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Hollywood wanted them for a movie short. Pro football, recognizing them as the greatest two-star combination in college football history, put in high bids. The offers piled up. Last week, West Point's touchdown twins, Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard (along with End Barney Poole), asked the War Department for fall furloughs to take advantage of their $100,000-a-season offers...
...wish of Blanchard & Davis to earn side money without giving up their Army careers was just too much for several sport columnists. Hearstling Bill Corum threatened to boycott them if they put on a pro uniform. In Washington, Illinois' Representative Leslie C. Arends fumed: "I thought we sent these boys to West Point* to be future officers and not pro football players...
...little red tape on the way, the War Department turned it down. Said War Secretary Patterson: ". . . any other decision would be inimical to the best interests of the service . . . officers are now being sent on foreign service where there is a shortage of second lieutenants." Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard would have to go on just being soldiers, like everyone else at West Point...
Results of tomorrow's meet, starting at 2 o'clock, will be studied by Ivy League track mentors who remember Harvard's 1942 Heptagonal sweep. The Cadets, of course, have Davis and Blanchard. They also have a 239-pounder named Schultz in the weight-throw, several strong distance runners and hurdlers, and a 3:26.6 mile relay team...
...mile run--Won by Blanchard (T); F. Gurley (H); third J. Cogan (H). Time...