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RUTTER v. NORTHEASTERN BEAVER CTY., ETC.

496 Pa. 590 (1981)

437 A.2d 1198

Howard Lewis RUTTER, a minor, by his parents and natural guardians, Billy Dean Rutter and Lucy Rutter and Billy Dean Rutter and Lucy Rutter, in their own right, Appellants, v. The NORTHEASTERN BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, Gregg Zimmerman and John North, and Thomas W. George, Jr., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Arch Irvin, Jr. and R.E. Wayman, Irvin & McAuley, Pittsburgh, for appellants.

Richard J. Mills and Eric N. Anderson, Pittsburgh, for Thomas W. George, Jr. and John North.

Nick A. Frisk and Thomas Minett, Ellwood City, for Northeastern Beaver County School Dist.

Oran W. Panner, Beaver, for Gregg Zimmerman.

Before O'BRIEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY, KAUFFMAN and WILKINSON, JJ.

OPINION

FLAHERTY, Justice.

On July 13, 1970, Howard Rutter, a boy of sixteen, was injured while participating in a Riverside High School summer football practice. The practice was supervised and conducted by two football coaches, appellees John North and Thomas W. George, Jr. At the time of the injury, the team, without wearing protective equipment, was engaged in a game of "jungle football." Rutter was injured when...

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