Southern Methodist University, a school based in Dallas, is the only program ever to receive the death penalty in college football. The Mustangs were hit with the harsh punishment in 1987 as a ...

There was a time when all SMU football was known for was "the death penalty" it received from the NCAA in 1987 for the scandal of paying players to play college football. That, of course ...

I was there marching as the third-chair euphonium player (of three) in the Southern Methodist University ... it fittingly is known as "the death penalty." In those two autumns, the Mustang Band ...

The support of the deep-pocketed donors has quickly launched the program from mediocrity to national relevance.

(Penn State Athletic Communications) Southern Methodist University football ... SMU football doesn’t reach back further than the “death penalty” sanctions imposed for recruiting violations ...

Ivan Pierre Aguirre USA Today Sports It is not hard to imagine where Southern Methodist University ... It tells the story of SMU receiving the “death penalty” from the NCAA in 1987 (the ...