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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...been 30 years. Driving through the jack-pine country of northern Wisconsin on his calls, Doc MacKinnon reflected: it had seemed much shorter than that. In the long country-doctor days and broken nights of George Elliott MacKinnon, now 60, he had brought hundreds -thousands-of children into life. Many a Finnish logger had come to his office in little (pop. 452) Prentice, Wis. to be patched up after a knife fight. There had been fevers, croups, contagions, the flu epidemic of 1919, when Doc was out on the drifted roads for eight subzero days & nights, .with a steaming horse...
...what had come over Prentice, Doc wondered? On the street, last week, people kept telling him, "Please don't have any babies on Thursday." On Wednesday his wife insisted that he get his calls all cleaned up. The next morning (after getting up at 5 to deliver baby No. 2,891) he discovered why: it was "MacKinnon Day" in Prentice...
...squad's loquacious trainer, Roland ("Beaver") Bevan, is good at both. He is as well stocked with football lore as Doc Blanchard's father was, and he has enough pain-curing equipment to stock a hospital for hypochondriacs (which Cadets are not). Some of Beaver's newer gadgets: an infra-red lamp for bruises and sprains, an ultraviolet lamp for infections, a paraffin oil bath to provide extra heat for sprains, a short-wave diathermy machine for deep-penetration heat, frigidaire ice packs for inflammations...
...Pennsylvania and Navy just over the horizon). Colonel Blaik had gone to Cleveland to see Notre Dame play Navy, and he had some facts to report. As the super-dupers perfected their defense against Notre Dame's plays, Junior Davis was fast approaching his best worrying mood, and Doc Blanchard's lips already had a Saturday afternoon tautness...