Word: blaik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle Plans. At West Point, where meticulous Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik spends four hours at the planning tables for every hour on the practice field, organization reaches a precise, military perfection. Squads of specialists, drilling on separate fields and concentrating on detailed battle plans hatched by the commander in chief, can point for and defeat a stronger foe. After eleven months of intense prep aration (TIME, Oct. 17), Army did just that to Michigan. Says Blaik: "It's like plotting a military campaign. I get a tremendous kick out of it." Like Notre Dame's Frank Leahy...
...everybody got such a kick out of platoon football as Coaches Blaik, Leahy, Waldorf and Wilkinson. Complained some old-fashioned fans: the new game turned out more specialists, but was it really as much sport? Smaller schools, lagging in man and coaching-power, could hardly keep up the pace. As Pennsylvania's switch to the platoon system last week indicated, however, the new game looked tempting to the schools that could play it. It seemed to be around to stay...
There are some obvious factual flaws in the above dispatch. For one thing, Earl Blaik stated after the Harvard-Army game that Stephenson had appeared in but four plays against Michigan. For another, Professor Hobbs' Harvard correspondent apparently thinks Noonan and Roche are the same individual...
While Dartmouth avoided Haughton's teams Harvard had the misfortune to be on the Green schedule during Red Blaik's Hanover regime. Blaik's power teams ran over the Cantabs seven straight times before Harlow's eleven tripped the Indians...
Last step in Blaik's plan was to bring the Army team to a physical and emotional peak between the hours of 2 and 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 8. He did, although two defensive guards and Fullback Gil Stephenson, his star ballcarrier, were nursing injuries. Then the players were on their own, blocking and tackling fiercely, while Blaik watched tensely from the sideline, burning up nervous energy. Between the halves, he wandered calmly among his athletes, making a quiet suggestion here & there...