A high school football game in Edinburg, Texas, was canceled in the third quarter after Golden Eagles junior quarterback Albert Chavez was taken off the field in an ambulance.
According to ESPN, Chavez, of Brownsville Hanna High School, went down after being sacked being sacked by an Edinburg defender early in the third quarter and remained on the turf as trainers attended to him. An ambulance was called, and the junior was placed on a stretcher and taken from Richard R. Flores Stadium.
Edinburg head coach Joe Pena and Hanna head coach Marc Guess agreed to end the game with just over 10 minutes left in the third quarter. Edinburg was ahead 15-0 at the time.
Guess said Chavez was stable, alert and able to move all his extremities, but that paramedics just needed to "rule out anything more severe."
Pena said the moment was about more than football.
“One of the things we talk about every day is that there are things in life more important than football,” Pena said after the game was called. “Right now we asked our team to join in a prayer for him, to help that family, that team and the staff they put together.”
