Word: blaik
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Besides being football captain and holder of five pass-catching records at the academy, Carpenter was battalion commander and winner of a special award for "inspirational personal courage and leadership in athletics." "Bill," said former Army Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, "had the mentality for doing the unusual. His kind of leadership was the quiet type-action rather than words. He'd do something himself on the football field and that would inspire the others...
Glowing Determination. Carpenter got reams of publicity for the position he played-the Blaik-invented "lonely end," who stationed himself near the sidelines, never entered the huddle, and got his signals for the plays through a series of hand-and-foot movements from one of the other players. He scored six touchdowns in his years at the Point, encouraged his teammates to extra efforts by playing under extreme handicaps. Against Oklahoma in 1959, Carpenter played with a painful shoulder separation: his left arm was taped to his side, yet he caught six passes-one-handed...
Call Him Hardnose. Parseghian enrolled at the University of Akron, spent two wartime years in the Navy: then back to football he went, this time at Miami of Ohio, a small school with an uncanny knack for producing big-time coaches?Army's Earl Blaik and Paul Dietzel, Ohio State's Woody Hayes, the pros' Paul Brown, Weeb Ewbank and Sid Gillman. In 1947, a solid 190-lb. halfback, Ara led the Redskins to an undefeated season, won All-America mention and a pro tryout with the Cleveland Browns...
Just before the jury acted, Presidential Peacemakers Kenneth Roy all, former Army Secretary, and Earl Blaik, former West Point football coach, returned from Birmingham to Washington to talk with Kennedy. Both remained tight-lipped about their findings and recommendations, pending a final report to the President this week, but they offered vague reassurances that Birmingham tensions are easing. In Birmingham itself, that hardly seemed the case. The city council last week rejected a demand by Martin Luther King that Birmingham hire 25 Negro cops within two weeks. King had promised in advance that such a rejection would bring "bigger...
...Birmingham onetime West Point Football Coach Earl Blaik and former Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall flew into the city at President Kennedy's behest to find ways of reconciling the Negro and white communities. White city officials deliberately failed to invite Negro leaders to the airport to welcome Blaik and Royall. Mayor Albert Boutwell, an ailing (diabetes) and so far totally unimpressive "moderate," set the tone by declaring that the Blaik-Royall mission would be of course purely advisory, added Birmingham's familiar refrain that past cooperation between the races had been "hampered largely by professional outside...