CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello October 26, 2015 13:54:00
School football related death this year. sadly, that's below the yearly death of 12 football deaths a year. while smith did die of a hit to the head, the leading cause of football deaths is cardiac arrest. a statistic when it comes to high school football, 37% employ a full-time athletic trainer. more than half of schools have part-time trainers while three-quarters have access to trainers at games. athletic trainers so important because in many instances, quickly diagnosing an injury a player suffers on the field can save a life. >> going back to andre for a second. he died of blunt-force tra...