Looking for "Super Trainers" in the Sports World

[The Indomitable DrugS]

From what I've now learned - Alvin Roy would probably top the Geico Caveman in New England as the NFL's greatest "Super Trainer"

Alvin Roy's start as a trainer came not with a team .. but with a high school sophomore who he trained at his house.

In 1954 in Baton Rouge, Billy Cannon (at that time, only a 168 lb sophomore high school football star) began his strength conditioning at Alvin Roy's studio.

"By the time Billy entered LSU two years later, he was up to 193. By his sophomore year when he began varsity play, he weighed 200 and pressed 270, which was only 12 pounds off the Olympic record at the time

Eventually - the LSU coaches were so impressed - that they decided to make Alvin Roy the first football strength and conditioning coach in history in 1958. Now Roy worked with all the LSU players and not just Cannon.

LSU had failed to have a winning season for four straight years from '54 to '57 .. but under Alvin Roy - they went 11-0 in 1958 and won the national championship.

Billy Cannon - Roy's first client and a white running back - won the Heisman Trophy and was the first pick in the NFL draft.

Alvin Roy's first year in the NFL was 1963. He was hired as the strength and conditioning coach by the San Diego Chargers. He brought steroids into the NFL and made it required for all Chargers players to use them.

The 1962 Chargers had a 4-10 record. In Roy's first year, under his Steroid program, the Chargers went 11-3 in the regular season. They beat the Boston Patroits 51-10 in the championship game .. gaining over 600 yards. It is still the only championship ever won by a San Diego sports team in city history.

Roy won three Super Bowls with the Chiefs and Raiders as well. He died at age 59.