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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...
Dorrder of the day is a Harvard victory which may encRoche upon the conscience of the old ornithologist, whose eleFlynnt line and Champion backfield are Coan to keep the boys in the press box velly busy Cowenting up the Faberious score...
Tuesday, Adams House with several backfield men injured, managed to snag a 7 to 6 victory over Dudley when Harry Booth went over on a line buck and then made the winning conversion. Sherman Hall caught a pass for the Commuters to make the first score by a civilian team against the Gold Coasters...
Davis and Blanchard's individual fire power combined in one backfield adds NT to Blaik's T. With a smart quarterback mixing his one-two punches, Mister Inside and Mister Outside are guaranteed to drive a rival defense nuts. Even conservative Red Blaik says: "I doubt if any team ever had two such players in the backfield at the same time...
...general blew a fuse: "There never has been and there never will be a time when West Point will look with complacency on a 45-0 beating by Cornell and a 48-0 trouncing by Pennsylvania, especially in one football season." He spent a month persuading ex-Army Backfield Coach Red Blaik, whose single-wing formation was working wonders at Dartmouth, to return to the Point...