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Year's lowest 18-hole stroke average: Byron Nelson's 68.33, good for 19 pro golf tourney wins and an unprecedented $66,600 in war-bond prizes (an A.P. poll named him "athlete of the year" over the Army's Fullback Doc Blanchard and Detroit's 25-game-winning Pitcher Hal Newhouser...
Navy's underdogs charged hard (six-man line, with two close backer-uppers) and barely missed some important tackles. But to miss Blockbuster Doc Blanchard and Speedster Glenn Davis was disaster: Army scored in seven plays...
...brief moment-after a 61-yard Bruce Smith-to-Clyde Scott touchdown pass-Navy almost got back into the ball game. Then Army's murderous line rushed Passer Smith off his feet. Far from their streamlined best in the last half, Blanchard & partner still managed to stage two touchdown explosions. Their day's total, five (Blanchard three, Davis two. The score: Army 32, Navy...
When Army's classy backfield combination of Doc Blanchard and Junior Davis turned up on TIME'S cover three weeks ago, it was only the second time in four years that TIME had put an athlete on its cover. Except for baseball's Mel Ott (July 2, 1945), no sports figure-for obvious reasons -had made the cover since two months before Pearl Harbor. Some sportsmen, who are among the most superstitious of mortals, considered this a good thing for all concerned...
...Brother Ralph, who scored only 490 points in the Master of the Sword test, plays on the B football team and is Blanchard's shot-putting track teammate...