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...West Point, the brass-buttoned chests had not been so puffed up and proud since the great Davis & Blanchard graduated. Army's football team, unbeaten in its first four games, was rated among the "big four" of the nation (the others: North Carolina, Notre Dame and Michigan). What's more, it was waist deep in sophomores who are good now and almost certain to get much better...
...there a Davis or a Blanchard hidden among them? Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik says emphatically, "Those days are gone forever"-but as he says it he gazes blandly at the ceiling, like a boy with his hand in the cookie jar. Blaik and everybody else at the Point feel that, in a pair of sophomores from the South, they have the makings of another Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside...
Married. Second Lieut. Felix Anthony ("Doc") Blanchard, 23, hefty "Mr. Inside" of the Army's great wartime football teams,* now an Air Force fighter pilot; and Josephine ("Jody") King, 21, San Antonio socialite; in San Antonio...
Offense is still the basis of the Michigan system, and Harvard will need plenty of it to outscore the Black Knights, who have a few tricks up their own braided sleeves. Gone is the bone-crusing line that spearheaded the forays of Davis and Blanchard, but Colonel Earl Blaik has lost none of his touch with the quick-opening...
...Lafayette, not far away, Purdue's Boilermakers were practicing in secret last week behind a high canvas screen. Businesslike Coach Stu Holcomb, who had been an assistant to Earl Blaik at West Point in the Davis-Blanchard heyday, had them hustling. He got the Boilermakers out on the practice field at an ungentlemanly 8:30 a.m., needled them with his impatient...