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Injury-related deaths in football decrease
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Five high school football players died from injuries sustained while playing during the 1996 season, one less than the year before, according to a University of North Carolina study.
The Associated Press
Twelve other players, including one professional and one college player, also died while playing but from heart failure and other medical conditions, the study reported.
Mueller said four of the five high school deaths were due to brain injuries. The other death due to an injury came from a blow to the chest.
The report also found that nine people playing football were permanently paralyzed last year, including six in high school and three in college.
"Coaches need to remind players continually to keep the head out of football," Mueller said. "No player should make initial contact with his head when blocking and tackling."
"We found two heatstroke deaths in 1996," said Frederick Mueller, chairman of the physical education, exercise and sport science department at UNC-Chapel Hill. "During the 1995 season, there were four heat stroke deaths, which made no sense since proper precautions should prevent all such deaths."
No names, ages or hometowns of those killed were released in the study, which is compiled from newspaper stories and information from various associations with the help of 150 volunteers who monitor sports accidents in their states.
Mueller attributed the drop in injury-caused deaths to rules adopted in the 1970s which prohibited using the head as a first point of contact during blocking and tackling.
Shortened practices and non-contact drills where players don't wear helmets also help prevent heatstroke and reduce accidents, he said.
The annual survey began in 1933.
Surprising success for athlete
Student excels in both football and baseball for UMass
Associated Press
AMHERST, Mass. — Doug Clark is lucky he didn't get laughed right out of the baseball office that day in December 1995.
His baseball coach is, too.
His baseball coach, Clark marched into coach Mike Stone's office a complete stranger. He introduced himself, looked Stone in the eye, and said he'd really like to play for the Division I, Atlantic 10-champion team at the University of Massachusetts.
Oh, by the way, he had never played baseball in high school — just football and tennis. He came to Massachusetts on a football scholarship. But he had a notion he'd be pretty good at baseball.
"I use a lot of the same things in baseball as football," he said before a football practice earlier this week. "It's mental toughness."
In 15 years of coaching, Stone has never fielded anyone else who did not play baseball in high school. But
Stone thought he saw the hint of something in Clark — an extraordinary self-assurance.
"Just the way he asked was different from most kids," Stone said recently. "Some kids act more like ballplayers than others."
Clark not only made the team, but was picked by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 20th round of the draft earlier this year. He has returned to Massachusetts, though, to finish his fourth year, showcase himself to the major leagues and perfect his Bo Jackson/Deion Sanders imitation — excelling at both football and baseball
Clark, 21, was practicing this week to start once again at wide receiver for Massachusetts' Division I-AA football program. Long relying on the run, the offense is trying to develop a more potent passing game, largely with the help of the 6-foot-2, 198-pound Clark. He runs 40 yards in 4.5 seconds and led the team last fall with 20 receptions for 379 yards.
Last spring, he hit a team-best. 415, batting fourth or fifth, with 11 homers and 60 RBI. With Clark in center field, the team went 35-12 and captured its fourth straight A-10 crown.
"I'd like to have 10 of him and put him all over the place," football coach Mike Hodges said.
Clark's baseball came along more slowly. He played only a single season with American Legion in high school. Then, when he was forced to sit out his freshman year in football as a redshirt to give him more time to develop, his competitive juices began to flow along another path. He played in a regional baseball league that summer and then pitched himself to Stone.
At first, his inexperience showed — but so did his raw ability.
Just two years later, major league baseball has recognized his ability, and he hopes to fashion a career there. Four of Stone's players have done so, including Ron Vollone, the Milwaukee reliever who once played tight end for Massachusetts.
A biology major, Clark says he wants to complete his degree so he can compete elsewhere if pro baseball falls through. Some friends and would-be mentors tell Clark that he's risking a football injury that could ruin a major league career.
"They don't understand the thirst I have for football. You have to quench that thirst," he said.
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