Glenn Woodward Davis

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Glenn Davis
'Time magazine cover from October 23, 1945. Davis is on the left.
Date of birth	December 26, 1924
Place of birth	Burbank, CA
Date of death	March 9, 2005
Position(s)	Halfback
College	Army
NFL Draft	1947 / Round 1/ Pick 2
Pro Bowls	1950
Awards	1946 Heisman Trophy
Statistics	Pro Football Reference DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
1950-1951	Los Angeles Rams
College Hall-of-Fame

Glenn Woodward Davis (December 26, 1924, Claremont, California - March 9, 2005) was an American football player famous in the 1940s. A member of the Class of 1947 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Under coach Earl Blaik, Davis teamed with Doc Blanchard to form a devastating pair of runners. With Davis and Blanchard, Army went 27-0-1 between 1944 and 1946.

Davis, nicknamed "Mr. Outside", won the Maxwell Award in 1944 and the Heisman Trophy in 1946. He was also among the runners up in 1944 and 1945. Blanchard, his teammate, won the award in 1945. Davis also was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year in 1946. As a collegian, Davis scored a then-record 59 touchdowns. He still holds the record for most yards averaged per carry in a season, with 11.5 yards in 1945. Together with Blanchard, they set a then-record 97 career touchdowns by a pair of teammates. (The record was broken by University of Southern California backs Reggie Bush and LenDale White, who had 99 career touchdowns.)

After graduation, Davis served three years in the military before joining the Los Angeles Rams. A knee injury in 1952 ended his professional career.

He died of prostate cancer at La Quinta, California.