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The $25,000 a season he could make playing pro football looked pretty tempting to 2nd Lieut. Glenn Davis, late of West Point. It obviously had more glamor as well as more pay than his Army job ($2,412 a year). So he wrote a confidential letter of resignation to his commanding officers. Last week, after some noisy throat-clearing in Washington, "Junior" Davis got a sharp answer from Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall. Normally, said Royall, an officer can resign from the Army when he wants to, but this was still a time of "national emergency." The Army, he said, needs trained officers "who, in good faith, entered its professional commissioned ranks."

"They make the rules and I'll have to abide by them," said Davis. His All-America sidekick on Army's unbeatable teams, "Doc" Blanchard, had made no attempt to get out: he seemed happy as a flying officer in the Air Force. Davis, who is in the infantry, now plans to serve a few more years in the Army, then try again to get out. Said he: "I won't play pro football if I've got to lay off for three more years Maybe I'll coach. I don't know right now."

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