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Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970). Cal Poly Mustangs football team: 16 players and 6 others died in an airplane crash (1960).
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in March 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
This is a list of people who died in the last 5 days with an article at the English Wikipedia. For people without an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths (red links). Generally updated at least daily, last time: 15:23, 28 February 2025 (UTC).
Name Age League Cause of death Date of death Ref(s) Vladimir Pettay: 38 Russian Premier League: plane crash: June 20, 2011 [4] Richard Nieuwenhuizen: 41 Royal Dutch Football Association: assaulted by players December 2, 2012 [5] Ricardo Portillo: 46 Liga Continental de Futbol (amateur, Salt Lake City, United States) assault by player May 4 ...
In comparison, a 2018 BU study of the general population found one CTE case in 164 autopsies, and that one person with CTE had played college football. [1] The NFL acknowledged a link between playing American football and being diagnosed with CTE in 2016, after denying such a link for over a decade and arguing that players' symptoms had other ...
Nationality Person Sport Age Cause of death Ref. Brazil: Cléber Eduardo Arado: Association football: 48 COVID-19 [10] Indonesia: Alex Asmasoebrata: Auto racing: 69 Unknown [11] Spain: Miquel Ferrer: Association football: 89 Unknown [12] Canada: Rob Flockhart: Ice hockey: 64 Heart attack [13] South Africa: Ryder Mofokeng: Association football ...
List of American football players who died during their careers; List of association footballers who died after on-field incidents; List of athletics competitors who died during their careers. List of marathon fatalities; List of Australian rules footballers who died during their careers; List of basketball players who died during their careers ...
Franco Dok Harris (March 7, 1950 – December 20, 2022) was an American professional football player who was a fullback for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Pittsburgh Steelers. [1] He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions and was selected by the Steelers in the first round of the 1972 NFL ...