The Winning Stroke

Categories: Action, Drama, Romance
In a mock fraternity initiation, a group of Yale students haze Paul Browning for tattling. When he learns that the leader of the group, oarsman Buck Simmons, is also winning the favor of Aida Courtlandt, the dean's niece, the jealous Browning and gambler Burton Hampdon, to whom Browning owes money, attempt to disgrace Buck so he will not be allowed to participate in the upcoming Yale-Harvard race. After they fail to lure Buck to bed with a girl, Browning takes Aida to a roadhouse so that Buck will have to break training rules to go there. When the coach, suspicious about the roadhouse incident, finds a letter planted on Buck about a deal for him to throw the race, he suspends Buck, but with Aida's influence, the dean straightens matters out. After Yale wins a close race, Browning shoots at Buck, who then trounces him. Proclaimed captain of the next year's team, Buck becomes engaged to Aida.
Status: Released IMDb
Release date: 1919-09-07
Run time: 50 minute / 0:50
Director: Edward Dillon
Production Company : Fox Film Corporation
Production Country: United States of America

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George Walsh
as Buck Simmons
Jane McAlpine
as Aida Courtlandt
John Leslie
as Paul Browning
William T. Hayes
as Burton Hampdon
Louis Este
as 'Crickett' Perry
John Woodford
as The Dean
Sidney Marion
as 'Chub' Winters
Byron Douglas
as The Head Coach
Julien Beaubien
Directing
Edward Dillon Director

Writing
Edward Sedgwick Writer
Raymond L. Schrock Writer
Hamilton Thompson Writer

Crew
H. Alderson Leach Cinematography

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