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...Texas -- Felix "Doc" Blanchard, the 1945 Heisman Trophy winner and Army's Mr. Inside in one of college football's most famous backfields, has died. He was 84. Blanchard's daughter, Mary Blanchard, told The Associated Press late Sunday night in a phone interview...
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"He's been strong all his life," she said.
The bruising fullback Blanchard, listed at 6 feet, 208 pounds, and Glenn Davis, aka Mr. Outside, helped Army win consecutive national titles in 1944-45.
Notre Dame coach Ed McKeever was quoted as saying about
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Felix "Doc" Blanchard, the 1945 Heisman Trophy winner and Army's Mr. Inside
in one of college football's most famous backfields, has died. He was 84.
Blanchard's daughter, Mary Blanchard, said late Sunday night in a phone interview that her father
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...in one of college football's most famous backfields, has died. He was 84. . (AP Photo/Lindsay/FILE) - AP BULVERDE, Texas Felix "Doc" Blanchard, the 1945 Heisman Trophy winner and Army's Mr. Inside in one of college football's most famous backfields, has died....
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Felix “Doc” Blanchard, the 1945 Heisman Trophy winner from Army has died. He was 84.
Here is the story by The Associated Press:
Felix “Doc” Blanchard, the 1945 Heisman Trophy winner and Army’s Mr. Inside in one of college football’s most famous
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...Texas - Felix “Doc” Blanchard, the 1945 Heisman Trophy winner and Army’s Mr. Inside in one of college football’s most famous backfields, has died. He was 84. Blanchard’s daughter, Mary Blanchard, told The Associated Press late Sunday night in a phone interview...
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..."Doc" Blanchard, who won the 1945 Heisman Trophy and teamed with Glenn Davis to form one of the most famous backfields in college football history, died at his home in Bulverde, Texas, on Saturday, according to family members. He was 84. Blanchard and Davis...
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..."Doc" Blanchard, who won the 1945 Heisman Trophy and teamed with Glenn Davis to form one of the most famous backfields in college football history, died at his home in Bulverde, Texas, on Saturday, according to family members. Blanchard and Davis helped lead...
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During these endless days leading up to Sunday's Super Bowl, "super" is tossed around so often that the word just fades into so much hyperbole.
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SAN ANTONIO — Notre Dame has received 18 verbal commitments to its recruiting class of 2009, but with a dwindling list, there may not be many, if any, late additions to the group.
One player who remains in play is
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Baker injured his knee during the season while playing for Oak Park and apparently that injury is keeping him from playing in the game, though he is participating in all of the charity events and other functions that go along with being selected to the
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Recently, the winner of the Heisman Trophy almost always goes to a team either in the National Championship or at least in a BCS game. Once upon a time the Heisman was just awarded to the best player in college football, regardless of their team's
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Sixty-two years after he last wore a football uniform, Miami's Arnold Tucker took his place among the college game's greats.
The Army quarterback, point man for one of the prolific backfields in major-college history, officially joined the College
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Trivia question: How many players have won the Heisman Trophy and an Associated Press or Bowl Championship Series title in the same season? Think about this one for a moment. By definition, the Heisman is meant to reward college football’s most
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He remembers the phone call as vividly as he recalls listening to his first Army-Navy game.
The country was deep into World War II.
Art Browne was a 9-year old living in the New York Metropolitan area. And Army was really good in football, a sport he
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All-Scholastic offensive lineman Brennan Williams of Catholic Memorial is one of eight finalists for the prestigious Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis Awards. Both renowned Army Football icons, Glenn Davis and Felix “Doc” Blanchard were college football’s
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1945 – “Mr. Inside” Doc Blanchard of Army becomes the first junior to win the Heisman Trophy. Blanchard also becomes the only athlete to win both the Heisman and Sullivan Award.
1951 – Princeton triple-threat tailback Richard Kazmaier wins the
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...the eyes of defenders like they were looking at the planet Saturn. He also played linebacker, placekicker, and punter. 1942, Doc Blanchard was a freshman at North Carolina. At the end of the year, he enlisted in the United States Army. On July 2, 1944, Blanchard...
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1945 was unlike any other year on record.
World War II was ongoing but the Soviets had marched into Poland. Germany’s Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had fled to his underground bunker, properly titled the Fuhrerbunker.
This is the same year where President
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-- Hakeem Nicks, North Carolina, had three touchdown catches and ran for a score to help the Tar Heels beat No. 23 Boston College 45-24 and become bowl eligible for the first time in four years.
-- Kevin Goessling, Fresno State, kicked a 58-yard field
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Movies about athletes are not unusual, but “The Express” focuses on a fairly exclusive club: Heisman Trophy winners. Since we're talking Hollywood here, we thought we'd put together a list of some of the Heisman champs who have a connection, in one way
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This is what the people in Arizona are saying about the Cowboys:
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The Cowboys have a large, powerful offensive line and a running back tandem that is both productive and dangerous. So the Cardinals' defense has a simple packing list for Sunday's game at University of Phoenix Stadium.
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Last week's adventure, which told of my car accident during the summer of 1950, was my final Rambler story. What I thought was going to be a year's worth of episodes ended up taking two and a half years. The first Rambler Diary story was published on
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Glenn Davis was such a star, his debut with the Rams was headline news. Even if the game wasn't a real game.
Davis, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1946 as part of powerhouse Army teams, was the main attraction at the Rams' intrasquad game at Gilmore Stadiu...
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In this clip, Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack tackles 1945 Heisman Trophy winner Felix "Doc" Blanchard. Probably not the most impressive physical display, but the tackle prevented a touchdown, and save a fourth-straight unbeaten season for the Irish and a national title.
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Tom Lombardo was not supposed to be climbing a hill in South Korea in September 1950, leading his regiment in pursuit of retreating North Korean forces.
The front line was not his assignment.
But as many who remember the Soldan High graduate attest,
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Quick facts: The most historically successful program among the bottom 10 teams, Army is deep into its worst stretch since the early 1980s. Those teams, under Coach Ed Cavanaugh, won 10 games over a three-year span. Under the direction of Red Blaik,
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ALLEN PARK -- West Point has made a lasting imprint on the tradition of college football. It stands above any won-lost record the Army teams have achieved in the 21st Century.
Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, the Army backfield "Touchdown Twins," were
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The focus of this column is strange, almost ludicrous: A reader of a website dies. Have you ever seen anything like that? I can only respond by saying, "I've never seen anyone like Frank McNellis." Actually, I've never seen Mr. McNellis, period. Sadly,
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May 5, 1922: Construction begins on Yankee Stadium on a lot at the corner of East 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx.
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...Horvath, won a narrow and controversial election over two sophomores, the heralded backfield mates from Army, Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, who finished second and third. At the time, decades before college players could leave early for the NFL, some sportswriters,...
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...senior linebacker Brendan Beal was nominated today for the 2008 Doc Blanchard Award, a national honor given by the U.S. Army All-America Bowl. Beal already has been nominated to play in the All-America Bowl, a national high-school all-star game scheduled for...
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...Blanchard won't be part of the A&M; vs. Army hoopla Army football's greatest living legend agrees this weekend's clash of cadets — the game between Army and Texas A&M on Saturday night in the Alamodome — is a wonderful thing for both schools and for the city...
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