Doc Blanchard
American football player and coach
Died when: 84 years 129 days (1012 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Felix Anthony "Doc" Blanchard (December 11, 1924 – April 19, 2009) was an American football player and serviceman who became the first junior to win the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award, and was the first football player to win the James E.
Sullivan Award, all in 1945.He played football for the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was known as "Mr.
Inside." Because his father was a physician, Felix Blanchard was nicknamed "Little Doc" as a boy.After football, he was a fighter pilot in the U.S.
Air Force, and served from 1947 until 1971, when he retired with the rank of colonel.
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