Football safety study notes decline in 1953 fatalities
The American Football Coaches Association and NCAA report 1953 football season had 13 direct and six indirect fatalities, down 26 percent from the long term average. The piece urges cautious participation, medical clearance, proper lifting of injured players, improved tackling technique, and proper headgear use.
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
Tackle Football Safety Recommendations Rise
Unnecessary roughness is linked to injuries and possible fatalities. Coaches urge officials to enforce stricter supervision. Medical leaders favor limiting tackle football to senior high and older groups, with junior high and elementary districts moving toward touch football and reduced interscholastic competition.
New nerve gas can kill you in minutes
The Army disclosed a field manual on Defense Against CBR Attack describing powerful nerve gases that paralyze and kill quickly by damaging the central nervous system. In low concentrations they cause runny nose chest tightness and dimmed vision with pupils contracting and blurring sight for one to three days.
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Army-Air Force
First bachelor NCO quarters opened at Fort Campbell
Fort Campbell Kentucky opens the first bachelor noncommissioned officers quarters in the United States Army. The new housing for top sergeants aligns with Gen Wayne Smiths policy to raise the prestige of the NCO corps, the backbone of the Army.
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