The Cost of One Shattered Career Is Placed at $75,000 a Year
The New York Times, 05/02/1971

Last fall Kenny Kunken was a linebacker on Cornell’s 150-pound football team. Today Kenny Kunken, 20 years old, lies in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the neck down.
It was a rainy afternoon in Ithaca, and Cornell’s lightweights were playing Columbia in an Eastern League contest. Cornell led, 16-0, and Kunken was on the field with the kickoff unit.
He raced downfield on the kick and tackled the ball carrier with a jarring, headfirst tackle. He didn’t get up.
“Suddenly it was like an electric shock ran through my body,” he later recalled. “I immediately went numb.” /full article/