High School Sports
Editor’s note: The football scandal at Southern Methodist University has created turmoil not only on the campus but throughout the state of Texas.
March 29, 1987
Sports
Southern Methodist University will continue to be affiliated with the United Methodist Church, a church committee decided, but the panel deplored SMU officials’ “arrogance of power” that brought unprecedented scandal and embarrassment to the school.
June 27, 1987
Southern Methodist University officials said they will cooperate with state officials in a probe of SMU’s pay-for-players football scandal, Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox said.
Aug. 7, 1987
World & Nation
A group of Methodist ministers from across the nation launched an online petition drive urging Southern Methodist University in Dallas to stop trying to land George W.
Jan. 19, 2007
Southern Methodist University Coach Tom Rossley fired three assistant coaches and hired four more in an off-season shake-up of the Mustangs’ football team.
Feb. 16, 1993
California
The ethnically diverse United Methodist churches--calling themselves “the rainbow people of God”--will fill the Universal Amphitheatre today for a celebration launching a new effort to reverse a long-term membership slide.
June 3, 1995
Southern Methodist University officials confirmed they have been notified they will be summoned before the NCAA Committee on Infractions next week at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego.
Feb. 4, 1987
Southern Methodist University, whose football program was placed on three years’ probation by the NCAA last month, announced it had fired assistant football coach P.J.
Sept. 2, 1985
Archives
The faculty senate of Southern Methodist endorsed a petition signed by more than half the faculty recommending that the university abolish its athletic programs as they are currently being operated.
Nov. 20, 1986
Southern Methodist University officials plan to fight an NCAA order that would banish nine boosters from an official booster organization and keep them out of the athletic program, the Dallas Times Herald reported.
March 6, 1987