1945 Army Cadets
Here's the team that had two Heisman Trophy winners in the backfield -- Touchdown Twins Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis.
It's difficult to overstate the dominance that this team displayed in winning the 1944 and 1945 national championships. Consider that coach Red Blaik virtually had his pick of the nation's able-bodied young men near and at the end of WWII, and the Cadets ran roughshod over all competition.
They didn't lose a game for three seasons (25 wins in a row, 27-0-1), including a 1945 showdown against No. 2 Notre Dame that resulted in a 45-0 thrashing.
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Blanchard ("Mr. Inside") won the 1945 Heisman, edging Davis ("Mr. Outside") in a two-man race for the honor, but Davis won the Helms Foundation "Outstanding Player of the Year" award.
Granted, because of the war, the schedule wasn't the toughest, but when they did run into the best that the nation could offer, the games were still no contest: Notre Dame was dusted 46-0, Penn went down 66-0 and previously unbeaten Navy hung around long enough to lose by only 32-13 in the game of the year.
The offense, directed by quarterback Arnold Tucker, was by far the best in the country (463 yards, 46 points a game), and the defense recorded six shutouts in 10 games, and allowed no opponent more than Navy's 13 points.
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| Date | Score | Opponent |
| Sept. 29 | 32-0 | Louisville, AAF |
| Oct. 6 | 54-0 | Wake Forest |
| Oct. 13 | 28-7 | Michigan at Yankee Stadium |
| Oct. 20 | 55-13 | Melville, R.I., USN |
| Oct. 27 | 48-13 | Duke at Polo Grounds |
| Nov. 3 | 54-0 | Villanova |
| Nov. 10 | 48-0 | Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium |
| Nov. 17 | 61-0 | at Pennsylvania |
| Dec. 1 | 32-13 | Navy at Municipal Stadium |