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REPLY: Varsity game a number of years ago. QB gets sacked and doesn't get up. Trainer, docs come out. Kid's neck hurts. Doc says don't move him. Calls ambulance. They come and finally get him on the backboard still in helmet of course. Game resumes about an hour later. Saw the kid later on in the season wearing one of those contraptions that mount on the shoulders and then screw into the head. Seems he ended up breaking a cervical vertebrae.
Another that didn't happen to me personally, but rather to a good friend who was a referee in a varsity game. Kid collapses on the field. Trainer and doc come out...call the EMTs over. Rush him to the hospital where he's pronounced DOA. Can't recall exactly the cause, but I did watch the play on the news that evening. Kid was running behind his defensive line at the snap. Slight bump into two guys engaged in blocking and collapses. No violent contact...just a relatively minor bump. My friend didn't get over that one for quite a while.
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Bob M.
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