A new high-tech football helmet may help prevent concussions and reduce the brain injuries that give athletes chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

California's Assembly Bill 708, proposed by Avelino Valencia, seeks to allow soft helmet pads in youth football to enhance ...

Three former college football players in the California Legislature think youth leagues should allow padded helmet add-ons ...

Some California youth football leagues ban Guardian Caps. Three former football players in the Legislature think parents and children should have the option of wearing them.

A potential new design for padding in sports helmets could absorb as much as 25% more impact than existing foams, adding additional protection from head injuries.

The team’s innovations, which can be printed on commercially available 3D printers, could one day wind up in everything from shipping crates to football pads—anything that helps to protect fragile ...

Nearly every North Jersey football program was missing equipment — helmets, some type of pads, jerseys or even footballs — when practices began Aug. 10, a survey of coaches conducted by the ...

In 2006, a few years after college, DePaul recruited some guys from high school for a football league that resembled a backyard game—seven-on-seven, no kickers or kickoffs, no helmets or pads.

New kinds of padding could make football gear, bike helmets safer than ever. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 02 / 240205165900.htm ...

Three former college football players in the California Legislature think youth leagues should allow padded helmet add-ons like NFL players wear.

His Assembly Bill 708 aims to prevent youth football leagues from prohibiting players from wearing the mushroom-shaped padded helmet add-ons that are sometimes worn by concussion-wary NFL players ...