High
School Football Players Show Brain Changes after One Season.
Not exact matches
The makeup reference was to
show that even in rural Texas, a high
school football player was accepted for being different.
Combined with data
showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth
players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth
players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth
player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high
school or college
player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific
football helmets.
Based on data
showing that, while youth
football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high
school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older
players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»
Through candid interviews of parents,
players, the Newcastle High athletic trainer and team doctor, equipment manufacturers, and leading concussion experts, «The Smartest Team» acknowledges the serious challenge concussions pose while
showing in easy - to - understand terms how high
school football programs can improve
player safety by:
«Will Smith of Utica has
shown greatness as an outstanding
football player with the World Champion New Orleans Saints of the NFL, building on a career that began here in Oneida County during his days at Utica's Proctor High
School,» Picente said in a proclamation naming April 3rd as Will Smith Day in Oneida County.
The more recent figures
show 79 % of
football players overall suffered from CTE, when including people who had played high
school, college and semi-professional
football.
I should point out that one of my main criticisms of that film comes from his choice to make his high
school football games too action - oriented to believe,
showing feats from amateur teenage
players that would rival the most exciting plays in NFL history.