcher | Unowned | |
Steve Hollar | Rade | Unowned | |
Brad Long | Buddy | Unowned | |
David Neidorf | Everett | Unowned | |
Maris Valainis | Jimmy Chitwood | Unowned | |
Kent Poole | Merle | Unowned | |
Wade Schenck | Ollie | Unowned | |
Scott Summers | Strap Purl | Unowned | |
The Travel-Aires | Star Spangled Banner Quartet | Unowned |