Alex Duda

ENG 1201 Online

7 July 2019
Annotated Bibliography

Bachynski, Kathleen, et al. “A Week of Football Injuries Shows the Damage the Sport Can
Inflict.” STAT, STAT, 20 Nov. 2018, www.statnews.com/2018/11/21/football-injuries-
death-youth/.

This article, written by Kathleen Bachynski, explore the injuries that are related to
playing youth football and compare them to ones that happen at the professional level.
Specifically, she discusses the non-concussive injuries due to the fact that they are already
heavily studied. This is important to my research because it will provide a different angle on why
football could be dangerous and provide extra details about different types of injuries from the
other research I found. Also, it will focus on youth football, which was not discussed in the other
articles I found. I believe this will be a very useful source since it is demographically unique
compared to my other sources.

Belson, Ken, and Benedict Carey. “Abnormal Levels of a Protein Linked to C.T.E. Found in
N.F.L Players' Brains, Study Shows.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 10 Apr.
2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/health/concussion-nfl-football-
cte.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FHead%2BInjuries%2Bin%2BFootball&action
=click&contentCollection=sports&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&c
ontentPlacement=4&pgtype=collection

This article, which was written by Jen Belson and Benedict Carey for The New York
Times, discusses a neurological finding linking a specific protein in the brain to a Brain Disease.
This source provides scientific evidence that occurred with real people. This is important to my
research because it provides more evidence that playing football can lead to later problems in
life. Although this is primarily reoccurring at the professional level, it is still a major finding and
a huge step in making medical advances in the game of football. Also, it refers to the work of
many different doctors who performed real studies, so it will show to credible results that I could
use to support my claim.
Chen, Angela. “Brain Injury Found in 99 Percent of Donated Brains of NFL Players in New
Study.” The Verge, The Verge, 25 July 2017,
www.theverge.com/2017/7/25/16025146/chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy-football-
cognition-health

This article, written by Angela Chen, describes a finding by Jesse Mez, MD, MS,
coming from a disease being found in the majority of brains donated from men who played in the
National Football League. This is an important finding, because it provides more evidence and
another viewpoint on an injury that was also found in another one of my sources. I believe that a
good way to prove a claim is to provide multiple perspectives on the topic, to show there could
be many reasons to agree with a claim. Also, it provides a wider background of research to help
me understand many different effects of playing the sport. This research provides great insight to
a specific injury, but it occurred with players who played professionally. This causes the sample
size to be quite compared to the number of High School football players there are. Regardless, I
believe it provides necessary evidence to my claim.

Cluett, Jonathan. “11 Injuries That Occur in Football Players.” Verywell Health, About, Inc., 28
June 2019, www.verywellhealth.com/football-injuries-2548806.

This website provides common injuries resulting from playing contact football. It was
written by Johnathan Cluett, and also reviewed according to the HONcode Standard for
Trustworthy Health. This is important to my research because not only does it provide me with
common injuries, it also includes a link to more information on each injury. This can be very
useful to link with my other research about CTE, because these injuries can happen at any level
of football. Also, with the extra information that is provided, I can dig deeper and discuss the
long-term effects of certain injuries. Since it was reviewed by an award-winning medical board,
this will provide credible evidence about injuries that are common in football and how they
affect you physically and mentally.

Howard, Chelsea. “Poll Shows Nearly 50 Percent of American Parents Don't Want Their
Children Playing Football.” Poll Shows Parents Don't Want Kids Playing Football |
Sporting News, Sporting News, 3 Feb. 2018, www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-
football/news/nfl-ncaa-injuries-concussions-college-football-polls-parents-kids-
news/1j6qjgndeqx991p1zgdzm5e3g0.

This article will provide useful information for my research because it is specifically a
discussion on how parents feel about their children playing the sport of football. Written by
Chelsea Howard, she references a poll that was taken in 2018 which found that 48% of
Americans said they would encourage a child that wanted to play football to play another sport,
which was 8% higher from the same study that was recorded in 2014. This is important to my
research because it explore the reasons that could be linked to why Americans feel this way,
along with providing facts obtained from the poll. Also, it is important because it digs deeper
into the study to try and find specific behaviors which could cause this result.
Moore, Lela. “The Coach Says He's 'Built for Football.' His Parents Worry About C.T.E.” The
New York Times, The New York Times, 21 Sept. 2018,
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/reader-center/youth-football-head-injuries-cte.html

This article, written by Lela Moore, discusses the pressure that larger children feel due to
the obligation that they should play football because of their size. She also includes some
instances where parents with larger children encourage them to play non-contact sports and how
culturally we assume young boys are “built for football” because they are stronger and heavier
than the majority of their competitors. This is very important to my research because it provides
specific cases where someone’s child was pressured to play football, which shows that there is a
bias in place. Also, this is important because it will display how a small number of parents feel
about their children playing football. This is good information, but I will need more than this
alone to show what the majority of parents are portraying.

“Neurocognitive Deficits Observed on High School Football Players with History of

Concussion: A Preliminary Study.” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Electro
Information Technology (EIT), Electro Information Technology (EIT), 2016 IEEE
International Conference On, 2016, p. 0734. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1109/EIT.2016.7535330.

This source will be used to provide a study that was conducted to find exactly what
injuries are common with football players and how they affect the person mentally. Written for
the International Conference on Electro Information Technology (2016), this will show specific
cases and study the injuries they sustained, then look at what resulted from it and comparing
various tests they take. This is important to my research because it is very relatable to my topic
and it will provide evidence to support my claim. Also, It will provide specific long-term effects
that are caused from playing football and these people’s lives shaped out differently because of
their injuries.