PEDIATRICS Vol. 49 No. 1 January 1972, pp. 147
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Letter to the Editor

E. F. Diamond M.D.1

1 Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois 60153

This letter was referred to the Academy's Joint Committee on Physical Fitness, Recreation, and Sports Medicine, whose Chairman answered it as follows:

Football is a collision sport which involves the risk of injury. The degree of risk is usually related to the conditions under which practice and play are conducted and the quality of supervision affecting the participants. Unless a school or community can provide exemplary supervision-medical and educational-it should not undertake a program of collision sports at the preadolescent level.