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...fuse: "There never has been and there never will be a time when West Point will look with complacency on a 45-0 beating by Cornell and a 48-0 trouncing by Pennsylvania, especially in one football season." He spent a month persuading ex-Army Backfield Coach Red Blaik, whose single-wing formation was working wonders at Dartmouth, to return to the Point...
Spring training that year was a lot tougher than most September practice grinds. Boss Blaik hammered & hammered on fundamentals (he still does, devoting half of every practice session to them). That fall, Army won its first major game (from Columbia) in three years. In 1943, Blaik scuttled his tried & true single-wing power stuff, adopted the quick-opening, tricky T. From power blocking (two-on-one) to man-to-man and downfield brush blocking was an awful reconversion headache. Even in its simplest form, the delicate T timing proved too much to master in a single season. But by last...
Facts & Futures. Earl Blaik has a fidgety stomach. Florid press notices about his team-and they are a steady diet again this year-give it the growls. No advocate of die-for-the-old-school pep talks, Blaik has only one antidote for incipient overconfidence: he preaches cold facts, chalks out in black & white how an inferior team can whip a mightier one that makes a few mistakes...
...prime fact about Blaik's job is that his players must be kept in step for future soldiering. West Point's former footballers have set a good example: of 513 wearers of the "A," no less than 88 have risen to the rank of brigadier general or higher.* Davis and Blanchard have their military sights set. The Speedster, who got airsick on a recent trip home, is air-force-minded. The Blockbuster thinks he will specialize, appropriately, in artillery...
This week the military future seemed far away; Notre Dame and its flashy Quarterback Frank Dancewicz were the immediate objectives to be taken (with Pennsylvania and Navy just over the horizon). Colonel Blaik had gone to Cleveland to see Notre Dame play Navy, and he had some facts to report. As the super-dupers perfected their defense against Notre Dame's plays, Junior Davis was fast approaching his best worrying mood, and Doc Blanchard's lips already had a Saturday afternoon tautness...