Word: blaik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Marshall, laundryman-owner of the Washington Redskins, got in on the play. Said Marshall: "It's hard to understand why Blaik would make such comments when he coaches one of the few thoroughly professional teams in existence. Mr. Blaik's references about football would carry greater weight if Army hadn't run out on its traditional rival, Notre Dame...
West Point's Coach Earl Blaik, boss of the best college football team in the U.S., has long had views of his own about the game as played by the professional football teams. Last week he tucked his views under his arm and rammed the pros' line head...
...interview published in Collier's, Blaik blasted the "showmanship" and the "big fat men" in professional football. Said he: "If a pro team were put into a league with good college teams it would have ... to play the way the colleges do, or it wouldn't stand a chance."* Blaik churned on: "I don't learn anything from pro football. I know that if I could not develop a team which would play harder, faster and with greater coordination than the pros, my career as a college coach would be limited...
Tacklers reached out on all sides before "Red" Blaik had passed the line of scrimmage. Said Pro Coach Earle ("Greasy") Neale of the champion Philadelphia Eagles: "Blaik's a fine one to talk about pro football. Almost everything he uses is copied from us. Why, I helped install the T at West Point [as an imported adviser...
Coach McLaughry had been at Dartmouth for seven and a half years and was extremely popular during that time. He came to Hanover from Brown to succeed Earl Blaik, who moved over to West Point as coach...