High school football player dies in Mississippi

[tawadi]

Source: Associated Press

High school football player dies in Mississippi

(AP) – 11 hours ago

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi Gulf Coast high school football player died Friday night after collapsing on the field during a game, authorities said.

D'Iberville High School football player Latrell "Fred" Dunbar was pronounced dead at 9:50 p.m. Friday at Ocean Springs Hospital, Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus told The Sun Herald.

WLOX-TV reported Dunbar was given CPR on the field before medics arrived. It was not immediately clear what caused his death.

D'Iberville coach Buddy Singleton told The Clarion-Ledger that Dunbar collapsed during the third quarter while returning to the huddle after a play. Dunbar, a junior running back, did not carry the ball on the play.

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This is so sad. I hate to see someone's life end, before it really even begins, over a football game.

[Odin2005]

1. Football is far to violent to be a school sport.

Too bad high school football is almost a religion is some places.

[Vidar]

2. Religion--Human sacrifice. It fits.

[FLPanhandle]

4. No it's not.

Look up the injury statistics. Cheerleading, Basketball, Cross Country running all have higher injury rates than football along with other sports.

I guess you think all sports should be banned? Maybe limit the kids to wii sports or chess?

[Tartiflette]

7. Your comment is not correct

Rates are highest in football, at both high school and collegiate level:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5538a1.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1941297/

[FLPanhandle]

11. That disagrees with other studies

http://www.livescience.com/803-dangerous-sports-america.html

Many moms might worry about their kids getting hurt playing football, but a new study shows that playing basketball and riding bicycles sent more Americans to the emergency room in 2005.

More than half a million people suffered basketball-related injuries last year, compared to 485,000 hurt on bikes and 418,000 injured playing football.

Trampolines bounced 108,000 U.S. residents into the hospital. And believe it or not, some 47,000 people managed to get hurt playing golf.

The Top 15:

Basketball: 512,213
Bicycling: 485,669
Football: 418,260
Soccer: 174,686
Baseball: 155,898
Skateboards: 112,544
Trampolines: 108,029
Softball: 106,884
Swimming/Diving: 82,354
Horseback riding: 73,576
Weightlifting: 65,716
Volleyball: 52,091
Golf: 47,360
Roller skating: 35,003
Wrestling: 33,734

[FLPanhandle]

12. Interesting tidbit on cheerleading injuries

Which typically haven't been tracked in the "sports injuries" category...

Most Dangerous High School and College Sport

There are more head and spinal injuries from cheerleading than from all other high school and college sports combined (New York Times).

According to abcnews.go.com, there are about 16,000 serious injuries from cheerleaders performing stunts and tumbles. Even though most common injuries are strains and sprains (52% of injuries), cheerleading injuries extend beyond sprains to include concussions, fractures, and more.

According to Pediatrics, the number of cheerleaders between the ages of 5 and 18 visiting emergency rooms increased 110% in a twelve-year period (from 1990 to 2002).

[enlightenment]

5. It wouldn't surprise me if it was heat-related

or an undiagnosed heart condition exacerbated by physical activity.

Had he been a member of the marching band, either or both of those things could have had the same result.

I wish his family peace.

[tawadi]

6. It wouldn't surprise me if it was heart related

Cardiovascular screening could prevent some of these deaths.

[Hawaii Hiker]

14. Could have been something like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

that can strike a young athlete and cause death....Something like HCM would be detectable on an echocardiogram, but that test probably isn't done often enough on young athletes, as most assume teens and people in their 20's won't have heart related problems....

[MineralMan]

10. Driving automobiles is far more dangerous. How many football-related

deaths do you suppose there are among high school players? How many automobile deaths? Perspective is important.

[Occulus]

18. It's dangeous enough that schools are offering limited heart screenings in this area

SW MI. They are screening high school athletes for precisely the sorts of heart-related defects and conditions that cause deaths among young athletes. It's not a requirement to play yet, but I don't believe that's very far off.

Human life is irreplaceable. There's no "perspective" involved.

[bluedigger]

3. He was a kid playing a game that he enjoyed, presumably.

We have no idea what caused his death at this point. Would it be less or more tragic if he collapsed while at his studies or playing a musical instrument? Too young, in any case. RIP.

[rapmanej]

17. I think the larger point is

that if the cause of death is due to heat/lack of water, then it is more tragic because it could have been easily prevented with proper rests/water.

[RebelOne]

8. There have been two high school football players

here in Georgia that died while in training this summer. I think one was heat related and the other was heart related.

[MineralMan]

9. Very sad thing for his family and friends.

I'm not sure what football had to do with it, though. Until an autopsy determines the cause of death, it is not known.

Every year many, many high-school aged youngsters die. Auto accidents are the most common cause. Football deaths are way, way down the list. It's always sad for the families and friends of the deceased. Why this young fellow died, I do not know. I can't really condemn the sport of football over his death. It was his choice to play, and there is no evidence so far that the game caused his death.

I don't think we need to knee-jerk on stories like this. There will be an autopsy. Then we may know more.

[TheDebbieDee]

13. Maybe his sudden death had NOTHING to do with football.

Maybe he had some previously unknown but potentially fatal physical defect that could have shown itself at anytime.

Maybe if he had been at home sipping and iced tea he still would have died.......who is to say?

[Nikia]

15. Unfortunately some kids have undiagnosed heart problems

I know that in my home area that a local physician was lobbying for every high school athlete to have an EKG before being allowed to participate on a sport's team. Every year a number of athletes die this way. In my home area, it was probably one every other year. A healthy teenager won't suddenly drop dead from exercise.

[Honeycombe8]

16. Could've been related to the heat. It's been extremely hot this year.

Every year, it seems, I read about a high school ball player dying due to heat. It's hot to begin with, then they're physically extremely active making it even hotter, and they have those uniforms & helmets on.