Word: blaik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pollard, Fischl, and Cain should be rendered ineffective by Navy's stout defensive line. To the Army backs, it must have been more than some what embarrassing to be stopped by a line which had yielded generous amounts of yardage to inferior offenses all season. And to the younger Blaik, Armys' quarterback, it must have been a frustrating afternoon--he was like the driver of a high powered motor car which repeatedly stalls...
Hickman, in addition to being a coast-to-coast radio entertainer, a prize after dinner speaker, and the acknowledged poet laureate of the Great Smokies, is also a very good football coach. In 1943, when Earl Blaik was looking for the "best line coach in America," it was Hickman who went to West Point and had much to do with the success of the wartime Army teams...
...West Point, undefeated Army, the nation's No. i team, over New Mexico, 51-0, without the help of Head Coach Earl Blaik, who took the day off to scout Navy...
Glenn Davis, "Mr. Outside" on Blaik's great wartime teams and now, after resigning his commission,* a halfback for the Los Angeles Rams, added the crusher to the pileup. Said Halfback Davis: "In pro ball you meet a great team composed of 33 great players each week. Since the pros take the cream of the crop each year from the college ranks, it is only natural to find much better teams in pro ball...
...Blaik staggered lamely to his feet, explained: "I have no quarrel with pro ball. I merely think it is an entirely different game from college football, and that's what I said." Then Red Blaik went back to his regular business of coaching and saying very little. His all-winning (24 straight) Army team did his talking for him. At week's end they crushed all-losing (six straight) Harvard...