7 middle, high school football deaths in a month prompt warnings: 'Protect your kids'
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Parents are sounding the alarm after the deaths of seven middle and high school football players in August alone due to varying injuries on the field.
"Protect your kids at all costs." "These things are incredibly preventable. We have laws in the books already." "School boards and the state are responsible for the safety of student-athletes." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
The circumstances of their deaths range from heatstroke to chest pains to head injuries.
"I refer to him as Mr. Personality, great kid, wanted everybody to like him. He just wanted to be happy," Cohen's father, Robert Craddock, told Fox News Digital of his son. "Loved sports, hunting, fishing, he was a very social person, very big into church. Just a great, great kid, I couldn't be more proud of him as a father."