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Sports medicine stats: College football participation and injuries

Football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. In 2005, over 60,000 collegiate males and over 1 million high school male athletes played. In this same academic year, the rate of injury in collegiate football was higher than the rate in high school football.

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-Source: American Journal of Sports Medicine, August 2007

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