Johnny Mack
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John Joseph “Johnny” Mack was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on March 21, 1867. He would be a member of the famed Natick Hook and Ladder team later referred to by Grantland Rice as the "Natick Immortals."
He would be the athletic trainer for the high school teams at Clinton, Iowa from 1893 to 1896. He would work with Columbia track beginning in 1896. He would also work at the University of Maine and at a Nova Scotia athletic club. In 1901, Mack would begin working at the Mercersburg Academy. In 1905, he was hired to replace Mike Murphy at Yale. Mack would remain at Yale for the rest of his life.
In the summer of 1923, he went camping in the White Mountains with two other "Natick Immortals," Pooch Donovan and Keene Fitzpatrick. Mack would contract pneumonia on the trip and die a week later, on August 29, in Boston.
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