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A training book records the type of exercise which Dean and his team mates undertook in the 1930s. The players ran, sprinted, skipped and boxed - they played very little practice football. Elsewhere in the book, Harry Cooke, the trainer writes that Dean's height was 5 foot 9 inches - other sources claim he was 5 foot 10 1/2 inches.