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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...
...little red tape on the way, the War Department turned it down. Said War Secretary Patterson: ". . . any other decision would be inimical to the best interests of the service . . . officers are now being sent on foreign service where there is a shortage of second lieutenants." Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard would have to go on just being soldiers, like everyone else at West Point...
...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...
Army won three places on the first squad of the "team of teams" chosen by the two press agencies, with Hank Foldberg, end, and the touchdown twins, Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, selected. No member of the Crimson opposition made the team...
...season last week, and time for the stars of 1946 to be showing their stripes. Some standouts: ¶ Army's Doc Blanchard, whose bad knee had started rumors that he was all through, proved it wasn't so by galloping to four touchdowns against unbeaten Columbia. Partner Glenn Davis played as healthy a game as ever. ¶ Illinois' Buddy ("Black Magic") Young, pre-season favorite who hadn't measured up to his advance billing, finally came to life. Young got off a 34-yard touchdown run which helped Illinois beat Wisconsin 27-to-21. ¶ Georgia...