| Gene Hackman | Coach Norman Dale |
| Barbara Hershey | Myra Fleener |
| Dennis Hopper | Shooter |
| Sheb Wooley | Cletus |
| Fern Persons | Opal Fleener |
| Brad Boyle | Whit |
| Steve Hollar | Rade |
| Brad Long | Buddy |
| David Neidorf | Everett |
| Kent Poole | Merle |
| Wade Schenck | Ollie |
| Scott Summers | Strap |
| Maris Valainis | Jimmy |
A college basketball coach leaves the Navy in 1951 and becomes coach of an underdog Indiana high-school team.
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