Word: blaik
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...When the National Football Foundation chose football's top scholar-athletes for $500 Earl Blaik Fellowships, all eight turned out to be linemen-who are supposed to be long on brawn and short on brains. The winners: Tufts' David Thompson, Rutgers' Alex Kroll, Vanderbilt's Wade Butcher, Western Reserve's Albert Iosue, Colorado's Joe Romig, Rice's Robert Johnston, Oregon State's Mike Kline, Utah State's Merlin Olsen...
...bullets are being fired," West Pointer Eichelberger saw his first combat in 1918 as a member of the U.S. Expeditionary Force in Siberia (where he won three Japanese medals for bravery), earned an enduring place in the affections of Army men by bringing in winning Football Coach Earl Blaik during a prewar tour as Superintendent of West Point, and won equal, if somewhat more ironic, affection as a postwar Japanese occupation commander, where his friendly, homespun ways symbolized U.S. democracy and fairness...