Word: blanchards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side. Its ably coached 204-lb. line and 183-lb. backfield know how to throw their weight around legally and still make it hurt plenty. Above all, Army has the two best backs to come down the pike in years. One is a human blockbuster named Felix ("Doc") Blanchard. The other is a jet-propelled gent named Glenn ("Junior") Davis. They make Army's cream-smooth T attack bubble and boil like no other T in the land...
Combined Fire Power. Those who insist on comparisons give 205-lb. Fullback Blanchard a sharp edge over Stanford's great Norman Standlee. Doc explodes with more muzzle velocity, hits the line with more downright destructiveness. With one more year of Army football to play, Blanchard may seriously challenge Minnesota's mighty Bronko Nagurski as the all-time exponent of straight-ahead brute force...
Once in the clear, Blanchard's beef-trust legs dance on eggshells. He has a 14-game average of 6.6 yards for every time he has carried the ball. He does Army's kicking, blocks and tackles with a killer-diller effectiveness that approaches perfection. Every pro team in the U.S. would jump to make room for Blanchard...
Davis and Blanchard's individual fire power combined in one backfield adds NT to Blaik's T. With a smart quarterback mixing his one-two punches, Mister Inside and Mister Outside are guaranteed to drive a rival defense nuts. Even conservative Red Blaik says: "I doubt if any team ever had two such players in the backfield at the same time...
...teams voted most likely to succeed in 1945. Army, the experts' other pre-season choice, did. Last week, the Cadets' well-seasoned T attack steamrollered Duke 4840-13 for victory No. 5. It was such easy going that All-America Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard and All-America Halfback Glenn ("Junior") Davis-Mister Inside and Mister Outside -had what amounted to a day off: they scored only three touchdowns, let the second-stringers have a whirl...