Joe Steffy, a star guard who opened the way for the Heisman Trophy winners Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis to burst through opposing lines for Army’s undefeated national football champions of the mid-1940s, died Saturday. In one season at the University of Tennessee and three at West Point, Steffy played on teams that lost only three games.
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Steffy graduated from West Point in 1949 and married the former Ann Brown in April 1950. His best man was John Trent, the captain of Army’s 1949 football team (he played end) and a fellow Tennessean. Two months later, the Korean War began. Lt. John Trent was killed in action near the port of Wonsan in November 1950. A month after that, Lieutenant Steffy was struck in the foot by a grenade while in combat. Suffering from frostbite as well, he was evacuated to Japan from the port of Hungnam and received a Bronze Star.
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