Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight Bells & Books. Junior's plebe year ("suck up your gut and pull in your chin") was hard going. Low marks made him double up on some courses, and all but forget football. Sometimes too weary to open a book at night, he would hit the hay at 8, set his alarm for a chilly...
...something else again. After he got the upper hand of his studies, he became the all-conquering football team's top scorer. He gave up indoor track to play on the Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel bar dips, softball throw, sit-ups-he scored an all-time...
...football field, Junior is the cool, brow-puckering type who insists on shouldering all the worries he can. His big problem is throttling his 175 pounds down to the speed of his interference. Totally unlike most high-pressure halfbacks, he takes high delight in mowing down a rival tackier while running interference for somebody else (he cut down two Duke tacklers with one swoop to make way for a 36-yd. Blanchard touchdown...
...Frank Dancewicz were the immediate objectives to be taken (with 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...
Frank Sinatra is the chief spokesman and one of the chief promoters of this serious scolding to the race-conscious. He breaks up a gang of junior neighborhood toughs who are about to beat up a kid vaguely described as belonging to the wrong church. Sinatra then delivers a lecture: without traditional U.S. tolerance, Presbyterian Colin Kelly and his Jewish bombardier, Meyer Levin, would never have become great U.S. heroes...