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A student in New York state who died on Wednesday became the third US high school footballer to die playing the game in the last week.
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Two 17-year-old players collapsed and died after a warm-up and a game in North Carolina and Alabama on Friday.
In the past decade, 12 high school athletes died on average every year playing football.
A recent study by the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina found that over the past decade, three died directly due to "participation in the fundamental skills of football" - for example through spine fracture or head injury.
Another nine on average died from indirect causes due to the exertion, such as from heat stroke or an undiagnosed medical condition, or from complications due to a non-fatal injury.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29463130
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)JI7
(89,250 posts)JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)For example, tackles could involve actual "tackling" rather than "hitting."
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Intense physical exertion is not without it's consequences, particularly when there is an underlying genetic risk.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)OR we could focus on my pet peeve and that is permitting 16 year old new drivers to use the freeway. 1000's of deaths could be avoided by simply keeping new drivers off the freeway, gain some driving spatial-speed experience, even if only for a year.
yellowwoodII
(616 posts)Three high school football players died in a week. This post only got six replies? Three dead cats would get more response. This is sad.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Whether they are playing an organized sport or playing with friends in a local park, kids get hurt. We should try and make sports as safe as it can be, but we cannot prevent every injury or every death.