Word: blanchardisms
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...without Problems. On his football record, Blanchard could have picked his college and named his terms. Although he had a sentimental feeling about Tulane, he finally decided on North Carolina-because Coach Jim Tatum was his mother's first cousin. When he became Pfc. Blanchard in the Army, little persuasion was needed to make him accept an appointment to West Point...
...academic grind, which no West Pointer can laugh off, proved only a passing problem to Blockbuster Blanchard. Differential calculus could hardly be mastered in five easy lessons, but neither could shot-putting, for that matter. In fact, it took Doc almost a whole season to get good enough to win the Indoor Intercollegiate 16-lb. shot-put title. Starting from scratch, he worked up to a solid 50 feet in just one winter...
...football field, so-year-old Doc Blanchard is the relaxed "pro" (coaches and teammates call him that) who never gets tough until the going gets tough. Then his lips smack shut, his eyes draw a bead and the opposition had better have its insurance paid...
...Point's 295-lb. line coach, Herman ("Kin Folk") Hickman. According to his version, it was Army's ball, third down and two to go in last year's Navy game. After the Cadets came out of their huddle, one lineman said to his Navy opponent: "Blanchard is going to carry [the ball], I don't know what you're going to do, but I'm going...
...throttling his 175 pounds down to the speed of his interference. Totally unlike most high-pressure halfbacks, he takes high delight in mowing down a rival tackier while running interference for somebody else (he cut down two Duke tacklers with one swoop to make way for a 36-yd. Blanchard touchdown...