The former Rhodes Scholar who works at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., started playing tackle football at 6 years old. He advises against that now, preferring kids ...

The nonprofit Concussion Legacy Foundation warns parents against children playing tackle football before age 14. “We are ...

We let our boys play tackle ... that of a 9-year-old boy — and his football-loving dad. Eileen Flood O'Connor is a writer and mother of four children, the oldest of whom has an autistic ...

Jon Butler sees things differently. He’s the executive director of Pop Warner, the nation’s most prominent youth football organization, where kids can begin playing tackle football at age 5. To its ...

The girls weren’t head-hunting or chop-blocking – just playing the kind of tackle football all kids play on the playground, with the added safety measure of playing under the watchful eyes of ...

A California bill that aims to reduce the risk of brain injury by banning tackle football for children under 12 cleared its first hurdle Wednesday after a legislative committee voted for the ...