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re: Third high school football player dies in a week
Posted on 10/3/14 at 12:58 pm to UMRealist
Posted on 10/3/14 at 12:58 pm to UMRealist
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Football is reaching a crisis point. People are literally dying for someone else's entertainment. As big a cash cow as it is, I don't see how it continue on as is in this day and age. There is going to be a major revolution in the sport.
Not the first time this has happened. Teddy Roosevelt tried HARD to make tackle football illegal.
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Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:19 pm to Pavoloco83
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Football is reaching a crisis point. People are literally dying for someone else's entertainment. As big a cash cow as it is, I don't see how it continue on as is in this day and age. There is going to be a major revolution in the sport
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Not the first time this has happened. Teddy Roosevelt tried HARD to make tackle football illegal
yup. 19 players died in 1905 and crippling injuries were regular.
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Finally, on December 28, 1905, 62 schools met in New York City to discuss rule changes to make the game safer. As a result of this meeting, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, later named the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), was formed. One rule change introduced in 1906, devised to open up the game and reduce injury, was the introduction of the legal forward pass
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