Word: blanchardisms
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Solid Citizens. Without Blanchard and Davis, West Point would have just another good wartime football team. Even with them, the old football fact remains that most games are won or lost by the solid citizens who perform up front...
...squad's loquacious trainer, Roland ("Beaver") Bevan, is good at both. He is as well stocked with football lore as Doc Blanchard's father was, and he has enough pain-curing equipment to stock a hospital for hypochondriacs (which Cadets are not). Some of Beaver's newer gadgets: an infra-red lamp for bruises and sprains, an ultraviolet lamp for infections, a paraffin oil bath to provide extra heat for sprains, a short-wave diathermy machine for deep-penetration heat, frigidaire ice packs for inflammations...
...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...
...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...
...South Bend, where the week's defense problem was to try and find a way of stopping Blanchard and Davis, a Notre Dame scout dispatched a one-word suggestion: ropes...