another football death

[DrLeftover]

Tom Cutinella, Shoreham-Wading River HS football player, died after 'freak accident,' superintendent says
Updated October 2, 2014 12:04 PM

Junior Tom Cutinella, 16, a guard and linebacker on the Shoreham-Wading River High School's football team, died Wednesday night, Oct. 1, 2014, after collapsing during a game in Elwood earlier in the day, authorities said. Cutinella was pronounced dead at Huntington Hospital after sustaining a head injury in a varsity game against John Glenn High School, part of the Elwood school district, police and school officials said.

The Shoreham-Wading River High School football player who died after colliding with another player in a game Wednesday was an amazing student with a tremendous family, school officials said Thursday as the community tried to come to grips with a "freak accident."

The family of junior Tom Cutinella, 16, a linebacker and guard, "exemplified the values and morals that were instilled in him," said the school's principal, Daniel Holtzman, at a news conference

http://www.newsday.com/sports/high-school/football/tom-cutinella-shoreham-wading-river-hs-football-player-mourned-day-after-sustaining-fatal-injury-1.9457725

 

[Jazzy]

What an absolute tragedy. I feel so sorry for this family, his teammates and the coaching staff. To have your life cut short at the expense of playing a sport is just numbing. I just hope this is a "freak accident" and not some condition that should have been detected by a clearance examination.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Sad stuff. RIP.

 

[DrLeftover]

It was the third high school death that week.

The common cause was: Football.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Surprised they haven't banned it yet. *Thinks about that sharing food at school article that was posted here recently*

 

[DrLeftover]

Sorry.

Forgot the link about the three deaths.

A student in New York state who died on Wednesday became the third US high school footballer to die playing the game in the last week.

Tom Cutinella, 16, died after colliding with an opponent, Shoreham-Wading River superintendent Steven Cohen said.

Two 17-year-old players collapsed and died after a warm-up and a game in North Carolina and Alabama on Friday.

In the past decade, 12 high school athletes died on average every year playing football.

A recent study by the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina found that over the past decade, three died directly due to "participation in the fundamental skills of football" - for example through spine fracture or head injury.

Another nine on average died from indirect causes due to the exertion, such as from heat stroke or an undiagnosed medical condition, or from complications due to a non-fatal injury.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29463130