A 17-year-old high-school football player in Sharon Spring, Kansas, collapsed and died moments after scoring a touchdown, NBC station KSN reported.
Wallace County High School senior Luke Schemm scored a touchdown in the middle of the third quarter on Tuesday, ran to the sidelines and collapsed moments later, his father told reporters.
He was transferred to a hospital near Denver, Colorado, where doctors declared him brain dead. The announcement that the teenager was taken off life support was made by the family's pastor during a vigil Wednesday night, according to KSN.
Schemm's on-field death was the 11th fatality related to high-school football since July, the affiliate reported, citing figures from the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
