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Learning From the Sadness
Learning From the Sadness
By ALAN SCHWARZ
Published: November 7, 2010
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/sports/08injuries.html
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. The man with perhaps the most gruesome job in sports
was unenviably busy. While other football fans spent the last weekend of
October watching games, the 74-year-old retiree prepared still more formal
inquiries into events that occupy him more than anyone would prefer two
high school football tragedies.
He gathered information from Web searches and e-mailed questionnaires to
the National Federation of State High School Associations. The linebacker
outside Kansas City, Kan., who collapsed from an apparent brain injury and
died the next morning. The junior-varsity defensive back from Fresno,
Calif., who was sent to a hospital and into a coma by a hit that caused
massive brain swelling.
Fred Mueller has almost singlehandedly run the National Center for
Catastrophic Injury Research at the University of North Carolina for 30
years, logging and analyzing more than 1,000 fatal, paralytic or otherwise
ghastly injuries in sports from peewees to the pros. His work has
repeatedly improved safety for young athletes by identifying patterns that
lead to changes in rules, field dimensions and more.
Professional football spent most of October wrestling with how to distill
illegal head-to-head collisions out of the sports Newtonian chaos. But
when Mueller calmly affirms with a nod from behind his desk that this
falls football catastrophic log is in fact no longer than usual, the
knowledge that it used to be worse is somewhat hollow consolation.
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