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PortCityProphet
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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/2...Missouri-School-Board-Cuts-Football.html?_r=0
As Worries Rise and Players Flee, a Missouri School Board Cuts Football
MAPLEWOOD, Mo. — Students and families at Maplewood Richmond Heights High School are looking forward to homecoming, the highlight of the autumn school calendar for decades. But for the first time, the centerpiece event will be soccer, not football.
The school board in Maplewood, a St. Louis suburb, disbanded the high school’s football team in June, even though it reached the state championship game five years ago. A decade ago, such a move would have seemed radical. But concerns are growing about football players’ safety, and soccer and other sports are gaining popularity.
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There are no precise statistics on how many schools have shut down their football programs because of safety concerns, but a number of teams have been disbanded as participation in tackle football nationwide has declined amid rising awareness of concussions and other dangers.
Despite the popularity of college and professional football, the number of male high school football players has fallen to about 1.08 million this year, a 2.4 percent decline from five years ago.
Pop Warner, the largest youth football organization, has seen larger decreases. It has also been sued by a parent of a playerwho committed suicide at 25 and was found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease linked to repeated head hits.
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Declining youth participation rates have started to worry the N.F.L. because the league’s long-term health could be affected. The league has donated tens of millions of dollars to USA Football, which has been training coaches and promoting a safe-tackling program to reassure parents.
As Worries Rise and Players Flee, a Missouri School Board Cuts Football
MAPLEWOOD, Mo. — Students and families at Maplewood Richmond Heights High School are looking forward to homecoming, the highlight of the autumn school calendar for decades. But for the first time, the centerpiece event will be soccer, not football.
The school board in Maplewood, a St. Louis suburb, disbanded the high school’s football team in June, even though it reached the state championship game five years ago. A decade ago, such a move would have seemed radical. But concerns are growing about football players’ safety, and soccer and other sports are gaining popularity.
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There are no precise statistics on how many schools have shut down their football programs because of safety concerns, but a number of teams have been disbanded as participation in tackle football nationwide has declined amid rising awareness of concussions and other dangers.
Despite the popularity of college and professional football, the number of male high school football players has fallen to about 1.08 million this year, a 2.4 percent decline from five years ago.
Pop Warner, the largest youth football organization, has seen larger decreases. It has also been sued by a parent of a playerwho committed suicide at 25 and was found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease linked to repeated head hits.
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Declining youth participation rates have started to worry the N.F.L. because the league’s long-term health could be affected. The league has donated tens of millions of dollars to USA Football, which has been training coaches and promoting a safe-tackling program to reassure parents.
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The Death of Evan Murray
Among the spectacles of our sports-entertainment complex, there are only two in which people are regularly killed — not accidentally, but directly as a result of that sport’s essential identity and, more ghoulishly, that sport’s essential public appeal. One of them is auto racing. The other is American football. Of the two, there is only one in which children are now regularly killed. That sport is not auto racing. That sport is American football. This weekend, the sport killed another child.
On Friday night, Evan Murray, a 17-year-old student at Warren Hills Regional High School in New Jersey and the quarterback of that school’s football team, died after being hit in the course of a game against Summit High School. Murray was able to walk off the field, as is regularly said during football telecasts, “under his own power.” Murray collapsed on the sideline. He was carried into an ambulance and later died. The specific cause of death was massive internal bleeding from a lacerated spleen. The general cause of death is that Evan “took a hard hit.” He got “blown up.” He got the “shyt knocked out of him.” Evan is dead because he played American football. Period.
He is not alone. He is the third American child to die from injuries suffered in an American football game this month. On September 4, Tyrell Cameron, a 16-year-old student at Franklin Parish High School in Louisiana, was killed when he “took a hit” on a punt return. On September 19, Ben Hamm, a 16-year-old student at Wesleyan Christian School in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, died after suffering an injury in a game a week earlier. Almost two years before, Damon Janes, another 16-year-old who attended Brocton High School in New York, “got blown up” on a helmet-to-helmet hit and, like Evan, walked off “under his own power,” and then he died. In between these three extracurricular-activity deaths, a JV player in Texas named Jasiel Favors was lucky. He “took a hard hit” and was left paralyzed below his waist. Recently, Jasiel was said to have some feeling in his lower body.
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According to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, which is housed at the University of North Carolina, 13 high school American football players died from injuries between 2012 and 2014.
Labadi_Mantse
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Mad disingenuous bro. Why don't u include the school's enrollment size? The school has 300 fukking kids. Not being able to field a team isn't that shocking. Come back when it's a school with 1000k plus.
theoretic
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STAN JONES
Veteran
If anything is gonna kill football its gonna be these horrible ass refs
The first 3 weeks have been a fukking flag fest
Way too many bullshyt or ticky tacky penalties
I think they have shattered the record for penalties in back to back weeks
The first 3 weeks have been a fukking flag fest
Way too many bullshyt or ticky tacky penalties
I think they have shattered the record for penalties in back to back weeks
Ain't no colleges with enrollment that high, so forget finding a high school with those numbers.
Ain't That Something
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Breh as long as there are underprivileged kids and parents looking at sports and football as an Avenue out the sports will never die. Lol at soccer gaining more popularity in the U.S.
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
But soccer is gaining more popularity every year.
Attendance goes up every year, this year is about to break last year's average attendance record.
I believe the children are our future. We teach them well then let them lead the way. We are seeing the beginning of the dip in youth football participation. Every movement starts from zero, yes?
DonKnock
KPJ Gonna Save Us
But soccer is gaining more popularity every year.
Attendance goes up every year, this year is about to break last year's average attendance record.
I believe the children are our future. We teach them well then let them lead the way. We are seeing the beginning of the dip in youth football participation. Every movement starts from zero, yes?
Latin American Population in the US is skyrocketing.