In September, Yale University economist, Ray C. Fair, the John M. Musser Professor of Economics, and Yale undergraduate Christopher Champa, co-authored a study - Estimated Costs of Contact in College and High School Male Sports - which, "Found that barring contact in football and other contact sports would generate savings of between $446 million and $1.5 billion per year in colleges, and up to $19.2 billion in high schools. Football accounted for slightly more than half of the college savings and more than 70% of savings in high school sports."
Mackie Shilstone,
Contributing writer
In addition, "Reducing the injury rates in football and other male contact sports to those of non-contact sports like tennis or baseball would result in 49,600 fewer injuries per year in colleges and 601,900 injuries per year in high school," according to the study.