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John McClamrock with his mother, Ann McClamrock as a high school American football player. Texas portal; Biography portal; American football portal; John McClamrock (March 24, 1956 – March 18, 2008 [1]) was a Dallas high school American football player who received media attention and sympathy from many Americans after an accident that left him with near-total paralysis in 1973.
Each year of playing tackle football increases a player's risk of developing CTE by 30 percent. [32] Family members and friends frequently struggle to try and provide care for former players with CTE, [ 33 ] [ 34 ] while the NFL has been criticized for not following through on its limited promises [ 35 ] and not using basic tests to identify ...
Freddie Steinmark (January 27, 1949 – June 6, 1971) was an American college football player for the University of Texas Longhorns.He inspired his teammates by his faith after his diagnosis of bone cancer and subsequent leg amputation during his junior year.
Aaron Hernandez (2017), American football player and convicted murderer, hanging in prison cell, five days after his acquittal from a separate murder charge. [562] Hernandez was posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which has led to speculation over how the condition may have affected his behavior. [563]
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Jeffrey Lawrence Alm (March 31, 1968 – December 14, 1993) was an American football defensive tackle for the Houston Oilers of the National Football League (NFL). He played four seasons with the Oilers until his suicide in 1993.
Jevan Bryce Snead (September 2, 1987 – September 21, 2019) [1] was an American professional football quarterback.He played college football at Ole Miss after Colt McCoy won the starting quarterback position over him for the Texas Longhorns football team.
After suffering from depression, former England international George Harrison died by suicide in 1939 at the age of 46. [4] [5]Agostino Di Bartolomei suffered from clinical depression after retiring from professional football, and eventually committed suicide by shooting himself in his villa in San Marco di Castellabate, on 30 May 1994, ten years to the day after his former club Roma had lost ...