Doc Blanchard
Doc Blanchard enrolled at North Carolina where his mother’s cousin was the head coach of the football team, but after one year there he decided to join the military. Blanchard was rejected by the Navy’s V-12 program, which would have allowed him to finish school at UNC in return for a service commitment, for being overweight and having a vision problem. Blanchard enlisted in the Army, but his father secured him a spot at West Point, where he would go on to be one of the greatest football players of all-time.