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<p>Tell me about it. One of the members of Swarthmore’s Board of Managers when they decided to drop football in 2000 was Neil Austrian, former President of the National Football League. Not a happy camper.</p>
<p>The number of Div III football programs continues to decline, though. The numbers are difficult for small LACs where 1 out of every 10 male students in each freshman class have to be football recruits. With an overwhelmingly white recruiting base for Div III sports, that undermines diversity efforts.</p>