High School Football Injury
The San Marcos school's principal Brad Lichtman and head football coach Chris Hauser announced Wednesday that after reviewing tapes of the game against West Hills, there is no obvious traumatic incident.
"It did not appear in our first review of that tape that I as a layperson would say that caused that injury," Lichtman said.
Scott Eveland went over to the sideline and was stumbling around early in the second quarter, and administrators said there wasn't very much tape to look at. But they said they did not see Eveland make helmet-to-helmet contact with anyone.
School officials said Eveland was not knocked down and wasn't at the bottom of a pileup.
Meanwhile, a recently released letter shows how much gratitude Eveland had for his parents. The honors student typed it shortly before he slipped into the coma.
"You did a very good job raising me and I hope to achieve what you two have so far," Eveland wrote in the letter.
Lichtman read a statement from Eveland's parents that said, "We continue to be thankful for all the gracious love and support from the community, including well-wishers from all local high schools, and cards from friends and classmates."
Hauser said the team is staying focused, but none of them have ever gone through this before.
"Three Escondido football players came by yesterday's practice and brought over a poster with all of them signed," Hauser said. "Valley center signed a poster and brought it here from their boys. At the hospital today, San Pasqual dropped off a card with all of their teams' signatures on it."
Eveland remains in an induced coma in critical condition at Palomar Medical Center
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