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...type of player he wants, Brown sends his scouts to small colleges. From Nevada, he picked up Negro fullback Marion Motley, who is already being spoken of as a more devastating line-plunger than Army's "Doc" Blanchard. He collected a great pass-catching end (Mac Speedie) from the University of Utah, a great punter ("Horse" Gillom) from Massillon (Ohio) High School, the best place-kicker in the land (Lou Groza), who never played varsity at any college. The only big-time college hero on his squad is his passer, trigger-armed Otto Graham, late of Northwestern...
...been doing his best for the past 11 seasons to keep Crimson football players out of Stillman Infirmary, takes the realistic attitude. "There is simply no such animal as a football iron man," he scoffs. "They all get hurt." If challenged as to the physical prowess of Doc Blanchard and similar "iron men", he makes one allowance. "There is," he concedes, "a type of boy who can overcome injuries by coordinating his style of play to fit the particular aliment-in contrast to the player who gets knocked out of kilter like a delicate watch with a grain of sand...
TIME, July 28 says Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis "are making a movie for Paramount." Paramount is making a picture with the background of West Point, tentatively entitled The Long Grey Line, but Blanchard and Davis aren't in it. I believe they are in Hollywood working for another producer. They're good guys and we wish them luck...
...Doc Blanchard & Glenn Davis, the touchdown twins, doing time on the Great Rock Candy Pile, where they are making a movie for Paramount, had one of those prison-type pictures made. They will soon have to give up sweets, though, to play with the Eastern College All-Stars against the professional New York Giants...
...Durocher would have been proud of the Big Green, In winning the opener, they used such Ebbets Field, specialities as the squeeze play, daring base running, and bench jockeying, and in the second game plate umpire Doc Gautreau was involved in at least three rhubarbs with rate Hanoverians...