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The Roanoke Times | File 2011
Va. Tech helmet data show youth take hard hits
In a first look at the youngest athletes playing tackle football, a small Virginia Tech study recorded the force of head impacts on 7- and 8-year-old boys playing football on a Montgomery County rec league team last fall.
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