Buster Keaton's first feature film. He chose to construct the film as a series of separate episodes so the film could be cut into individual shorts to be re-released on their own if the feature was a failure.
A widely-circulated error credits Oliver Hardy for this film. He was not in it. It was the similar-looking rotund comic Kewpie Morgan.
Towards the end of the movie, the names Havez, Mitchell and Bruckman appear on the football roster; they were names of Keaton's uncredited co-writers.