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Helmet tech aimed at concussions

By Patrick Dorsey
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Nate Haugh remembers almost everything about that tackle last September. The hit broke the other guy's chin strap, sending him to the sideline, and left Haugh feeling fine at first. Then, some dizziness and people telling him his eyes looked strange. Finally, his coach pulled him from the game, followed by an ambulance ride from the field at Indian Creek High School (Trafalgar, Ind.) to a hospital in nearby Indianapolis. Haugh, then a junior lineman at Milan (Ind.) High School, had sustained ...

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