At Least Six High School Football Players Have Died From Head And Neck Injuries In 2013

BuzzFeed - It’s been a terrible fall for youth football. The vigil service for De'Antre Turman. Curtis Compton / Atlanta Journal-Constitution / AP We all know that football, from the pros on down, has a brain-injury problem. But the number of teenagers who have died playing youth football in 2013 is still shocking.On Monday afternoon, 17-year-old Charles Youvella of Hopi High School in Arizona died of a traumatic brain injury suffered during his team's loss two days earlier in the state playoffs. Youvella's team lost 60-6, and he wound up recording his team's lone touchdown. Minutes later, Youvella (whose father was his school's athletic director) was tackled on what was, by all accounts, a "normal"-looking play and suffered a brain injury that ultimately took his life. View Video › Via azcentral.com Thursday, one day after Charles Youvella's vigil, ESPN's Outside the Lines dropped a bombshell report featuring hard data on the decline of participation