The former Rhodes Scholar who works at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., started playing tackle football at 6 years old. He advises against that now, preferring kids ...

This, the third release in a series, focuses on general attitudes about youth playing football. Fifty-three percent of adults surveyed feel that tackle football is not a safe activity for kids before ...

We let our boys play tackle ... that of a 9-year-old boy — and his football-loving dad. Eileen Flood O'Connor is a writer and mother of four children, the oldest of whom has an autistic ...

I played tackle football from roughly about the age Logan was when he sustained his serious injuries through college at Davidson. My son began playing football for St. James Middle in Myrtle ...

In separate polls conducted in 2012 and this year, The Post asked respondents whether they would recommend children play youth or high school football (without specifying tackle or flag).

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