Here is another one from the past.
“Three years ago, Francis Scott Key High School in Union Bridge, Md., was going to make school history by having its first female football player. Now, in a nightmarish saga, it may make history again.
In 1989, Tawana Hammond, a 17-year-old running back who had never played organized football, was tackled in her first scrimmage and allegedly suffered internal injuries that required removal of her spleen and half of her pancreas. This August, 11 days before the statute of limitations for a civil suit expired, Hammond sued the Carroll County school system for $1.5 million.
Hammond alleges in her three-count lawsuit, scheduled to be brought to court Dec. 8, that the Carroll County Board of Education did not properly inform her of the inherent risk of injury related to playing football. The lawyer for the board, Ed O’Mealy, would not comment on whether it is the responsibility of the board to inform each player of the risks involved, but said that every player is required to get a physical and a permission form signed by parents. Hammond got both.”
Someone who doesn't already know, shouldn't be trying out.
If I remember that story, the case was dismissed on the grounds that the school owed no such “duty to warn” about the dangers of playing football.