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...season last week, and time for the stars of 1946 to be showing their stripes. Some standouts: ¶ Army's Doc Blanchard, whose bad knee had started rumors that he was all through, proved it wasn't so by galloping to four touchdowns against unbeaten Columbia. Partner Glenn Davis played as healthy a game as ever. ¶ Illinois' Buddy ("Black Magic") Young, pre-season favorite who hadn't measured up to his advance billing, finally came to life. Young got off a 34-yard touchdown run which helped Illinois beat Wisconsin 27-to-21. ¶ Georgia...
Kirkland: le, Snow, Rich; lt, Burke; lg, Blanchard, Cardoze; c. Sharpe, Knight; rg, Gill, Singer; rt, Pettingell; re, McCafferey, Minton; backs, Bell, Glynn, Weston, Kameese, Gilpatrick, Muldoon
...lineups: Kirkland: re, Minton; rt, McCaffrey; rg, Marx, Gill; c, Sharpe; lg, Blanchard; lt, Burke; le, Snow; backs, Bell, Glynn, Weston, Kameese...
Army got past Michigan (20-13) but-unless they found some first-class reserve troops quickly-it looked like the beginning of the end. The soldier who saved the day was brilliant Glenn Davis (junior partner in Davis, Blanchard & Co.), who squirmed through the entire Michigan team for 58 yds. and a touchdown. He tossed seven passes, completed seven; got bruised and tired from playing almost the whole 60 minutes. So did the rest of Army's first stringers. Some of the season's other unbeatens...
...Class of 1943: Malcolm Magoun Ferguson, Richmond Nelson Hutchins, Louis Gerald-Varet Hyde, Carl Hudson Imlay, Charles William Mulcahy Jr., Ralph Eugene Snyder, Oliver Rowland Blanchard Stalter...