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A high school football game participant from Jacksonville, Fla., was killed Wednesday nighttime as he tried to outrun a cargo train.

Authorities state 17-year-old Wesley Whiddon had been fishing with two teammates on a span Wednesday and was crossing to an embankment when the railroad train approached. The two other male children made it safely to the other side, but Whiddon did not.

"They were male children being boys. Huck Finn," said investigator Heather Pierce, who have a boy on the football game team, according to the Sunshine State Times-Union.

Foul drama is not suspected and drugs and alcoholic beverage were not a factor, according to police.

The other two male children were treated for minor hurts at a infirmary and released.

Whiddon's teammates state they will play their concluding springtime game in his honor.

"His female parent insisted that we acquire back out there," said Whiddon's caput coach, Neal Chipoletti, according to the Times-Union. "I believe it will assist our children to be around each other. We'll take a couple years off and then go back to the field."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.