HEALTH OF ATHLETES
A preliminary report of a survey of college athletes based on the lives of nearly 5000 youths in ten representative colleges shows a slightly better mortality rate throughout the life span than the average ,of men taken as risks by life insurance companies, states the "New York Times." An analysis of sports shows that the highest mortality is among baseball players. Crew men had the next. The rates of these two groups, moreover, have not improved in recent years. Track athletes follow. Football men show _ a consistently favourable mortality ratio. The men who played football between ISBO and 1889—all past forty-five years of age —stand above the average for all athletes.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 5
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114HEALTH OF ATHLETES Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 82, 16 October 1928, Page 5
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