Tom Gadd, former defensive coordinator at the...

Tom Gadd, former defensive coordinator at the University of Utah, testified that there was a program at that school to provide steroids to football players in the early 1980s.

Gadd, 42, a Utah coach from 1977 to 1982 and a South Carolina assistant from 1982 to 1986, is on trial in Columbia, S.C., for misdemeanor charges of importing steroids into South Carolina, encouraging players to use steroids and helping to monitor use of the drugs.

Under the Utah program, Gadd said, a player and his parents were required to sign a “consent form” that outlined potential side effects of steroids and relieved the university and its employees of liability, testimony showed. The form also said the players had not been pressured to take steroids.