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Nearly 40 percent of the high school boys who played varsity football last year sustained injuries, but there were fewer serious injuries than there once were, a study by the National Athletic Trainers' Association reports.

Overall, the proportion of injuries has not changed much since the association released similar data for 1986-88. But the new study shows there were 2.4 percent fewer major injuries and 5.7 percent fewer moderate injuries during the 1995 season.

"It's very encouraging to us," said John W. Powell, the director of the study for the Dallas-based group. "But you need to show me next year that this is going...