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...Stinn now comes down to Soldiers Field to watch, to help, to cheer--and to miss football badly. "It's weird," he said yesterday at practice, his grey warm-up suit setting him apart from the white-shirted defense and the red-shirted of-fense. "When I come down here now, I don't have a function and I'm an out-sider. After I knew I'd be out for the season, I didn't know whether I'd want to keep coming to practice. But when I came down on Tuesday, I knew how much I would miss...
...Brad Stinn. Of all people. That's what his teammates and coaches say. Hardest hitter on the team. Toughest competitor. Loves the game. Loves to win. Jim Callinan, the senior fullback who has played with Stinn through four years of college and four years at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, said, "The way Brad plays, you know it might have happened--he's all out, all the time...
...looked the part. Anyone might have the well-muscled, 6-2, 215-pound body, but Stinn has that big mid-western face, the wide, confident, permanent smile, the two enormous eye-teeth as big and white as business cards introducing themselves. And has there ever been a better football player name? It all makes it that much harder to leave the game he loves...
...Stinn tries to put the best face on his absence, and he tries to diminish his importance to the team, talking up his successors. But you can tell he knows the real story--how badly he will be missed. "That's the thing I feel worst about--the experience factor," he says...
...that he means he was one of only four returning starters on the best unit in last year's Ivy League. "It's tough, tough, tough, tough, to lose a player like him," said coach Joe Restic, giving his favorite adjective a workout. Stinn may have been the key performer on the team, and certainly seemed destined for All-Ivy recognition. As a starter last year, he had 58 tackles--including 11 against William and Mary--the most for any returning player. Rumored to have been one of the top candidates for captain this year, Stinn also served...