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High school football has become a public health crisis. It’s time to take action | Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva

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Six teenagers have now died while playing school football in less than three weeks .

Five of the athletes were high schoolers, the eldest only 16 , and one was a 13-year-old eighth -grade student.

The first four of these recent deaths were due to apparently heat-related causes and the latest two due to head trauma.

Football can not exist in its current state if you choose to eliminate that risk from your child’s life, says Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva .

In 1905 , 18 people died playing football, leading multiple colleges to drop the sport, Teddy Roosevelt to push for safety reforms.

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61

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English

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42

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