The Pigskin Palooka is a 1937 Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

short comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Gordon Douglas

Gordon Douglas (director)

Gordon Douglas was an American film director, who directed many different genres of films over the course of a five-decade career in motion pictures. He was a native of New York City.-Hal Roach and Our Gang:...

. It was the 159th Our Gang short (160th episode, 70th talking short, and 71st talking episode) that was released.

Plot

Having written of his football heroics in military school, Alfalfa returns home to a hero's welcome. But the fact is that Alfalfa never played a game in his life and borrowed Rex's, a classmate and football player's uniform to take a picture, angering him as well. No sooner has he stepped off the train than his old pal Spanky, manager of the gang's football team, informs Alfalfa that he's been slated to be star player in an upcoming gridiron battle—which is to be staged within the next few hours. Alfalfa winds up winning the game in a total fluke, which Buckwheat and Porky helped cause.

Cast

• Carl Switzer
  Carl Switzer
  Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.-Early life and family:Switzer was born in Paris,...
  
   - Alfalfa
• Darla Hood
  Darla Hood
  Darla Jean Hood was an American child actress, best known as the leading lady in the Our Gang series from 1935 to 1941. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner...
  
   - Darla
• George McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
   - Spanky
• Eugene Lee - Porky
• Billie Thomas - Buckwheat
• Dickie Jones - Spike
• Sidney Kibrick
  Sidney Kibrick
  Sidney Kibrick is an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1935 to 1939. From 1937 to 1939, he portrayed "The Woim", the sidekick of the neighborhood bully "Butch", played by Tommy Bond.He is the brother of the late Leonard Kibrick,...
  
   - Spike's sidekick
• Delmar Watson
  Delmar Watson
  David Delmar Watson was an American child actor and news photographer.-Biography:He was the son of actor, stuntman, and pioneer special effects artist Coy Watson Sr. They lived by Mack Sennett's studios in the old Edendale area of Los Angeles, California and Delmar attended Belmont High...
  
   - Captain of the military academy's football team

• Gary Jasgur
  Gary Jasgur
  Gary Jasgur was an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short film series from 1937 to 1939.-Career:Dark-haired Jasgur was cast as "Junior", the infant brother of either Spanky or Darla...
  
   - Junior (timekeeper)
• Rex Downing - Cadet (photographer)
• Cullen Johnson - Scorekeeper
• Darwood Kaye - Member of Spanky's team
• John Collum
  John Collum
  John K. Collum was an American child actor of the 1930s.-Career:Born in Illinois, Collum was the son of Hal Roach's casting director, Joseph Collum, and appeared in twenty-six of Roach's Our Gang comedies from 1932 to 1938...
  
   - Member of Spanky's team
• Charles Flickinger - Member of Spanky's team
• Larry Harris - Member of Spanky's team
• Tommy McFarland - Member of Spanky's team
• Donald Proffitt - Member of Spanky's team
• Harold Switzer
  Harold Switzer
  Harold Frederick Switzer was an American child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as an extra...
  
   - Member of Spanky's team
• Fred Walburn - Member of Spike's team / Game spectator
• Hugh Chapman - Member of Spike's team
• Barry Downing - Game spectator
• Robert Winkler - Game spectator
• Payne B. Johnson - Game Spectator
• Priscilla Lyon - Bit role
• Vincent Graeff - Trumpet player
• Joe Strauch Jr. - Kid in the marching band
• Pete The Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  - Petie