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Survivor Tartaglia taking toughness to Marple Newtown gridiron

Posted On: Monday, August 20, 2018
By: ldevlin

NEWTOWN SQUARE >> The last thing Marple Newtown linebacker Tom Tobin wanted to do was run wind sprints. No football player likes to run them, especially in training camp. The drill is usually done at the end of practice when players are hot, tired and sore. All they want to do is get out of the sun and relax.

Sprints, though, are a necessary evil, part of the conditioning program designed to have players in peak fitness for the season. So Tobin, a senior, begrudgingly ran along with his teammates. As he did, he looked over and saw teammate Sal Tartaglia Jr. doing crunches on the turf at Harry R. Harvey Field.

Less than four months earlier, Tartaglia was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a blood-borne cancer that affects the body’s lymphatic system. The 5-10, 222-pound senior guard/linebacker completed his last round of chemotherapy treatments in July and had just been cleared to resume playing football.

Tartaglia, though, was still a little weak from the treatments, so he was exempted from sprints. But that didn’t mean he was going to take it easy while his teammates languished in the blazing sun. And so while his teammates ran, Tartaglia got in a little work on his core. Tobin took one look at Tartaglia and run a little harder.

“I was like, wow,” Tobin said. “He’s amazing.”

Tobin wasn’t the only one moved by Tartaglia’s work ethic.

“Sal motivates us,” added senior All-Delco running back Marlon Weathers, the leading rusher in the county as a junior. “Seeing one of our brothers go down like that and then overcome it, is really inspirational. We tip our hats to him. We do it for him. Yeah, it’s hot out here, but we’re not going to stop because he’s out there with us, doing everything we’re doing, so why can’t we do it? There are no excuses.”

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