[Magdalen] Head injuries

[Roger Stokes]

On 05/11/2015 00:26, James Handsfield wrote:
> So far this year, seven high school athletes have died due to head injuries in football games (according to ABC News).  This says nothing about the injuries to college and professional athletes.
>
> I have a proposal to change a rule to deal with this - if a player is judged to “spear” (first contact is with the head) an opponent, take a rule from the soccer Laws of the Game - they are removed from the game AND THE TEAM IS NOT PERMITTED TO REPLACE THAT PLAYER during the game.  Maybe also a two game suspension would be useful.

If a player is sent off in soccer then a suspension also follows unless 
the player wins an appeal that the sending off was not fully justified.

Roger