Filmed before Knute Rockne died in an airplane crash in Kansas in March, 1931, Sportscaster Christy Walsh visits the famed coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team in South Bend, Indiana and Coach Rockne explains and demonstrates, using Notre Dame football players, the various backfield shifts used by the team. Footage showing other shift-formations used by Coach Bennie Bierman, at Tulane University, before he went to the University of Minnesota, are also shown along with those used by such teams as the Southern Cal Trojans, coached by Howard Jones, and other college football teams across America,