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This is a list of association footballers who died due to football-related incidents. The primary causes of on-field deaths have evolved over time. Improvements in infection control and emergency surgery since the early days of organised soccer have mostly eliminated the fatal complications that were once common after routine sporting injuries.
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).
For many years it was known as Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (QEGS) for Boys, after the Queen had issued Letters Patent authorising a Free Grammar School in Mansfield. Originally situated in buildings at Church Side, close to St Peter's Church in Mansfield town centre, construction of the present buildings started in 1875 with the school ...
College football player Medrick Burnett Jr. is confirmed to have died after being injured in a game last month. He was 20 years old. The Alabama athlete was hospitalized after being severely hurt ...
Other notable players coached by Morrison included Harold Green, who spent several years with the Cincinnati Bengals in the NFL, current Gamecock football radio broadcaster Todd Ellis, who is the all-time passing leader at South Carolina, and Robert Brooks, who was part of the Green Bay Packers 1997 Super Bowl Championship team.
The Pulaski County High School football player who died Monday after sustaining a head injury in a game on March 31 attended pre-school in Lexington, his former teacher said.
Kostadinos Alexander "Kosta" Karageorge (July 10, 1992 – November 30, 2014) was an American football player and collegiate wrestler at Ohio State University. Karageorge's death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound led to a controversy over undiagnosed concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes. Karageorge's initial autopsy ...
A 16-year-old high school football player in Alabama died after suffering a critical brain injury during a game on Friday night, according to multiple officials.