Front page of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS on Feb. 26, 1987:
The Southern Methodist University football program, the most punished in NCAA history, received the harshest sanctions ever – including suspension for the 1987 season – when the NCAA announced its precedent-setting decision Wednesday.
Citing penalties intended to “eliminate a program that was built on a legacy of wrongdoing, deceit and rule violations,” the NCAA Committee on Infractions for the first time barred a school from playing football for an entire season.
That news was largely the culmination of reporting done in Dallas the previous two years by WFAA-TV sports director Dale Hansen.
This week Hansen produced a short video opinion piece on what he thought of the NCAA’s decision to maintain Cam Newton’s eligibility in the wake of allegations that Newton’s father actively marketed his son’s football skills to Mississippi State.
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