A High School Quarterback Died On Friday After A Hit On The Field

Horrifying news out of high-school football — which has had its fair share of ugly recently — as Warren Hills High School quarterback Evan Murray died on Friday night after taking a hard hit in a game. Murray was a senior, and reportedly walked off the field under his own power after the initial hit, but collapsed while standing on the sideline later in the game.

What follows is an account from a Warren Hills junior who was at the game, as told to Jim Degan of Lehigh Valley Live:

“He was laying on the ground and everyone was looking at him. He did get back up. He stood up with help and sat on a gurney.”

He was then taken to an ambulance, she said.

What followed was confusion and concern, she said.

“I think people knew it was serious because Evan is a strong kid,” said Coughlin, of Mansfield Township. “From where I was standing in the Blue Crue (student section), there was silence.”

Every football fan knows the violence inherent to the sport and has to reconcile his or her fandom with it at some point, but no one wants to believe that the worst can happen to a player so young. Even at the high school level, football is, in its way, a daredevil sport that its participants are brave to play. That doesn’t make this tragedy any easier to take.

Authorities have not released the details on the official cause of death. Murray’s funeral will be held on Thursday.

(Via Lehigh Valley Live)

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