NCAA Football and Concussions. Yeah, its worse than you think.
/The NCAA does not publish records of the concussions in its various participating institutions. These records are kept by athletic trainers through the NCAA's Injury Surveillance Program at the Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention. But they simply are not available to the public in a meaningful fashion. 60 college programs or about one-half of the 126 football bowl subdivision NCAA Division I schools did not publicly report their concussions. Despite this fact, there are sources that can be tracked, (Bella, America Tonight). What follows are a lot of numbers. This article focuses on a seasonal report of concussions at the collegiate level. Larger conferences also provide an approximate number of concussions per season. So let's start there.
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Concussions by Conference
Concussion by Position
Concussions by Position
Concussion by Team
Concussions by Position (total)
The National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA's) Football Bowl Subdivision or FBS consists of 128 institutions which have varsity sports. Schools included in the FBS are allowed to provide scholarship aid to 85 individuals and full scholarships to additional 85 individuals. The NCAA schools of the Football Championship Subdivision or FCS are limited to financial assistance that may equal 63 full scholarships. The NCAA has 1,281 member institutions, colleges and associations in the United States and Canada.
There are twenty-four collegiate varsity sports at the NCAA level. The 191 concussions for 2013 season only apply to football. The 23 other concussion statistics are not available.
Sources:
Bella, T. (2015, December 31). What we learned from 500 concussions in 3 years of college football. America Tonight. Retrieved from Aljazeera America.