Haverford ended football in 1972 due to lack of players. Apparently they weren’t giving athletes preferential admission.
Swat ended football in 2000 due to a lack of numbers in a small LAC. With football they would have had 30% athletes and their president felt that 10-15% is a more appropriate number. They had 53 players on the 2000 team versus opponents with 75+. Without football, wrestling and badminton they could use spots to shore up the other sports.
In 1997 BU cancelled football because its chancellor wouldn’t fund a program in deficit.
In 2009 NEU cancelled football because its $4 million budget wasn’t enough to be competitive and it badly needed to upgrade its stadium, which has since been converted into a state of the art baseball stadium.