Copyright The Voice Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. But, except for a stint with a base team at Fort Campbell, Carpenter was done with football. The Dons, however, didnt survive the merger with NFL teams in 1950 and went into the history book. Despite Staubach's spotless reputation, both at Annapolis and when he starred for the Dallas Cowboys, the most gifted of the five was probably Davis, the lightning-quick halfback from Burbank, Calif. Like Blanchard a three-time all-American, Davis rolled up 59 touchdowns and 4,129 yards rushing, receiving and passing as his West Point team went undefeated from 1944 through 1946. The medic lifted Holleder's head into his arms and watched the big man die. Suddenly, one of them said he'd seen the downed pilot waving. But last May, doctors told him the cancer was back. "To the national sports fan, Army-Navy just doesn't mean the same thing," said Bo Coppage, a former Navy athletic director, who played in the 1944 game. Blaik moved him to halfback for his three varsity seasons, while Doc Blanchard took over at fullback. He became special events director for the Los Angeles Times, organizing and directing the newspaper's charity fundraising events. He then went on to get a masters in architecture from the University of Minnesota. Brian graduated from Yale in 1975, after playing football for their championship team, which he would only tell you about if you asked. Inside". Those deaths - and that of Virginia halfback Archer Christian in November - reenergized the public outcry against football. Looking tired and weak, Davis got a standing ovation from the crowd. He excelled at everything but baseball," Werley said. Each level is a new adventure with tricky questions and new words to explore. "It breaks my heart. Because of wartime travel restrictions, the Army's corps of cadets couldn't get to the game in Annapolis. "It was all a kind of blur. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. He turned, almost inexplicably, to Holleder. "I couldn't get him out of the cockpit. He asked us not to go. His right leg was crushed and entangled in metal and instruments.". Later, during a radio interview, he broke down and couldn't hold back tears. "How can they be so happy so soon after the war?" According to our records, Yvonne Ameche Davis is possibly single. ", Davis: "I'll be talking to you. While Brown (no relation to Wesley), a sharecropper's son, attended blacks-only schools in Jim Crow Mississippi, Hudner, the white son of a prosperous Fall River businessman, went to prestigious Phillips Academy before entering Annapolis. The academies tightened their recruiting standards. "The adoption eliminated the cruder versions of nineteenth-century football and established the groundwork for a sleeker, faster, wide-open game," football historian John Watterson wrote in American Heritage magazine. The Game of Their Lives: Pro Football's Wonder Years. Yvonne Ameche (12 July 1996 - 9 March 2005) ( his death), Harriet Ellen Lancaster (17 April 1953 - 5 February 1995) ( her death), Terry Moore (9 February 1951 - 1 April 1952) ( divorced) Sibling: Not Available . Two other passengers were in the rear seat of said automobile. "It's been so hard to see Glenn Davis suffer like this," said Riska, 68, who grew up in New York idolizing Davis. Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree. Col. John Byrne had never been so afraid as when he looked down at his motionless son. expand_more. After services in LaQuinta and Berwyn, Pa. Yvonne Davis' hometown, where they spent several summers Davis will be laid to rest at the Academy. Doc Blanchard, the Army fullback whose name is forever linked with Davis' - "Mr. The game had ended, with Navy stranded on the Army 4. "In those days," Davis said, "freshmen at West Point didn't leave the base for a year.". If he had not played alongside a fellow Hall of Famer like Blanchard, those numbers would be significantly higher. Stills. Jennifer Lawrence Facts. "I didn't know if he could do it or not, but he did it.". "But the terrain was too bad, and there were too many enemy soldiers in the area. Fearing the German U-boats that were suspected to be patrolling less than 100 miles off the East Coast, three destroyers surrounded the transport. Alan Ameche. His coach, the normally reserved Red Blaik, insisted Davis was "jet-propelled" and called him "emphatically the greatest halfback I ever knew.". The brothers were close and had originally planned to attend USC in Los Angeles, but when their U.S. Representative agreed to sponsor them with appointments to West Point, they decided to go there. "His legs were churning. No request was made by the defendants to submit to the jury the issue of assumption of risk because of acquiescence by the plaintiff to the excessive speed. He will be pleased if people recognize him and talk about his playing days, but happier still if they want to discuss West Point. We have estimated Alan Ameche's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets. But Brown persevered. Blanchard and Davis, Mr. "No one was happy," Carrington recalled. Alan and Yvonne Ameche-Davis P'71'72'76'77 Brigadier General Curtis A. Buzzard '88 Joan Downs P'96'96'98 Charles "Chic" Kelly '88 James Murray P'88 GP'16 Don O'Neill '57 TE. Large gallery of Yvonne Ameche Davis pics. Hudner, meanwhile, after graduation from Annapolis in 1946 (study then was compacted into three years; he, technically, is in the Class of 1947), had various assignments at sea and on land, none of which terribly interested him. Since May, Davis spent months in various hospitals, different IVs running into his veins. In the 1946 Army-Navy game, one in which the heavily favored Cadets barely held on, 21-18, Davis scored on a 40-yard run, threw a 27-yard TD pass, and caught a 30-yard pass while racking up 265 yards of total offense. He . Army, as expected, took an early lead. "He just doesn't like the limelight.". This weekend, with the nation again at war, sending young men into battle in response to the first attack on U.S. soil since World War II, Davis will be an honored guest at the 102d Army-Navy game, in Philadelphia. 55. In Biographical Summaries of Notable People . When retired Navy aviator Thomas J. Hudner Jr. walks toward midfield at Lincoln Financial Field Saturday afternoon for the coin toss to start the 111th Army-Navy game, the 2010 Navy cocaptains accompanying him will both be African Americans. Davis (and Blanchard) did earn $25,000 each by appearing in the low-budget movie The Spirit of West Point (about their football careers). Two plays later, the Cadets' Dale Hill ran 20 yards for the game's first points. 1. . Given his athletic skills, Ameche starred in track during his high school days and was a gifted amateur boxer. World War I canceled it in 1917 and 1918. Retreat was unthinkable. But it was Holleder - in those days of no-platoon football, the offense played defense, too - who kept them from doing so. Davis was helped on the field by Army great Pete Dawkins, Heisman winner in 1958. Then, with five minutes remaining, 175 Secret Service agents, eager to hustle Truman away before the game ended, escorted the president from his seat to a waiting train. Navy had arrived in Philadelphia on Thursday, eating Thanksgiving dinner on the train. "At Chicago University the men are out several hours a day and we have never had any fatal accidents.". He starred on the basketball court. He scored more touchdowns than the opposition did points. Tom Poston . Yvonne Davis is now a widow of two Heisman Trophy winners. There is apparently some misapprehension as to the extent of the duty owed to a guest by the host. There was public feeling that after the expense of his West Point education, he should not just go off to play football. Menu. After his assassination the next November, eight days before the game was scheduled to take place, there was pressure to cancel it. A few years later, Bill Carpenter Sr. would be killed by a German bullet during the final month of World War II. Hamilton sent in another illegal sub, Bill Earl, but Halloran never acknowledged him. When the 1946 Army-Navy game rolled around, Army hadn't been beaten since falling to Navy in 1943. "Holleder was a natural athlete, big, strong, quick, smart, aggressive, a competitor," Blaik wrote in his 1960 autobiography. Davis moved to Texas to work in the oil industry, but returned to California a few years later. "The excitement attending it exceeds all reasonable limits," said Maj. Oswald Ernst, then the U.S. Military Academy's superintendent. Alan Ameche Pisces 1952 - 1988 . Davis is also survived by his son, Ralph; stepson, John Slack; sister Mary Gammons; and several grandchildren. . He just looked back and yelled, 'C'mon, Doc, there's wounded in there. The colorful event, to be contested for the 109th time this afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field, has been played in all but five of the last 100 Decembers. "The ways the cameras were positioned, you couldn't tell if he [Williams] really got out of bounds or not," Carrington said. "Bring it right on top of me!" Tom Ford. After his one and only lacrosse season, he was named an all-American. "There was this scene where I was supposed to catch a punt, go to the right, fake a handoff and then cut back to get away from tacklers. The 1946 game was the pinnacle of the Army-Navy series. Players had difficulty gripping the ball at first, and the early play was sloppy. . Davis began making funeral arrangements with his wife after his kidneys began to fail last week. "It always seems to.". One of his two passes was intercepted, and the other should have been. Brian was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin on June 19, 1953, the son of Alan Ameche and Yvonne Ameche Davis. The move to the much larger facility on Baltimore's 33d Street not only helped satisfy the public's interest in the game, it allowed government officials to sell more war bonds. Certificate After graduating from high school, both went to the University of Wisconsin. Their wartime meetings on the first Saturday in December - two of Davis' took place at old Municipal Stadium in South Philadelphia, the others at West Point and Baltimore - became sporting events on a par with the World Series. He was 55 years old. College football and the nation changed. The score was 9-0 at halftime. 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