University of Michigan
Hockey
J.T. Todd, a freshman, reportedly was given large quantities of alcohol in a player's off-campus house in what had become an annual initiation ritual. He allegedly was stripped, shaved, covered with jam, eggs and cologne and left outside in near-freezing weather for 90 minutes. Four other players also were hazed.

1981

Toms River H.S. (N.J.)
Soccer
Freshmen were abused physically and thrown in the mud. The head coach and two assistant coaches were dismissed because they allowed the annual event.
1983

Nogales H.S. (Ariz.)
Baseball
Seven junior varsity players said that they had been assaulted by older players in the back of the team bus. Coaches were acquitted but had to give up their positions.

1985

Lowell H.S. (Mass.)
Hockey
Five seniors were removed from the team for punching and hanging two sophomore teammates by their waists. Lawyers for the five seniors said the students had gone through a similar hazing when they joined the team. The coach of the team later resigned.

Milgord College (Germany.)
Hockey
In a bizarre and distrubing case, charges were laid against 4 seniors. The group had sexual intercourse with a female, ejaculated into condoms and then had a a college mate eat the sperm as part of a hazing ritual. The victim was told he was eating a mixure of cornstarch and only after he had consumed the contents of the four condoms was he told the truth.

Medford H.S. (Mass.)
Football
Paul McGaffigan, a sophomore, alleged he was forced to strip and run naked with a cracker in his buttocks as part of a traditional hazing game.

1988

Lyndhurst H.S. (N.J.)
Football
At a football camp in Pennsylvania, one sophomore was allegedly forced to insert his finger into the anus of another sophomore while 20 to 30 other teammates looked on. Two upperclassmen were dismissed from the team, and two others were demoted on the squad as a result of a school inquiry into the matter. No coaches were disciplined.

Holmdel H.S. (N.J.)
Football
About 20 underclassmen reportedly played a nude game of Twister as about a dozen senior teammates urged them on. As a result of the incident, all of the school's 85 football players reportedly were ordered to undergo mental health counseling, and some coaches reportedly were disciplined.

Kent State University (Ohio)
Hockey
The hockey season was canceled after 12 players were charged with violating various hazing and drinking laws during an off-campus initiation party that resulted in the shaving of heads and bodies of the students involved. One rookie nearly died after veterans coerced him to chug liquor and beer through a bong device.

Watertown H.S. (Mass.)
Football
Three coaches and five players received suspensions after a series of long-standing hazing events at a football camp were revealed. Players were reportedly forced to sit in urine, do chores for veterans, and participate in a "cookie run," in which boys stripped, placed cookies in their buttocks, and raced across a field. If the cookie fell out, the player would have to eat it.

1990

Brockton H.S. (Mass.)
Track
Ten members of the Brockton High School team were suspended from school for apparently hazing new team members. The incident involved the slapping of students and the clipping of at least one student's pubic hair. No one was injured, authorities said.

1991

Jackson State University (Miss.)
Football
Coach W.C. Gordon took strong action by suspending four athletes and kicked two off the squad for allegedly hazing rookies.

The Citadel (S.C.)
Football
Two freshman players left the military school amid complaints of hazing. One upperclassman eventually was sentenced to 100 hours of community service.

Ontario High School (Ore.)
Baseball
Police said six veterans sodomized four teammates.

1992

Wilmington H.S. (Mass.)
Football
Fourteen students were suspended for a series of allegations including forced haircuts and the whipping of boys with a belt and rope. The school's superintendent, declaring that "boys will be boys," later exonerated three students and reduced the suspensions for the other 11, from seven games to one game and from five days to three days from school. The incidents happened at a New Hampshire football camp.

Lodi H.S. (N.J.)
Football
Anthony Erekat, a member of the football squad, was duct-taped by the arms and legs at a football camp run by the team's coaches. He had his hair hacked off and had players spread feces and peanut butter over his body. Fourteen players eventually pleaded guilty and were ordered to perform 50 hours each of community service. They also were suspended for the season's first game but then were allowed to play when someone realized that the opening game was against a tough rival. The players served their suspension during a game against a lesser opponent. Erekat received a financial settlement.

1993

Sky View H.S. (Utah)
Football
School Superintendent Larry Jensen cancelled the last game of the football season and eliminated a playoff berth after a player, Brian Seamons, charged that he had been taped nude to a table, mocked, and then subjected to having his girlfriend see him in this state. A lawsuit is pending. Among other claims, Seamons argued that his rights to free speech were violated when the coach allegedly kicked him off the team because he would not apologize for reporting the locker room incident. Seamons is still pursuing a lawsuit.

1995

Hasbrouck Heights H.S. (N.J.)
Football
Two seniors on the football team were not charged by police or punished by the school after asking two younger players to take a lap around the playing field without pants. Family members asked the police and school to let the participants settle the problem themselves.

Wisconsin Heights H.S. (Wisc.)
Football
Five students were suspended for hazing younger players, including the taping of one naked football player to a goal post before practice.

1996

Duxbury H.S. (Mass.)
Baseball
Players were caught shoplifting items from a store while dressed in their baseball uniforms as part of a team tradition. The team forfeited 13 games as part of its punishment.

Walla Walla H.S. (Wash.)
Football
Eight players were suspended from the team after a hazing incident at a Boise, Idaho, training camp in which six freshmen were humiliated with improper bodily contact. At least two of the freshmen reportedly had toothpaste smeared on their naked buttocks. They and other students also had their legs bound with underwear and their shorts yanked up. Fourteen players were reprimanded for not reporting the incident.

Hillcrest H.S. (Utah)
Football
Five top members of the team were suspended for their reported role in a hazing incident in the boys locker room during practice. A school district spokeswoman would say little except that the behavior was inappropriate, physical and threatening to three victims.

Roy H.S. (Utah)
Football
Two seniors were kicked off the team after a group of sophomores complained they were humiliated during a hazing incident at a football camp. The seniors were accused of holding down the sophomores while one of them sat naked on their faces or the backs of their heads.

Alexander H.S. (Ohio)
Football
Travis A. Hawk, a team captain, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of hazing involving several freshman teammates in the locker room showers. He sodomized a player with shampoo bottles after football practice on separate nights al. Hawk was given a suspended sentence and $50 fine, plus community service requirement.

Thorndale H.S. (Tex.)
Football
Four players pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of hazing for sodomizing a teammate with a bottle. The assailants were ordered to apologize and were sentenced to perform 80 hours of community service, serve one year of probation, and pay the victim's counseling fees up to $2,000.

1997

Prospect H.S. (Ill.)
Football
Two players testified in juvenile court that they rescued a teammate after he allegedly was sexually assaulted with a foreign object in the locker room.

University of Washington
Men's soccer
The men's soccer team was placed on university probation and its members ordered to perform community service after campus police discovered three players taped to a luggage cart on school grounds. The three were bound into sexual positions.

West Virginia University
Swimming/diving
Seventeen team members were suspended for two meets after underclassmen were required to drink alcohol and perform calisthenics within time limits.

Westlake H.S. (Calif.)
Wrestling
Officials canceled the team's season after allegations that older wrestlers grabbed younger teammates, pinned them down, and jabbed them in the buttocks with a mop handle. The players were all fully clothed. Seven wrestlers were suspended. Police dropped their investigation after parents for each of the four victims told officials they did not want to seek prosecution.

University of Wisconsin-Stout
Baseball
Veteran coach Terry Petrie was suspended for one year after veterans were accused of coercing underclassmen into eating goldfish on a team road trip.

lm Harbor University H.S. (Fla.)
Baseball
Five juniors attacked two freshmen on the team bus, punching them in their chests, ramming their heads into seats and rubbing a caustic liniment, called Atomic Balm, on the buttocks of at least one of the boys, according to the sheriff's office. The players received 3-5 day suspensions.

North Branch H.S. (Mich.)
Basketball
One player was expelled and six players were suspended for a series of what police described as "terrifying" hazing acts at a summer camp. One freshman was allegedly hit in the genitals with a wooden coat hanger, another was sprayed with urine from a shampoo bottle and a third had his face forced onto another teen's buttocks. Two coaches lost their jobs for failing to provide adequate supervision.

Glendale H.S. (Calif.)
Football
Eight players pinned younger players on the locker room floor and poked them in the buttocks with sawed-off broom handles and a mini-baseball bat, according to school and police officials. The players were suspended.

Newtown H.S. (Conn.)
Wrestling
The team was forced to forfeit four matches after several team members were caught trying to initiate a freshman by dunking his head into a toilet bowl.

Hilton Head H.S. (S.C.)
Wrestling
The wrestling coach resigned and six players were suspended after a player complained of being sexually assaulted with a broomstick. In a statement, police also found that wrestlers engaged in practices called "trademarking," in which wrestlers were hit, usually on the back, while sweating, which would leave a welt; and "dinking" which is a distraction technique used by the wrestlers during wrestling matches to defeat their opponent. Dinking "is when the finger is placed in or about the rectum area to distract the other (wrestler)," police said. The victims declined to press charges.