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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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