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...America guard at the University of Tennessee, a professional with the Brooklyn Dodgers football club and a pro wrestler before turning to coaching. He assisted at Wake Forest and North Carolina State, went to the U.S. Military Academy in 1943, built for his boss. Earl ("Red"') Blaik, the impenetrable Army line of the Blanchard-Davis era. Once asked for a statement of his philosophy, Ulcer Victim Hickman said: "When I work, I work hard; when I relax, I rest loose; and when I begin to worry, I fall fast asleep...
...Little Time. Twice the Cadets got their hands on the ball, and twice were stopped cold. Quarterback Don Holleder dropped back to fire a left-handed pass and Welsh added insult to injury by intercepting. In the shivering stands, fans warmed up by arguing that Coach Earl Blaik should never have ruined Holleder, an All-America end, by trying to teach him how to run a T-formation offense. In the second quarter. Blaik called Holleder to the bench to give him a last-minute cram course in football strategy...
armed with Colonel Blaik's reminder that the infantry, after all, are the men who win the battles. Sticking to the ground, he drove the Cadets steadily toward a touchdown. There were only seconds left toward the end of the half. Army was on the Navy n-yd. line when Coach Blaik decided his instruction had been too emphatic ; Holleder seemed to have forgotten that there was such a thing as a pass...
...grey for West Point at the start of the second half. Fullback Pat Uebel, with four touchdowns to his credit from past Army-Navy games, took the Navy kickoff, ran 43 yds. and was knocked loose from the ball. But something had happened to Army. In the locker room. Blaik and his assistants had shuffled defensive assignments. The big Cadet line sliced in to stop the Middies and take the ball back. Holleder tried a third-down pass and missed, but it was his last mistake...
...minutes in the third period did the Lions roar at all, and then they got only one touchdown. In the last quarter, Army all but pushed them off the field, scored twice more to finish the game in front, 35 to 6. His sad song over, Coach Blaik was already whistling up a new tune for this week's march into Michigan...