Word: player
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Jimmy Archey plays the best trombone in the east at Jimmy Ryan's, on the once famous segment of 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth. Pops Foster was already the best bass player when your father was half your age. Wild Bill Davison leads the band at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street emporium, along with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder. Ralph Sutton plays between sets. Nick's features Pee Wee Erwin's enthusiastic group at 10th and Seventh...
According to Fadden, the basic job of the trainer is to carry out treatments after the doctor diagnoses the injuries. But once injuries have healed, the trainer must see to it that a player goes through the proper corrective exercises to compensate for lost flesh and weakened muscles. Naturally, throughout the whole season he must watch over the condition and equipment of his men. The trainer also acts as a buffer between the coach and the doctor, who has the final say on whether or not a boy is ready to play...
Beyond the routine tapings and dressings, Fadden looks out for player's morale; he will discrectly try to help a man out of academic or financial difficulty...
Jack Fadden has been around. He got started in athletics as a football and baseball player at Bridgeton (Maine) Academy, then took a two-year course in physical education at Posse Nisson in Boston. While Fadden was working in City Hospital, the head Harvard surgeon asked him to help in the College's medical room. So Jack did x-rays and physiotherapy there and kept at it during the two years he attended Harvard. After that, he went into the automobile business with ex-Governor Fuller, spent a year as trainer at Amherst (where he met Jordan), and then took...
...Academy Tunner got adequate grades fairly easily, cut his share of capers. There were frequent poker sessions-"He's the world's worst poker player and crap shooter," says his brother-in-law-and there was one glorious weekend in New York when he met four girls from George White's Scandals. Attracted by Tunner's ' strong-jawed, straight-nosed good looks, all four of the girls took to visiting him, in bevy, at West Point, a development which permanently endeared Tunner to his Academy friends...