Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last season B.U. was forced to forfeit quite a few games due to one of the squad being declared ineligible. This year a District Court judge ruled favorably in the eligibility cases of Bill Buckton and Peter Marzo and the squad is back in business with Buckton leading all Terrier goal scorers with five...
...reject them. Though the President is elected by nationwide ballot and is often said to represent all the people, he does not embody the nation's sovereignty. He is not above the law's commands. Sovereignty remains at all times with the people, and they do not forfeit through elections the right to have the law construed against and applied to every citizen...
...only way that Cornell could abolish all ROTC programs from campus is to forfeit its land grant status and thereby lose the major source of its funds for operation...
...time college coach knows, job security is measured by won-lost records. That produce-or-perish pressure accounts at least in part for the hanky-panky that caused Oklahoma two weeks ago to forfeit nine of last season's football games (TIME, April 30). Last week Steve Owens, a Heisman Trophy winner at O.U. who is now a Detroit Lions running back, suggested that abuses in player recruitment are more common than is generally suspected. Owens revealed that while he was a high school senior in Miami, Okla., one college offered to deliver a $5,000 cash bonus...
...football field last season, Oklahoma used its devastating Wishbone-T offense to win the Big Eight Conference title, the Sugar Bowl and the No. 2 ranking in the national polls. Off the field, the Sooners tried a variation on the old quarterback sneak that last week caused them to forfeit, retroactively, eight victories in which Freshman Kerry Jackson had participated. According to Big Eight investigators, Quarterback Jackson and Center Mike Phillips, who was on the freshman team, had been ineligible to play. Reason: their grade transcripts from Galveston Ball High School in Texas had been doctored-no one would...