Aug 15, 2009 — See The Associated Press
Some schools in Ohio are using a low-tech solution to a high-risk problem — football players overheating during hot two-a-day preseason practices. ...Since 1995, 39 football players, including 29 high school players, have died from heat stroke in the United States, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center director Dr. Frederick Mueller said the vast majority of those deaths were preventable. Research shows that ice-water baths are a good way to prevent them.
