Sentences with phrase «while football helmets»

While football helmets have improved over the years, their design hasn't been significantly altered since the 1960s, when full face masks were added.

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While Michigan has one of the most iconic helmets in all of football, several graphic designers have made some tweaks to the...

While unveiling the new Michigan football — Nike gear for next season, a Wolverine spokesperson said that a matte helmet will be worn this fall.

«While these changes mostly involve reorganization, the committee is confident that the rules now place a stronger emphasis on flagrant acts and illegal helmet contact,» said Bob Colgate, NFHS assistant director and liaison to the Football Rules Committee.

While only a limited number of helmets of Newcastle football players were fitted with Shockbox sensors for the 2012 season we filmed for «The Smartest Team,» the results, admittedly from a very small sample size, were very encouraging:

However, researchers who have collected impact sensor data for years, including Dr. Stefan Duma, who runs the biomedical engineering department at Virginia Tech and helped develop the STAR helmet rating system, were quick to say that the league was being too careful, and that, while not perfect, even with a 10 to 20 percent error rate, the sensors were valuable and give reasonable data that is useful, not only in football, but in analyzing head hits in sports like soccer and hockey.

While helmets do not prevent concussions, replacing helmets that have reached or exceeded their useful life is an important step to keep young football players safe, especially as the replacement program will be combined with a strong educational campaign on concussion awareness, proper helmet fitting, and instruction on proper tackling, and receipt of the new helmets will be conditioned on coaches completing USA Football's basic coachingfootball players safe, especially as the replacement program will be combined with a strong educational campaign on concussion awareness, proper helmet fitting, and instruction on proper tackling, and receipt of the new helmets will be conditioned on coaches completing USA Football's basic coachingFootball's basic coaching course.

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.

Coaches, consumers and parents should be aware that while the STAR rating system suggests the purchase of specific football helmets, scientific evidence does not support the claim that a particular helmet brand or model is more effective in reducing the occurrence of concussive events.

Coaches, consumers and parents should be aware that while the STAR rating system suggests the purchase of specific football helmets, scientific evidence does not support the claim that a particular helmet brand or model is mor

Jeffery Miller, Senior Vice President for Player Health and Safety Policy at the National Football League, testified in Washington that while «football has earned a vital place in the rhythm of American life,» helmets for players have not caught up to what is necessary to protect Football League, testified in Washington that while «football has earned a vital place in the rhythm of American life,» helmets for players have not caught up to what is necessary to protect football has earned a vital place in the rhythm of American life,» helmets for players have not caught up to what is necessary to protect players.

So, while they were bashing him on TV, football players don't do so well, it struck me, «I said wait a minute, wait a minute — isn't football the game where they wear helmets and run around?

Tom DeGraw talks matter - of - factly about the 11 - year - old boy who threw a helmet at him while he refereed a football game, and the time a fight broke out at another game and police officers charged the field with clubs drawn to separate angry parents.