The October 1946 SPORT Magazine Cover featured the United States Military Academy at West Point’s legendary backfield of Fullback Doc Blanchard and Halfback Glenn Davis. In 1945, Blanchard was the very first College Junior to win the Heisman Trophy and Maxwell Award as the best player in college football. Not to be out done, Davis would win the Heisman Trophy the following season in 1946. the pair would lead the Academy to three straight National Championships (1944-46).
SPORT Magazine, which ran from 1946 to 2000, celebrated what its editors accurately anticipated would be the coming explosion of interest in professional and amateur sport in post-war North America. Read more about the history of SPORT magazine here. (https://thesportgallery.ca/pages/about-sport-magazine).
Take home a piece of history with a SPORT Magazine cover, available as a fine art stretch canvas or fine art print.
Each reproduction is printed on 100% Hahnemuhle Photo Pearl paper using UltraChrome K3 pigmented inks and produced to the highest standard of archival quality available. Canvases are printed and stretched by hand in Toronto.