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...named the team's most valuable player in its title year, and was awarded the Jack Fadden Award his senior year-following shoulder surgery-for performing under a physical handicap...
...know quite a bit, but I'm no child psychologist," Fadden deadpanned...
...just the wit that keeps the bruised athletes interested. Fadden has been around the world, by his account, 15 times and has a trip to China (his second) planned for after the 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...
...after 60 years, the secret has long been out about Jack Fadden. He's been sick through some of this season, so he hasn't been around as much as usual, but the Fadden influence is never far. Whether it's the plaque for the Jack Fadden award, presented annually to the Harvard athlete who has overcome the most physical hardship to contribute to his team (last year's winner was Julie Cornman) or just the memories of those whom he has touched, John Patrick Fadden is a beloved part of Harvard athletics. Perhaps the highest tribute came from former...