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Encyclopedia of World Biography on Felix Blanchard
Felix "Doc" Blanchard (born 1924) was an outstanding football player, who won the 1945 Heisman Award while attending the United States Military Academy at West Point. Blanchard did not play professional football, but went on to a distinguished career in the military.
Blanchard was born on December 11, 1924, in McColl, South Carolina (some sources say Bishopville, SC), the son of Dr. Felix Anthony Blanchard and his wife Mary. Because his father was a country doctor, Blanchard was known as "Little Doc." His father had played football at Wake Forest and Tulane University as a fullback. At the latter college, he played under the name of Gaston Beaulieu because his parents did not want him to play football. Had his deception come to light he would have been forced to leave school. He passed his passion for football down to his only son. A football was put in Blanchard's crib when he...
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