How to Play Football

How to Play Football is a 1944 Goofy cartoon directed by Jack Kinney.
==Plot==
The Goofies of Taxidermy Tech take on the Goofies of Anthropology A and M. While they are playing, the narrator tells the viewers how the game of football is played as well as give play-by-play commentary.
==Notes==
*It was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Animated Short Subject category, but lost to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Tom and Jerry short film "Mouse Trouble".
*The original title cards were done entirely on animated placards in a football stadium.
*When the narrator explains the rules of the game, he is drowned out by the roaring crowd for comedic purposes, but if you listen closely, he actually says, "Now the object of the game is, (drowned out by crowd) to pass the ball over the goal line of the opposing team by hook or crook. There are eleven men on either team, two ends... (crowd stops) and that's how the game is played!"
==Releases==
===Television===
*Disneyland, episode #2.24: "The Goofy Sports Story"
*Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, episode #10.23: "In Shape with Von Drake"
*The Mouse Factory, episode #1.17: "Sports"
*The New Mickey Mouse Club, April 25, 1977
*Good Morning, Mickey, episode #68
*Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #73
*Donald's Quack Attack, episode #31
*The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.3: "Sports Goofy"
*Have a Laugh!, episode #37
*Treasures from the Disney Vault, December 18, 2018
===Home video===
VHS
*Goofy Over Sports
*View-Master Interactive Vision: Disney's Cartoon Arcade
Laserdisc
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: More Sport Goofy
DVD
*Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy
*Walt Disney's Classic Cartoon Favorites: Extreme Sports Fun
===Streaming===
*Disney+, April 3, 2020
==Have a Laugh! changes==
The following scenes were deleted from the short release due to time constraints:
*The opening shot of the college.
*The teams coming out onto the field.
*The try for the extra point for Taxidermy Tech, raising the score from 6 to 7.
*The coach saving Swivel-Hips Smith.
*The huddle deciding which number to call.
*Many of the gags during the first half of the game are cut, going from a Taxidermy quarterback literally barking signals to a Taxidermy player going for a bullet pass.
*The Taxidermy Tech cheerleaders' scene.
*The entire halftime section with the players in the locker room, as the coach addresses the team before telling them to "get out there and fight".
*Swivel-Hips Smith being brought for the second half.
*The coach swallowing his cigar as Smith is hit hard.
*The coach feverishly reviving Smith is shortened.
*The gag involving Taxidermy Tech up against a wall of the opposing team.
*One player getting kicked in the face by another.
*Smith stumbling around the field is shortened, and the coach with many cigars in his mouth during the scene is cut.
*The sportscaster gnawing on his microphone as he watches.
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==Trivia==
*The new sound effect was added while both teams trying to catch the ball, and added to Cartoon Trax Volume 1. This new sound named Big Bar Fight (Alternatively known as; Hollywoodedge, Big Bar Fight Wglass CRT028701 and Description Name was Big Bar Fight with Glass Shatters, Wood Breaks, and Some Yells)
Category:Animated shorts
Category:Goofy shorts
Category:1944 shorts
Category:Films featuring Sports
Category:Academy Award nominated films