A Heady Solution to Football Injuries

Last week you ran the stories by Bill Dwyre and Bill Plaschke on football causing head and neck injuries. Both were riveting expressions of football’s most feared dangers.

Granted, some schools have better medical care and facilities than others, but even the best will fall short where the most serious head and neck injuries are fatal or crippling.

Then how do we reduce the occurrence of these frightful injuries? It is my opinion that the most obvious cause of head and neck injuries is the plastic helmet and facemask. They are the worst thing ever to come into football because they give the player a false sense of security. He won’t get hit in the face and therefore will stick his head into danger.

Yes, football is a rough game, and that is one of the reasons that we play it, but if certain equipment contributes to serious injury and jeopardy of life, it would seem wise and logical to eliminate that exposure.

Jim Hardy

Los Angeles

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The thing that really upset me about your Oct. 26 edition is that although you have the space to cry about the brutality of high school football, you didn’t carry a schedule of the high school football games.

Al Freemon

Los Angeles