Sentences with phrase «school football players suffered»

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It wasn't until two years later that researchers at Purdue stumbled upon, literally, evidence that high school football players who had not been diagnosed with concussion neverless suffered similar short - term neurocognitive impairment from the cumulative effects of RHI.

It seems increasingly obvious that professional football players and the owners for whom they butt heads every Sunday and Monday (and occasional Thursdays and Saturdays) for money simply can't be counted on to set the right example for the tens of thousands of youth and high school football players who suffer concussions every season, far too many of which, like Morey's, never get reported to the coach, the athletic trainer (if there is one), or even their teammates, friends or parents.

It features Doug Casa and includes some video from a fantastic PBS Frontline documentary that aired a while back which focused on the fate of four high school football players in Arkansas who suffered heat stroke during pre-season practice in the summer of 2010.

The death last week of Damon Janes, the 16 - year - old Brocton high school football player who suffered a devastating on - field head injury, has raised more questions than answers.

High school players suffer concussions at a rate of 11.2 concussions per 10,000 athletic exposures — a practice or a game — as opposed to 6.3 for college football players, according to a study released by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.

With spring practices underway, football players are 11 times more likely to suffer heat illnesses than all other high school sports combined

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.