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Some critics point to this penalty score as proof that Army plays dirty football. Those who have been through the grinder have made no such charge. Army's coach, Colonel Earl ("Red") Blaik, who believes there are more suitable places for pussyfooting than a gridiron, denies the charge and offers movies of their games as evidence that his Cadets keep within the slam-bang limits of big-time football...
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...
With Quarterback Arnold Tucker in the driver's seat, Army's first team is at least as good as last year's. The reserves are nowhere near as strong. That leaves Coach Blaik in the sorry state of the multimillionaire down to a mere eleven million...
Chronic moaner Earl ("Red") Blaik, Army's coach, moaned: "We're woefully short on backfield material"-which was one way of saying that his line was tremendous. And it was true that he had only a dozen backs. But that might suffice, since two of the twelve, Felix ("Doc") Blanchard and Glenn Davis, form football's deadliest one-two punch of the century...
Woody went straight to West Point's football coach, Lieut. Colonel Earl Blaik, and found a sympathetic ear. After boning, he passed his qualifying exams with 100 in math. Colonel Blaik found a Georgia Congressman who was willing to swap Woody's Congressman a current vacancy for one the following year. By this time it was the eve of Woody's 22nd birthday, when he would become too old for West Point entry. There was still no official notice of his appointment. Gambling on the chance that it had been sent direct to West Point, Woody...