February 21, 2003

More Small Universities Are Getting Rid of Football

By WELCH SUGGS

Football is a phenomenally expensive sport, no matter what the level of competition. Outfitting anywhere between 60 and 150 players in what amounts to body armor, paying a small phalanx of coaches to point the players in the right direction, and just making space for a squad in a college's locker rooms, weight rooms, and training rooms is a major undertaking.

Yet many smaller colleges have started football teams in the past decade or gone to great lengths to maintain them because they

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