January 29, 1999

Lafayette Decides to Keep Football Team and to Raise More Money to Pay for Sports

By WELCH SUGGS

The sports teams at Lafayette College have been making headlines lately, but not because of their game-day prowess.

Costs are rising faster than budget increases in Lafayette's athletics department, and members of its Board of Trustees considered some extreme measures when they met this month: abolish the football team, or drop from the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I to the

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