Word: blaik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week football fans wondered whether Army Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik had not done even better. Like Leahy, Blaik was called back to his alma mater (from Dartmouth) this year to take over a team of veterans who required unteaching as well as teaching. Like Leahy, he was lucky enough to inherit from last year's freshman ranks one flashy newcomer: Halfback Ralph Hill, who lopes like a gazelle and can stop on a dime. With Hill and a little shuffling of old hands, Blaik, a strict disciplinarian and master strategist, came up with a winning combination...
Dick Harlow, the Crimson mentor, has never seen his teams beat a team coached by Earl "Red" Blaik, the present Army coach. For seven years before going to West Point, Blaik kept Harlow-coached elevens from taking a game from Dartmouth...
...Blaik, in his first year at Army, has done wonders with supposedly mediocre material to make his team one of the more pleasant surprises of the season...
...ball when it is snapped back to him. Army operates in the old Dartmouth style of a single wingback, and in formation right this places Mazur at the tailback spot. Here he is suited to carry on the running pass plays with which Bill Hutchinson of Dartmouth under Blaik's tutelage used to confound the Crimson secondary...
When Army goes into left formation, the wingback, Hill, does the running, and he also can perform this play. And for fullback Blaik has another triple threat in the person of Hatch, a tailback last year, who is none the less a very adequate plunger. The fourth member of the backfield is Jarrell, who in build and proficiency somewhat resembles George Helden at the blocking post...