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...excellence, and whose Henry V could not have reminded Hollywood of anything it had ever seen before. Sportsmen of the year came in pairs: Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder re-won the Davis Cup for the U.S. in the year's last week, and Army's Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis made their last appearance in the game against Navy that was almost lost in two of the most exciting minutes of football history. (President Truman had left the stadium and missed those final two minutes; he missed so many other plays in 1946 that his Gallup poll...
Even before the first whistle blew this season, sportswriters knew which four men belonged in anybody's All-America backfield. Obviously, two of them were Army's durable Davis & Blanchard; the other two were Georgia's Charlie Trippi and Notre Dame's Quarterback Johnny Lujack. Last week, with every sports editor puffing into print with his own All-America team, the same four men turned up on almost everybody's list. Only Grantland Rice-who picks Collier's All-America team, the nearest thing to an official selection-was different. Granny Rice couldn...
...Southwest had its favored son, big (214 Ib.) Weldon Humble of Rice Institute, who played guard but was fast enough to play halfback. Notre Dame's line, the toughest in football, won two places-Guard John Mastrangelo and Tackle George Connor. Army contributed (besides Tucker, Blanchard & Davis) a 200-lb. end, Hank Foldberg. Georgia Tech, which 18 years ago had an All-America center, "Peter" Fund, had another in Paul Duke. The beefiest man on this season's All-America is Tennessee's 230-lb. tackle, Dick Huffman...
Army won three places on the first squad of the "team of teams" chosen by the two press agencies, with Hank Foldberg, end, and the touchdown twins, Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, selected. No member of the Crimson opposition made the team...
...Frank A. Mack '45, Lowell; lt, Robert A. Fisher '46, Eliot; lg, Harlan J. Smith '48, Dunster; c, William Sharpe, Jr. '43 Kirkland, and Gordon Grant, Jr. '47, Leverett; rg, George W. Blanchard '44, Kirkland; rt, Robert N. Thorn '46, Leverett; re, Alexander P. Coburn '48, Adams; qb, Gerald P. Glynn '46, Kirkland; rhb, Joseph M. Hurley, Jr. '44, Leverett; lhb, Roger Billings, Jr. '50, Dudley; fb, Charles MacDonald '46, Dunster...