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Show Friday, January 11, 1980. THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Page ll Researchers Seek Ways To Make Football Safer DETROIT (UPI) — There probably Suggested barring blocking and tackl- ts little that can be done to reduce muchfurther the risk of serious injury faced by football players ing with the head have cut serious head injuries to an Enforcement of game.’ researchers say Although refining protective equip- Serious neck injuries in recent years Hodgson said. can add a measure of safety players Hodgson said new and ‘exotic’’ protective equipment stil! in the development stages probably will be available in the future to further reduce the incidence of these crippling injuries Stricter rules of play and educating coaches in the fundamentals of the always will face some chance of serious injury without somebasic revisions in the sport the scientists said State of the art protection as it now exists, IS probably as about good asit could be.” said Dr. Voigt R. Hodgson director of Wayne State University's Gurdjian-Lissner Biomechanics Laboratory I don’t think they can do too much more without changing the real nature of the game, whichis to advance a football against an opponent,”’ he said. sport likely will help also he said. But truly making the game ‘as safe as pos- sible’ will take something more Hog admitted s there always will be a risk in ae football’ he said “I don't think we'll ever accept it and I'm hopeful the numberswill be reduced. But I can’t be overly optimisticthat we Hodgson and Dr. L. Murray Thomas head ongoing research at WSUcon: centrating on ways to make football a safer contact sport through improving equipment design and rules recom- can quickly reduce them.’ One approach discussed is eliminating “certain plays that are more dangerous than others,’ such as kickoffs. said Hodgson. He quickly added he was making no recommendation on such a move however. “That is a basic change and it . eliminates something that is really an mendations. Hodgson..a professor of engineering in neurosurgery and Thomas, a neurosurgeon, also are the principal investigators for the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment The two have focused on reducing serious head andneckinjuries that can enjoyable part of watching a football game,” hesaid. cause paralysis and death and already can boast a significant degree of sucsearch for perfect powder is the theme of VAGA- BOND SKIERS, a 90-minute film which follows them around the world. The movie will be shown at Provo High School Jan.17 at 8 p.m. Ticketswill be available at the box office beginning at 6 p.m. Nehemiah’s Hurdling Began as Putdown By MICHAEL SHALIN UPI Sports Writer door hurdles marks at 50 yards (6.04 50 meters (6.36), 60 yards (6.89) and 55 meters (6.89). He then went outside and, in his first outdoor race of the year, set the world 110-meter hurdles record of 13.16. He then went to UCLA May6 andshattered his ownrecord by inning 13-flat. Nehemiahhasn't had too much pra tice in accepting defeat. He wasbeat only oncelastyear, losing to American. NEW YORK (UPI) — It’s a career that started as a ‘“‘putdown" —just somethingto try because he wasn't excelling at what he was doing. Now, Renaldo Nehemiahis the king of the world’s high hurdlers. Nehemiah wasa sprinter backin his junior high school days in Scotch Plains, N.J., and the fifth-best sprinter onhis team, atthat. So hetried the hur- Dedy Cooper in Zurich, Switzerland, He dies, andhis real ‘‘career”’ began. “Believeit or not, it started asa put- down,” Nehemiah recalls. “I wasn't satisfied with being the No. 5 sprinter ‘on the team andI just tookit (hurdling) on. “I just happened to watch a hurdle race one day. It looked fascinating, like areal challenge. I asked (Coach) Larry Thomasif i could try and he said ‘You wanna be a hurdler?’ I said, ‘I'll try it.’ Well, as they say,the rest is history. Nehemiah, now a %-year-old University of Maryland star, towers abovehis competition as he prepares himself for the favorite’s role in the 110-meter hurdies in this summer's Moscow Olympics. “Skeets” had the kind of year runners dream ofin 1979. He set world in- calls that loss ‘‘a lesson’ and onegets the feeling that it won't happen again But if a major defeat should come along — like one in Moscow — Skeets will be ready. “T train for the win but I alsodis: cipline myself for the defeat,’’ he says. “That helps me.” Comingoff his record-setting ri last year. Nehemiah is avoiding temptation of shooting for more records in favor of preparing for Moscow. “If it weren't an Olympicyear, I'd 2 for world records,”’ he says.‘‘But most of the records are mine andI kind of shattered those. Just to get hurt to breaka record or to win a race doesn't make much sense. You may not be there whenit counts. “In most meets, I’m the defending already madea couple of contacts in Washington. I've made it known that Nehemiah will run in four indoor I'm interestedin both broadcasting and meets this year. He says that's all he television production. needs to stay in shape. He was “It depends on what opportunities scheduled at Washington Jan.11 and in follow butI'd never disengage mmyself New York Jan. 19 and Feb.8. A fourth from track and field. If a Bruce Jenner opportunity came along. I'd have to meet will also be announced. Whenanathlete is a heavy favorite to consider it. I don’t think I'd go for the win anything, the inevitable question Olympicsagain unlessI didit in a difis, ‘Whatwill you do if you lose? Will ferent event. Winning one gold medalis you try again?’ Nehemiah says he as significant as winning two. Skeets’ winter training was slowed probably would. “T’ve gotten this close,”’ he says. “‘If down by upperrespiratory problems. “TI got sick a few times andit’s slwere a longshot — like the No. 15 owed me down,” he says. ‘‘] had a virus hurdler in the world — maybe I'd say forgetit if I lost. But to comesoclose. I that was prolonged from traveling think I'd stick it out. I'd owe it to through Europe. Then I got bronchitis and then asthma. I started getting myself.” hungry, edgy from not running. But I Nehemiah doesn’t figure to lose. won't run until I think I’m healthy. Even Cuban Alejandro Casauas —his “T try to win but I’m not gonna put arch-rival — probably isn’t good myself on the lineif I don’t feel right. I enough to beat him anymore. Skeets don’t need that muchtraining for 60 figures to win in Moscow and win big yards anyway.” leaving the door wide open for a what Nehemiah wears a gold chain should be a golden future. necklace —given to him byhis cousin “T started out in football. I wouldn't after his World Cup victory last aon totally shut my eyes to football but, to — that proclaims him to ‘‘No.1. risk the chance of getting hurt, there There are many instances today where would have to be a lot of money in- athletes think of themselves as being volved,” he says when asked about his greater than they actually are. 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