{"id":885860,"date":"2026-10-17T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885860\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:14:14","slug":"college-football-player-tyler-ulrich-dies-five-days-after-suffering-traumatic-injury-during-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885860\/","title":{"rendered":"College football player Tyler Ulrich dies five days after suffering traumatic injury during a game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Ulrich, a 21-year-old football player at Southern Nazarene University, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/college-football-player-dies-traumatic-brain-injury-incurred\/story?id=137319934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">died Thursday<\/a>. He had suffered a traumatic injury five days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The injury happened in a game against Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>There are no details about the injury suffered by Ulrich, who played safety at SNU. Via KOCO, the Southern Nazarene play-by-play announcer Dave Myrick said Ulrich was down on the field after the play, but that he <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.koco.com\/article\/southern-nazarene-tyler-ulrich-dies-injured-in-game\/74149693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">couldn\u2019t tell what had happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an unimaginable tragedy for Ulrich\u2019s family and his team. Saturday\u2019s game at Southwestern State University <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/snuathletics.com\/sports\/football\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has been canceled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/standing-in-faith-with-tyler-and-his-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GoFundMe account<\/a> has been established to assist Tyler\u2019s family during this time.<\/p>\n<p>We extend our condolences to Tyler Ulrich\u2019s family, teammates, coaches, and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Ulrich, a 21-year-old football player at Southern Nazarene University, died Thursday. He had suffered a traumatic injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-885860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}