Alabama Placed on Probation; Must Vacate 21 Football Wins
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Alabama Placed on Probation; Must Vacate 21 Football Wins
The violations include impermissible benefits obtained by 201 athletes through misuse of free textbooks.
Alabama identified 22, including seven football players, as "intentional wrongdoers" who knew they were receiving improper benefits.
The vacated football wins were from 2005 to 2007 in which those seven played.
The victories were vacated, meaning the school may not acknowledge a win. Vacating a win is different from forfeiture, in which the loser claims the victory, according to The Birmingham News.
Source: Associated Press
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College Football: Famed past tarnished
The NCAA hit Alabama's football program where it hurts - the Tide's famed history.
The Crimson Tide will slip a notch in the record books if university officials don't appeal NCAA sanctions that would force the program to vacate 21 wins for misuse of textbooks acquired by student-athletes for free using their scholarships.
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NCAA sacks Bama
The NCAA placed Alabama's football program and 15 of the school's other athletic teams on three years' probation for major violations due to misuse of free textbooks, stripping the Crimson Tide of 21 football wins over a three-year period.
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