Injury Among College Football Players

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Earlier today I was walking along my campus, and as I glanced over I saw a crowd of football players clashing into each other. As I walked closer I heard their coach diatribe, shouting at them to hit each other harder. This got me thinking, why wouldn’t the coach want them to tackle harder; what’s the worst the can happen, they never play again from an injury? The players don’t care at all, with their toughened calloused bodies and the fact that they are too compliant and obsequious to disobey their coach, as this will affect their playing time in games. This coach obviously had an acute brain; he knew that there are barely any injuries caused by football hits. I did some research and out of the 73,000 college football players, only about 600

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