Sentences with phrase «youth football players»

Our program is both fun & safe and it promotes the healthy development of youth football players.

Teaching coaches about injury prevention and contact restrictions pays off, say researchers who tracked injury rates among youth football players during the 2014 season.

In a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers analyzed the incidence rates of concussion in youth football players in this age group and found a significantly higher incidence during games compared to practice sessions.

The data suggests that youth football players as young as 6 years - old get hit almost as hard, although not nearly as often, as older players, according to a surprising 2012 study.

To quantify youth football players» exposure to head impacts in practices and games over the course of a single season, the researchers outfitted helmets of 50 players on three teams in two different leagues with the HIT (Head Impact Telemetry) system, an array of helmet - mounted accelerometers (i.e. hit sensors) installed on an elastic base inside the helmet.

Beginning in the fall of 2012, the Virginia Tech and Wake Forest researchers began collecting more data on impacts among the youth football population by putting hit sensors in the helmets of over 300 youth football players from ages 6 to 18 in a program they are dubbing KIDS (Kinematics of Impact Data Set).

«Most youth football player concussions occur during games, not practice.»

A group of youth football players in Cahokia, Ill., decided as a team to kneel to protest racial injustice in America, mirroring Colin Kaepernick's original stand that got him exiled from football.

«The time has come to accelerate the culture change needed to improve the health and safety of youth football players,» said CPSC Chairman Tenenbaum.

The average cost for equipping a youth football player is around $ 558, with most of that being for a helmet (around $ 200, but costing as much as $ 350) and for shoulder pads -LRB-

But the same can not be said for high school and youth football players.

Researchers from the Center for Injury Biomechanics at Virginia Polytechnic - Wake Forest University fitted the helmets of seven youth football players, ages 6 to 9, with hit sensors.