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High school football player dies after making a tackle
Posted on 8/18/13 at 2:12 am
Posted on 8/18/13 at 2:12 am
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Atlanta (CNN) - A suburban Atlanta high school football player has died from injuries suffered while making a tackle during a scrimmage game, according to medical examiners. Deantre Turman's death came Friday after he made a tackle during a pre-season game, said Mike Alsip, a forensic investigator for the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office. The teenager broke his neck, Alsip said. The accident happened at a school in the Atlanta suburb of College Park, Georgia, according to CNN affiliate WSB. His coach, Glenn Ford, told the station that Turman -- a cornerback known to friends as "Tre Tre" -- went immediately limp and unresponsive after the play. Coaches and others tried without success to revive him during what Ford said was a 15-minute wait for an ambulance. The young athlete was pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour and 15 minutes after the accident, according to Alsip. Turman, 16, was popular and well-regarded, Ford said. "People knew Tre Tre. They knew and loved him," Ford said, according to the station. Tarsha Keller, the woman who raised Turman since his mother died when he was just 4 years old, told WSB that the teen died doing what he loved. "Being the competitor and playing different sports made him happy," Keller told WSB. Deaths from high school football are exceedingly rare. Over the last 10 years, an average of fewer than three boys a year have died from on-field injuries playing high school football, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina. No players died in 2012, the first time that had happened since 1994, according to the center.
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Sad story
Posted on 8/18/13 at 2:18 am to DBeaux225
sad. prayers to his family. had a scholarship offer from Kentucky.
Posted on 8/18/13 at 2:18 am to DBeaux225
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Ford said was a 15-minute wait for an ambulance
Damn
RIP
Posted on 8/18/13 at 2:45 am to DBeaux225
RIP to this kid.
Now wonder how many new rule changes they are going to try and make now
Now wonder how many new rule changes they are going to try and make now
Posted on 8/18/13 at 4:07 am to DBeaux225
Football as we know it will not exist in 20 years. There will either be radical rule changes, or it will be like boxing, a disreputable fringe sport played by people without other options.
This post was edited on 8/18/13 at 4:11 am
Posted on 8/20/13 at 6:20 am to DBeaux225
Damn. Prayers to his family.
If any jr. High or high school players are reading this, remember, keep your head up, see what you hit. Try to put your face mask dead in the middle of their numbers.
If any jr. High or high school players are reading this, remember, keep your head up, see what you hit. Try to put your face mask dead in the middle of their numbers.
Posted on 8/20/13 at 6:35 am to DBeaux225
Holy shite, that's sad.
Mother fricker
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15-minute wait for an ambulance.
Mother fricker
Posted on 8/20/13 at 8:43 am to DBeaux225
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Coaches and others tried without success to revive him during what Ford said was a 15-minute wait for an ambulance.
I wonder if that long arse wait had any impact on the outcome. Must have seemed like an eternity.
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