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Reason is also on Army's side. Its ably coached 204-lb. line and 183-lb. backfield know how to throw their weight around legally and still make it hurt plenty. Above all, Army has the two best backs to come down the pike in years. One is a human blockbuster named Felix ("Doc") Blanchard. The other is a jet-propelled gent named Glenn ("Junior") Davis. They make Army's cream-smooth T attack bubble and boil like no other T in the land...
...Jayvee gridmen crushed the Worcester aggregation 25 to 0, on Soldiers Field. Newell and Carlton both scored twice for the victors, the entire backfield performing smoothly behind excellent line protection...
...backfield is in a more fluid state right now, with Jack MacDonald and Tom Tennant alternating in the blocking back slot, Bill Jenkins, Herb Fritts, and Pete Harwood sharing the wingback duties, Leo Flynn, ken O'Donnell, Bill Jackson, and Charley Roche handling the tallback job, and Bob Cowen and Hal Miller filling in at fullback...
Haves & Have-Nots. The most optimistic of coaches was George Hunger of Pennsylvania, lone Ivy Leaguer rash enough to schedule both Army and Navy. He had a letterman line anchored on 250-lb. Tackle George Savitsky and a G.I. backfield starring ex-Air Corpsman Bob Evans, ex-Sergeant Don Schneider and ex-Army Fullback Farquahr Jones. Of Army and Navy, Coach Munger boasted: "We'll beat one of them. Wanna...
Chronic moaner Earl ("Red") Blaik, Army's coach, moaned: "We're woefully short on backfield material"-which was one way of saying that his line was tremendous. And it was true that he had only a dozen backs. But that might suffice, since two of the twelve, Felix ("Doc") Blanchard and Glenn Davis, form football's deadliest one-two punch of the century...