Word: buder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite all the efforts of equipment designers, doctors, trainers, and coaches, deaths do occur. A Penn junior varsity lineman, Al Buder, broke his leg in a game against Harvard. The fracture seemed to be normal and not at all dangerous, but a sudden embolism, or air bubble, developed and a week later Buder died...
...football is a contact sport, and pain and risk are an integral part of the game. It is the job of the trainers and the doctors, as well as the equipment designers and the coaches, to alleviate the pain, reduce the risk, and assure that cases like Al Buder's are as few as is humanly possible...