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Illinois Proposal To Ban Youth Tackle Football Dead
A contentious proposal that sought to ban youth tackle football in Illinois is dead, for now.
A contentious proposal that sought to ban youth tackle football in Illinois is dead, for now.
A new plan in Illinois aims to end youth tackle football programs with the goal of preventing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease of the brain caused by repetitive brain trauma.