Varsity is a lost 1928 American sound part-talkie comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle, written by Howard Estabrook, George Marion Jr. and Wells Root, and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Mary Brian, Chester Conklin, Phillips Holmes, Robert Ellis and John Westwood. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Western Electric sound-on-film system. The film was released on October 27, 1928, by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

At Princeton University, beloved janitor "Pop" Conlan (Chester Conklin) secretly watches over a new freshman, Jimmy Duffy (Charles "Buddy" Rogers), who has just arrived from an orphanage. Unknown to Jimmy, "Pop" is actually his father. Because of his own troubled and dissipated past, "Pop" has concealed their relationship, changed Jimmy's name, and allowed the boy to grow up believing his father is dead.