Note: The following appears in the NC State football gameday program. My mom and dad came to the Upstate for the 1992 ACC Baseball Tournament in nearby Greenville. On the way from the parking lot to the stadium on Saturday afternoon, my dad tripped on a rock, fell on his left arm and broke it. What a way to start a vacation. But fortunately, the Clemson Family came to the rescue. When my dad made it to the stadium in some real pain, I sought out Clemson Athletic Trainer Fred Hoover. “Doc” immediately ran some arm movement tests he had probably done on 1,000 Clemson student-athletes over his 30 years (at the time) in charge of the athletic training needs. He said we needed an X-ray and guided us through the entire process. That process included going to see Dr. Larry Bowman, who was early in his Clemson career as the team orthopedic surgeon. Both men could not have been nicer to my dad, who had never broken a bone in his body. Hoover checked on my dad the entire week he was at Clems
Note: The following appears in the Furman football gameday program.It all started for Danny Poole when he received a Cramer First Aid Notebook Course just as he was finishing ninth grade, his final year of junior high school before attending West Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte.Poole had played sports through junior high school, but when he became a sophomore in high school, he realized he had a deep interest in athletic training. The more he read, the more he became interested.“After I took that course, I went to a few clinics,” said Poole. “I went to one in Greensboro that was in association with the North Carolina High School Coaches Association and got even more interested in it.”It just so happened that one of the guest lecturers at that Greensboro Clinic was Clemson Athletic Trainer Fred Hoover, a legend in the profession who would go on to be Poole’s boss a decade later.During one of the first days of his high school career, he sought out the head football coach a
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