Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backfield know how to throw their weight around legally and still make it hurt plenty. Above all, Army has the two best backs to come down the pike in years. One is a human blockbuster named Felix ("Doc") Blanchard. The other is a jet-propelled gent named Glenn ("Junior") Davis. They make Army's cream-smooth T attack bubble and boil like no other T in the land...
Halfback Davis has far too much leg drive to suffer comparison with such outstanding scat-backs as Yale's Albie Booth. Nor is he comparable to snake-hipped Red Grange. Junior carries a special kind of speed that is all his own. After a brief show of hippiness, enough to get around the end, he simply leans forward and sprouts wings. Once outside, he makes would-be tacklers look ridiculous as they try to cope with his speed, his willowy change of pace and starchy stiff arm. He has gained a grand total of 1,777 yards...
Double or Nothing. The other half of Army's high explosive charge is deer-footed Junior Davis, also 20 (he looks younger) and also a second-year Cadet. He was just about the best schoolboy athlete ever grown in Southern California. At Claremont, a citrus-belt town of well-manicured lawns and ivy-covered homes, his high-school sports were football, baseball, basketball and track. He won the Knute Rockne Trophy for being Southern California's outstanding schoolboy track star...
...Junior got his nickname by being born 90 minutes after his twin brother, Ralph. Everything since then has been a double-or-nothing proposition. When one of the Davis twins snipped the tail off one of their cocker spaniel pups and carried the butt as a souvenir, so did the other. They worked together summers, double-dated together, played high-school football together...
During one game, Junior flipped a long pass downfield that was called back for a penalty. Twice more he threw and connected, once to End Ralph, but both plays were nullified. So Junior just up and ran 50 yards for a touchdown. Capping his thunderous high-school career by scoring 236 points his senior year, he had a mild yen for nearby University of Southern California. When West Point beckoned, he said no-unless brother Ralph could come along too. Yes, he could...