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Without helmets or shoulder pads : the American way of death in football conditioning / Irvin Muchnick.

by Muchnick, Irvin.

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ECW Press, 2023.

617.10276332 M942w

Football injuries.

Football injuries -- Patients.

Football -- Moral and ethical aspects.

9781770417502 (pbk)

165 p. ; 23 cm.

"Football’s concussion crisis is well known, with our Hall of Fame heroes behaving erratically and dying young. But did you know that kid players across the continent die every year before a single ball is snapped -- just from extreme conditioning drills directed by all-powerful coaches? And then, when the unimaginable happens, the football world simply buries the evidence, pays off victims’ families, and moves on...Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads presents the shocking stories of young men struck down by exertional heatstroke and other, often unacknowledged, causes. Taking the conversation about football and public health to a new level with investigations of the sport’s underreported worst tragedies and cover-ups it makes the case that no matter how much we enjoy America’s most popular sport at elite levels it belongs out of our public schools and off our public fields."--Publisher.

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