William & Mary scandal of 1951

The William & Mary scandal of 1951 was a transcript-altering scandal at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Prior to World War II, college officials at William & Mary "attempted to [have The College] become a big-time football power" despite its "enrollment of far less than 1000 males". (Other sources place the enrollment at approximately 1,500 students in the late 1930s.) That is, The College tried to become a formidable NCAA Division I athletics power despite its small size. Pressures to be successful in sports—especially football, men's basketball, and baseball—had been mounting for over a decade by the time the scandal was discovered in 1951.

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