Ebook: Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-or-Break Moment

Cover; Front Flap; Title Page; Copyright Information/Dedication; Contents; The Most Cherished Object Of His Life; Brains Will Always Win Over Muscle; There Shall Be No Striking Of The Runner In The Face; Mend It Or End It; It Was Like Having Christmas Sixteen Times A Year; Bell Ringer; Traumatic Brain Injury; Four Million; Are We In Philly Or Green Bay?; Over Eight Thousand Impacts; The Brain Bank; Our Minds Are Who We Are; I Couldn't Put A Number On That; The Thing About Football; Seventeen Percent; Everything I Have; Concussion Symptoms; Return To Play; Source Notes; Selected Bibliography;When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment-fourth down and inches. Coaches, players, fans, and even the president of the United States had one last chance: change football or leave the field. Football's defenders managed to move the chains. Rule changes and reforms after 1905 saved the game and cleared the way for it to become America's most popular sport. But they didn't fix everything. Today, football faces a new injury crisis as dire as 1905's. With increas.