Pop Warner Safety Facts
DID YOU KNOW???
In Pop Warner Football, there is "an absence of catastrophic head and
The injury rate in Pop Warner Football is:
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less than one-third the injury rate in high school footba
less than one-fifth the injury rate in college football;
less than one ninth the injury rate in professional football.
Pop Warner’s age-weight schematic protects younger, lighter players, who do not have higher injury rate?1
Organized football among 5-15 year-olds has 12% fewer injuries per capita than organized soccer in the same age range?2
Organized football among 5-15 year-olds has 50% fewer injuries per capita than bicycle riding in the same age range? 3
Organized football among 5-15 year-olds has 74% fewer injuries per capita than skateboarding in the same age range? 4
1 "Injuries in Youth Football", Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma, Lenox Hill Hospital, published in Pediatrics Magazine
2 U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, NEISS
3 Ibid
4 Ibid