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...nine in the morning on a raw November day, Soldiers Field stretches out like a remote desert, seemingly much farther than its actual distance from the hub-bub of rush-hour Harvard Square. Inside Dillon Field House, the citadel of Crimson athletics, everything moves at a calm, leisurely pace, but the air is full of energy being stored. And under the bright lights of the training room, amid the smell of bandages, tape and salve, Jack Fadden is at work. He tapes and talks, talks and tapes, massaging his patients' bodies and minds. Jack Fadden has been doing the same...
...route Fadden took to Dillon Field House was fairly simple: Born in Boston to Irish-immigrant parents in 1899, Fadden went to assorted schools in the area until he began studying physical education with Dr. Tommy Richards, the doctor for the Harvard football team. Richards brought Fadden to Cambridge...
...football season. A widower, Fadden always travels by himself and never in tour groups. "I wouldn't learn anything talking to people on tours. I talk to the local people--whores, priests, chiefs of police, racketeers--I talk to them all." And then brings the stories back to Dillon--always in time for fall football practice...
Fadden has been around so long that some of his more unorthodox training procedures seem almost ordinary by now. His aversion to whirlpools is well known, if not widely shared, among Dillon regulars. "These guys who take two showers a day or use the (whirlpool) bath, they're losing all the oils in their skin. They'll get all itchy for sure. Me, I take one bath a week." And then he laughs...
...walking to Dillon just before the race and McCurdy stopped me to tell me he had been up all night thinking about it and he didn't think I should take the chance and run," Murphy said yesterday. "I think the disappointment of me not running took the edge off the team effort...