No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis
(Part of the Studies in Social Medicine Series)
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From the untimely deaths of young athletes to chronic disease among retired players, roiling debates over tackle football have profound implications for more than one million American boys--some as young as five years old--who play the sport every year. In this book, Kathleen Bachynski offers the first history of youth tackle football and debates over its safety. In the postwar United States, high school football was celebrated as a "moral" sport...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469653702
ISBN13:9781469653709
Release Date:November 2019
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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