Grampy

July 30th, 2022 at 8:53 AM ^

There have been some pretty good DBs wearing #35, with Earnest Shazor, Thom Darden, and 2-sport stud Donnie Dufek terrorizing receivers crossing the middle.  Donnie brought modern (at least more modern) weight training to the Hockey locker room.  Legend has it that when he first showed up, the only weights Dan Farrell had the team using was an iron bar stuck in a wad of cement.  Donnie showed them what a properly weight trained athlete could do. *

* - Please note I didn't get this story firsthand from Donnie, whom I only know in a peripheral sense, but read it is a book somewhere, maybe John U. Bacon's "Blue Ice" history of the team (a good read, BTW)

Grampy

July 30th, 2022 at 2:08 PM ^

Danny Farrell was in his first year as Head Coach during Donnie's freshman year, so whatever they had was left over from Al Renfrew's tenure.  I'm pretty sure Al was about as old school as they get, including the quaint notion that weight training was bad for hockey players.  Can't let them get muscle-bound, eh?