Whip Halloran is the ""one-man backfield"" who at the end of his freshman year at A & T, his state's engineering college, begins to spark up a dead team and get his sliding school off the skids. Undaunted, our hero overcomes the dilemmas presented by the abolition of the two platoon system, personality clashes and money difficulties, to give A & T a flying start on the future. All fumbles, gracefully recorded.