{"id":6522,"date":"2025-10-18T01:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6522\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T01:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:01:07","slug":"hazing-allegations-prompt-temporary-suspension-of-pennsylvania-high-school-football-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6522\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazing allegations prompt temporary suspension of Pennsylvania high school football season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cheltenham High School football team&#8217;s season has been temporarily suspended after allegations of hazing, the Cheltenham School District announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DP7HdsCjOsy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In a letter to the Cheltenham community<\/a>, Superintendent Brian W. Scriven said the district received anonymous information regarding hazing in Cheltenham&#8217;s football program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This information is deeply concerning and, if substantiated, wholly inconsistent with our values as a district,&#8221; Scriven said in the letter. &#8220;The safety and welfare of our students is, and will always be, our highest priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The district has hired an external investigator to look into the hazing allegations. In the meantime, the district put the team&#8217;s season on hold and has postponed Friday night&#8217;s game against Truman High School.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I recognize that this decision deeply affects our students and families, the allegations deserve and require this immediate and decisive action,&#8221; Scriven said.<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent said the district plans to provide an update as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cheltenham High School football team&#8217;s season has been temporarily suspended after allegations of hazing, the Cheltenham School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5880,5879,304,200,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-cheltenham-high-school","tag-hazing","tag-high-school-football","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}