In Elmer the Great and two more baseball-themed hits, fan and former semi-pro player Joe E. Brown wound up and pitched winning comedy. In Eleven Men and a Girl, he swaps horsehide for pigskin and -- surrounded by the 1929 All-American football team, who make the lithe Brown look like a greyhound at a Rottweiler convention -- scores more big laughs. Directed with plenty of gridiron action by William A. Wellman (Wings), the story concerns
