The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
BY JACK GUENTHER Limited Press COrrespondent)


 New York, Nov. 6.--CUp)-They work with boys who must be stu- dents first, last and always, and besides teaching football they're pres pariny their players for battles more important than you'll find on any gridiron. They must obtain more results in less time than any other coaches and there isn't a single career athlete on ueitheg of their squads.
 Yet somehow they've come up with the two most surprising teams Of the Io4i campaign and Satur- day after Saturday they've given the sports fans of the nation foot- ball thrills second to none. So, for the first time, the United Press presents two coaches of the week. Earl Fl. (Red) Blaik of the Army and Emery E, (Swede) Larson of the Navy.
 On the surface these men appear made of the same mold. Both of them graduated from the academies at which they now coach and both are schooled in military traditions. But since they graduated they've fol- lowed different paths and today they use different methods. The only similarity in their teams Is that both are undeteated.
 Earl Blalk is Q 44-year old, red- haired ex-cavalry officers who is such strict disciplinarian that his players call him mister. A gradu- ate of Miami University before he was commissioned at West Point in 1920, he has spent all but four years since he resigned from the Army in 1922 teaching football-at Wis consin, the Army, Dartmouth and the Army again.
 Blaik Is publicized as the first civilian coach in Army history, but that is only technically true. A capable enud, despite his lack of weight, on the Cadet team, he was Q brilliant student-winning the coveted saber award and really great tactician. After Q brief buSi- ness career and an assistant coach- ing job in Wisconsin, he returned to Army the first time as assistant in 1927.
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 From that year until 1884 Blaik worked under three head Cadet coaches. He was just an assistant but he received much of the credit for the great Army teams of the period. He produced Red Cagle and he mapped all the Army strategy, offensive and defensive. He was % good, in fact, that in 1884 he was hired by Dartmouth as head coach and promptly built the Big Green up as major power of the Ivy league.
 But last year Army football for- tunes reached their lowest. The Cadets won only one game, that by 8 single point from tiny Williams, and lost to Penn and Cornell by phone number scores. The call went out and Blaik came back to West Point a second time-and again he has made good. Using the same players who were kicked around in l940, he has turned out team which has whipped Citadel, V. M. l., Yale and Columbia, and tie Notre Dame.
 Blaik Is an exponent of the War ner system-highly complicated re- verses, fake reverses, double reverses and triple reverseS and his teams snap and click as precisely on the gridiron as the Cadets march on the parade grounds. Although he has only five capable replacements and his men are consistently out weighed and out-manned, they've out-charged everyone they've faced
 Emery Ellsworth Larson of the Navy is coach of another pat tern. He's a big, bluff. hearty feI- low who looks like major of mar ines, which he is. No strict mem tor, he meets the MIddies Ion an equal basis and aften has caught plentyq of hell for sneaking his boys a second dish of ice cream. He's the "Swede" to all who know him and his personality is stamped on his team.
 Swede Larson was captain of the 1921 Navy team. He was an All- American center and in the three