Pete Smith's Football Thrills in order

Series of Pete Smith's Specialties (one-reel comedy shorts) summarizing some of the year's best plays in college football. 10 films, 1h 23m in all, in release order.

Football Thrills of 1937
Football Thrills of 1937
1938 · 10 min
A review of the 1937 football season.
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Football Thrills of 1938
Football Thrills of 1938
1939 · 10 min
The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.
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Football Thrills of 1940
Football Thrills of 1940
1941 · 9 min
Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.
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Football Thrills of 1941
Football Thrills of 1941
1942 · 9 min
A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.
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Football Thrills of 1942
Football Thrills of 1942
1943 · 10 min
A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.
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Football Thrills of 1943
Football Thrills of 1943
1944 · 8 min
A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.
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Football Thrills of 1944
Football Thrills of 1944
1945 · 8 min
Pete Smith would make a "Football Thrills of...." each year as part of his Pete Smith Specials. 1944 was in the midst of WW II and most of the college football teams across the nation had been decimated because most of their athletes were in some branch of the Armed Services, which is why the teams from Army (West Point) and Navy (U.S.Naval Academy) were the best in the country during the war years...and not since. And some were in Special Services and were playing for various armed services stations and camps across the country, such as Fort Sill, Great Lakes Naval Training (coached by Notre Dame's Frank Leahy), Fort Ord and others and were beating up on the freshman-and-4F-dominated college teams of the era with week-after-week regularity. Service teams and Army and Navy disappeared as football powers after the war but they were the kingpins in 1944.
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Football Thrills No. 9
Football Thrills No. 9
1946 · 9 min
A Pete Smith Specialty. Classic high spots from last year's football landmarks.
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Football Thrills No. 10
Football Thrills No. 10
1947 · 10 min
A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.
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Football Thrills of 1939
Football Thrills of 1939
TBA · 9 min · Not out yet
A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics. Reliving past games of Notrè Dame-Navy, Southern California-Illinois, Fordham-Pitt and Princeton-Vanderbilt.
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Frequently asked questions

What order should I watch Pete Smith's Football Thrills in?

1. Football Thrills of 1937 (1938), 2. Football Thrills of 1938 (1939), 3. Football Thrills of 1940 (1941), 4. Football Thrills of 1941 (1942), 5. Football Thrills of 1942 (1943), 6. Football Thrills of 1943 (1944), 7. Football Thrills of 1944 (1945), 8. Football Thrills No. 9 (1946), 9. Football Thrills No. 10 (1947), 10. Football Thrills of 1939.

How long does it take to watch all of Pete Smith's Football Thrills?

About 1h 23m across 9 released films.

Do any Pete Smith's Football Thrills films have post-credit scenes?

None are listed on TMDB.