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Updated at 6:37 p.m., Sunday, April 19, 2009

Army's Mr. Inside, Heisman winner Doc Blanchard, dies at 84

Associated Press

BULVERDE, Texas — Felix "Doc" Blanchard, the 1945 Heisman Trophy winner and Army's Mr. Inside in one of college football's most famous backfields, has died. He was 84.

Blanchard's daughter, Mary Blanchard, told The Associated Press late last night in a phone interview that her father died of pneumonia at home earlier in the day.

The bruising Blanchard and Glenn Davis, aka Mr. Outside, helped Army win consecutive national titles in 1944-45. The year after Blanchard won the Heisman Trophy, Davis won it and Army went undefeated again.