Some days are more interesting than others. This was a day in 1996 for me, a day when I was working for a newspaper in Middletown, N.Y., and within the space of an hour, I spent 30 minutes apiece talking to a pair of old football players.
“No one is going to know who you’re writing about,” Felix “Doc” Blanchard said, laughing.
“Those days might as well have happened in the 1800s,” Glenn Davis joked not long after.
Maybe in certain pockets of the country, that was true. But not in the mid-Hudson Valley, where the exploits of Blanchard — aka “Mr. Inside” — and Davis — aka “Mr. Outside” — were still the stuff of legend. Blanchard had won the Heisman Trophy in 1945, the first junior so honored. Davis succeeded him in 1946. Together they were the heart of a period in West Point football that still resonates all these years later.
