After David Greene is awarded a football scholarship to attend a famous prep school in the 1950s, he begins to feel pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers. He is afraid that they may be anti-Semitic against him because of his religion. When it is revealed that he comes from a Jewish family, his worst fears are fulfilled as his pals turn on him with physical threats and public scorn. He rapidly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his prowess on the football field.
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After David Greene is awarded a football scholarship to attend a famous prep school in the 1950s, he begins to feel pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers. He is afraid that they may be anti-Semitic against him because of his religion. When it is revealed that he comes from a Jewish family, his worst fears are fulfilled as his pals turn on him with physical threats and public scorn. He rapidly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his prowess on the football field.
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