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...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 kind of thing in Dillon Field House on and off--mostly on--since...
...Harvard University directory lists John Patrick Fadden as a Physical Therapist in the Department of Athletics, and if you think that's the whole story, you probably think Ted Williams was born to be a fisherman. After nearly 60 years with Harvard athletics, Fadden could be a legend simply because of his longevity. That, however, is not the case...
...have been associated with Fadden in his tenure here (or during his 1950-1965 stint as trainer of the Boston Red Sox) disagree. The Fadden Treatment involves part blarney, part ego deflation, part sympathy and a healthy does of medical expertise. Combine these virtues with the vantage point of 81 years of varied and usually fascinating living, and Fadden begins to seem like a legend...
...trainer's patient that November morning was Harvard offensive tackle Mike Durgin, who was nursing a sore shoulder. While Fadden had stepped away, a visitor asked the hulking senior about the white-haired and bespectacled old man's secret. Durgin smiled and pointed to his head. "I've learned more from that man than anything over there," he said, gesturing in the direction of the Yard and its classrooms...
Durst aggravated an injury to the ligaments in his left knee in the Crimson's 28-17 victory over Penn last Saturday. On and off crutches since Saturday, he has not worked out with the team all week, instead undergoing theraphy with trainer/oracle Jack Fadden...