Doc Blanchard
Soldier, American football player
1924 – 2009
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Who was Doc Blanchard?
Felix Anthony "Doc" Blanchard is best known as the college football player who became the first ever junior to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and was the first ever football player to win the James E. Sullivan Award, all in 1945. He played football for the United States Military Academy at West Point. Because his father was a doctor, Felix Blanchard was nicknamed "Little Doc" as a boy. After football, he served in the United States Air Force from 1947 until 1971 when he retired with the rank of Colonel.
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- Born
- Dec 11, 1924
McColl - Also known as
- Felix Blanchard
- Felix Anthony Blanchard
- Mr. Inside
- Doc
- Felix Anthony Blanchard Jr.
- 'Doc' Blanchard
- Felix 'Doc' Blanchard
- Felix A. Blanchard
- Little Doc
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Jody King Blanchard
(1948/10/12 - 1994)
- Jody King Blanchard
- Children
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- United States Military Academy
(1944 - 1946) - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(1942 - 1943) - Saint Stanislaus College
- United States Military Academy
- Employment
- Commandant, New Mexico Military Institute
(1971 - 1973)
- Commandant, New Mexico Military Institute
- Lived in
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Dexter
- McColl
- Died
- Apr 19, 2009
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on July 23, 2013
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