Word: blanchards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood wanted them for a movie short. Pro football, recognizing them as the greatest two-star combination in college football history, put in high bids. The offers piled up. Last week, West Point's touchdown twins, Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard (along with End Barney Poole), asked the War Department for fall furloughs to take advantage of their $100,000-a-season offers...
...wish of Blanchard & Davis to earn side money without giving up their Army careers was just too much for several sport columnists. Hearstling Bill Corum threatened to boycott them if they put on a pro uniform. In Washington, Illinois' Representative Leslie C. Arends fumed: "I thought we sent these boys to West Point* to be future officers and not pro football players...
Results of tomorrow's meet, starting at 2 o'clock, will be studied by Ivy League track mentors who remember Harvard's 1942 Heptagonal sweep. The Cadets, of course, have Davis and Blanchard. They also have a 239-pounder named Schultz in the weight-throw, several strong distance runners and hurdlers, and a 3:26.6 mile relay team...
...mile run--Won by Blanchard (T); F. Gurley (H); third J. Cogan (H). Time...
...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...