MPSSAA Says New Town Football Forfeit 'Very Rare'
New Town played all season with an ineligible player, so the team has been forced to vacate all 10 of its wins.
An ineligible student athlete was allowed to play football all season at New Town High School in an administrative gaffe committed by school officials that is "very, very rare," the MPSSAA's executive director said. The team must forfeit its entire season -- one in which the Titans went 10-1 -- and will not participate in the MPSSAA Class 1A North Final. New Town had beat Northwestern 40-12 in a semifinal game last week and was slated to play Overlea Friday. All of that has been wiped away because a player on the New Town roster had exhausted all of his years of high school sports eligibility, said Ned Sparks, executive director of the state's governing body for high school athletics. There is no appeals process, Sparks said. The verdict …
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kevin
3:37 pm on Friday, November 18, 2011
Give me a break he played all season,can't they count ? Every high school child in America has the same requirements ,there are exceptions for sickness etc but they are the same for everyone.Are you telling me every player didn't know that kid was even possibly ineligible? No team even t-ball doesn't know everything about every player by the end of the season.If the coaches knew and instructed … more ›