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Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens was one of the presenters at a conference in Worcester, Mass., under the auspices of the Practice Like Pros initiative.

A story about the event in the Worcester Telegram begins this way:

Terry O’Neil likes to begin his discussions about Practice Like Pros with a quiz.

O’Neil, founder of the organization designed to bring professional practice techniques to high school football, will ask how many concussions, among roughly 2,000 NFL players, were reported during practice in last year’s regular and postseason.  

The answer is three.  

He contrasts that with a high school coach in Florida who saw six of his athletes suffer concussions last year — in one practice.

Here's a video Teevens and his staff prepared that shares some of the practice techniques he discussed in Worcester: