Kansas high school football player dies

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Posted By: Jeff Fisher November 4, 2015

Multiple media outlets are reporting that Luke Schemm, a senior football player at Wallace County High School, has died after collapsing during a Tuesday night playoff game.

WJHL-TV reports that Schemm died at a local hospital after collapsing on the sidelines during his team’s 8-Man Division I playoff game against Otis Bison High School.  Schemm reportedly had just scored a touchdown and extra point.

Schemm is the eighth high school football player to die this year.

 

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Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.

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