Cam’ron Matthews felt woozy. That’s what he told his football teammates in a huddle Friday night, shortly before the 16-year-old junior collapsed on the sidelines at Alto High School in East Texas. A day later, he died at a nearby hospital.
Since the start of the high school football season, five high school football players have died following on-field injuries, matching both last year’s total and the average number of football-related deaths since the late 1990s, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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