Word: blaik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Colonel Earl Blaik is a patient, meticulous man; wartime West Point and its hard-studying, hard-drilling Cadets are right out of a football coach's dream. For six weeks Army Coach Blaik had carefully nursed his blessings, polishing his flashing T attack, proving his line, patiently pre paring for a payoff. Last week, suped-up to their mental and physical peak, the Cadets exploded against Notre Dame...
Among the 65,000 who packed Baltimore Stadium (capacity 64,015) was Coach Earl Blaik, whose Army team was galloping, 83-to-0, over Villanova at West Point. Blaik might have brought his first two Army teams along as scouting spectators; they were scarcely needed at West Point, where Army mercifully cut the last half of its game from 30 minutes to 16. The unbeaten Cadets meet Notre Dame in New York this week-and Navy three weeks hence, in what will certainly be the payoff game of the 1944 season...
...clear to Coach Earl Blaik of Army: "The middy team will be a superduper, lollypalooza." But he added: "That doesn't mean that we won't beat the Navy." Lieut. Colonel Blaik concentrated on speed and deception, continually talked "muzzle velocity" to his backs, who will run from the "T" more often than last year. Besides newcomer Dean Sensanbaugher, brilliant Ohio State back, West Point has Doug Kenna, its wonderful unknown; if he finally struts his stuff (he broke an arm in practice in '42, cracked a knee last year), Army's backfield will go places...
...football, a game he could not understand, Cas starred for three years at Steubenville High School. Scholarships were waiting for Columbia and Ohio State. But to please his father, who had heard and dreamed about West Point in grammar school in Stawiski, Poland, Cas wrote to Army Coach Earl Blaik about his ambition to go to West Point. He mentioned his football. Army's trainer went out to Steubenville to have a look...
...room in the Fort Steuben Hotel, Cas stripped off his scarred leather jacket and overalls. (He wore no underwear.) The trainer studied his body. The verdict: "A hell of a man with a beautiful pair of legs." Blaik interested Ohio Congressman George H. Bender, who appointed Myslinski to the Academy...