Doc Blanchard carried a frame of 6 feet tall and weighed 205 pounds. He could run the 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds. During his West Point career, Doc averaged 6 yards per carry on 280 total ...

Mary Elizabeth Blanchard has a story to tell for every photo of her famous brother that she peels out of one scrapbook or another in her Sumter home. There was Doc Blanchard in uniform as a student at ...

BULVERDE, Texas — Felix “Doc” Blanchard was a college football superhero, the powerful Mr. Inside to Glenn Davis’ Mr. Outside in Army’s famous Heisman Trophy winning backfield of the 1940s. Blanchard, ...

Hollywood wanted them for a movie short. Pro football, recognizing them as the greatest two-star combination in college football history, put in high bids. The offers piled up. Last week, West Point’s ...

For my readers under the age of 50, “Doc” Blanchard is probably a “Little Known Character.” However, if you are over 50 years of age and a real football fan then you will know immediately who Doc ...

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 ...

Felix "Doc" Blanchard was a college football superhero, the powerful "Mr. Inside" to Glenn Davis's "Mr. Outside" in Army's famous Heisman Trophy-winning backfield of the 1940s. Mr. Blanchard, who won ...

Army football team member Felix "Doc" Blanchard Jr., right, gets an advance look at the Heisman Memorial Trophy to be presented to him a few hours later at the Downtown Athletic Club of New York.