The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-24
Sports
 
By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer

New YOrk, sept. "A - (UR) - Army's hopes for a third undefeat- ed football season had a bad bruise today-on Doc Blanchard's leg with the ace extending to Cadet public relations.
 The West Point coaching staff for two seasons has kept the condition weights and ages of its players as secret as D-Day plans. Now it is &C., cused of deliberately misinforming sports writers about the details of the great Blanchard's bruises.
 So everybody is sore at the brass hats with the braid, including rival coaches, opposing players and men who chronicle the grid doings of the sons of slum and gravy. And it all shapes up to an Army hidden ball play which may wind up with an Oklahoma triumph this Saturday.
 Calls It Heel Br1ise
 Blanchard, one of the greatest fullbacxs in collegiate history, limp ed from the field Saturday after the first quarter of the Villanova game. An emissary returned from Blaik with the report:
 Nothing wrong. Just a heel bruise suffered in practice"
 But yesterday, Col. Harvey (Jab- bo) Jablonski, former Cadet star now a line coach, disclosed that Blanchard suffered a leg muscle bruise against Villanova which brought every doctor in the Hudson valley running to the infirmary. Army had hoped to keep this hid- den with a fake Achilles heel but Jabbo hits straight from the Shoul- der.
 They won't know, at the Point, until tomorrow whether Blanchard will be available for duty against Oklahoma. Without him the Army is just another ball club, as it showed when Glenn Davis was smthered because the Blanchard threat was removed from the mid dle. So the odds are that if Doc can stand, he'll play.
 Sooner Line Heavier
 Oklahoma will be a happy outfit if the olive-cheeked buzz saw sits this one out. The Sooners have been pointing toward this tilt for long time and Jablonski claims their line will outweight Army on the average, 210 pounds to POI.
 Jabbo admits that the 20l-pound average is calculated on program weights"
 Which means that the Army line undoubtedly is a lot heavier. Blaik will deny this, but he won't let you get near the field house where they truck the boys onto the scales and weigh them.
 Still, Army is just mediocre when you get past that first team. And without Blanchard to threaten the middle and tighten the secondary so Davis can run wide, it's just an- other ball club. If Blanchard sits it out, Oklahoma should win to the accomplishment of laundering cheers from coaches who have stasted Army's crushing cleats dur ing the past two years.
 Waiting to Kick Army
 For Blak has pulled no punches in his victory march, and many a coach Is nursing grudge which will bear humiliating fruit for the Cadets in coming years. The frater- nity makes no secret of the fact that when they finally get Army down, they'll kick 'em.
 But as long as Blanchard and Davis combine for one-two punch, they'll be tough to shave. As Her man Hickman, Cadet line coach, put it when talking to Quarterback Arnold Tucker:
 First run Blanchard into the | middle Then run Davis wide.'
 What then?" Tucker asked.
 'Migawd," roared Hickman, Isn't that enough?"
 It is. But without Blanchard you may be hearing about quite an up- set come Saturday. And you can bet your bottom dollar that if it | comes now-or later-the typewrit- CTS will clack happily.