Miss. ‘Doc’ of Army-Navy football

Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer Felix ‘Doc’ Blanchard, one of the U.S. Military Academy’s Heisman Trophy award winners and retired Air Force Colonel, would be 90 years old Dec. 11 on the eve of the 84th consecutive Army-Navy football game Saturday in Baltimore, Md. During his three years of football at West Point, Army compiled an undefeated 27-0-1 record – tying Notre Dame 0-0. In 1945, Blanchard played against the Naval Academy’s Leon Bramlett, a two-time All-American running back who had played at Ole Miss and Alabama before going to Annapolis. Army won, 32-13. Both Blanchard and Bramlett, later a farmer-politician from Clarksville, Miss., were inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 and 1988 respectively. Saturday's game will air at 2 p.m. CT on CBS. (Wikipedia 12/11/14)