{"id":1708183,"date":"2022-10-23T19:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T23:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708183"},"modified":"2022-10-23T19:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T23:48:20","slug":"male-rugby-player-collapses-and-dies-during-match-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/male-rugby-player-collapses-and-dies-during-match-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Rugby Player Collapses And Dies During Match: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmale-rugby-player-collapses-and-dies-during-match-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708183&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A male rugby player in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-zealand\">New Zealand<\/a> collapsed and died over the weekend during a match.<\/p>\n<p>The player collapsed and died during a festival match between Ruatoria City\u2019s 2022 squad and a Ruatoria Centennial XV, the New Zealand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/rugby-player-collapses-dies-during-east-coast-centennial-celebration-match\/PUW43HX5TCEPSFXOZAW3MHB4SQ\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The player collapsed after some sort of \u201con-field incident,\u201d the report said, but it gave no elaboration on what happened and if there was some sort of contact that preceded the player\u2019s collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that there were \u201cextensive efforts to save him\u201d but that he ended up dying at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The match was canceled and \u201chis body was removed from the pitch,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Players reportedly took turns paying their respects to the player on the field and the ground was \u201cto be blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the man\u2019s death, officials decided to move forward with the Lochore Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>A spectator told the publication that within a few minutes of the player collapsing, multiple ambulances drove onto the field before a helicopter arrived on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a football player at Mississippi State University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-mississippi-state-football-player-dies-suddenly-at-age-18\">collapsed and died<\/a> in an incident in which officials have provided few details.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Westmoreland, of Tupelo, Mississippi, announced back in March that he had decided to join the team after a \u201clong and exciting recruiting process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Westmoreland, who received awards for his football achievements while at Tupelo High School, decided to major in industrial technology at Mississippi State University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mississippi State Athletics Family is heartbroken by the sudden death of Sam Westmoreland,\u201d Head Coach Mike Leach said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cSam was a beloved son, brother and teammate, and a tremendous young man with a limitless future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will always be remembered and deeply missed by everyone who knew and loved him,\u201d Leach continued. \u201cThe entire MSU Family mourns as our thoughts and prayers go out to the Westmoreland family. Our highest priority is the support of the Westmoreland family and our student-athletes during this troubling time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No details were released by the university about the cause of Westmoreland\u2019s death and the school said that it was cooperating with an ongoing investigation into the matter by Oktibbeha County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Oktibbeha County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/talented-high-school-singer-collapses-and-dies-on-stage-while-performing-at-all-state-event-report\">Talented High School Singer Collapses And Dies On Stage While Performing At All-State Event<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male rugby player in New Zealand collapsed and died over the weekend during a match. The player collapsed and died during a festival match between Ruatoria City\u2019s 2022 squad and a Ruatoria Centennial XV, the New Zealand reported. The player collapsed after some sort of \u201con-field incident,\u201d the report said, but it gave no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1708186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}