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This is a list of association footballers who died due to football-related incidents.. The primary causes of on-field deaths have evolved over time. Improvements in infection control and emergency surgery since the early days of organised soccer have mostly eliminated the fatal complications that were once common after routine sporting injuries.
Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970). Cal Poly Mustangs football team: 16 players and 6 others died in an airplane crash (1960).
This is a list of Australian rules football players who have died either during their respective playing careers or due to career-ending injury or disease incurred during their playing career. It includes both on-field and off-field deaths.
Ryan Craddock told NBC’s Sam Brock that his 13-year-old son, Cohen, had only been playing organized football for a year when he died due to a head injury sustained during practice.
An Alabama high school football player, who died after being critically injured during a game, was remembered at a Monday memorial service as a caring and talented athlete who accomplished much in ...
At least three student football players in the US have died since the start of the new school year. Alabama teen Semaj Wilkins died August 13 after a medical emergency during football practice at ...
As more parents (including some NFL players) decide not to let their children play football, [10] [11] it remains to be seen whether football will eventually face a significant decline in popularity [12] like boxing, which fell from prominence as the brain damage suffered by ex-boxers drew more public attention. [13]
Last year, the center reported, 16 football players ranging from youth leagues to the collegiate level died for reasons including traumatic injuries on the field to activities not related to football.