--- title: Stanford Football Player Sexual Assault Allegations description: A Stanford football player remains on the school's team despite being accused of sexual assault, the New York Times reports. canonical: https://time.com/4619608/stanford-football-sexual-assault/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-29T17:07:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:15.878Z og:title: A Stanford Football Player Accused of Sexual Assault Remains on the Team og:description: Even though a majority found him culpable og:url: https://time.com/4619608/stanford-football-sexual-assault/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a0020d907f453b0/6988b42b97cdff11536aeff4/stanford-sexual-assault-football.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Colorado v Stanford og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Stanford Football Player Accused of Sexual Assault Remains on the Team twitter:description: Even though a majority found him culpable twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a0020d907f453b0/6988b42b97cdff11536aeff4/stanford-sexual-assault-football.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Stanford Football Player Accused of Sexual Assault Remains on the Team > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by David Madison/Getty Images) A general view of Hoover Tower and the Stanford University campus as seen from Stanford Stadium prior to an NCAA Pac-12 football game between the Stanford Cardinal and the University of Colorado Buffaloes played on October 22, 2016 on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. (Photo by David Madison/Getty Images)David Madison—Getty Images  by [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Dec 29, 2016 5:07 PM UTC A football player at Stanford is slated to play in a bowl game on Friday after being found to commit [sexual assault](http://motto.time.com/4544274/uc-berkeley-party-ban-sexual-assault/) by a majority of a university panel, [the New York _Times_ reported](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/sports/football/stanford-football-rape-accusation.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&%5Fr=0). According to the _Times_, a Stanford sophomore accused the football player — both unnamed by the _Times_ — of raping her after a fraternity party (the football player, who did not respond to interview requests from the _Times_, told school officials they had consensual sex). Instead of a police investigation, the case was handled by Stanford’s in-house disciplinary board, a panel of administrators, faculty members and students. The football player was found responsible of committing sexual assault by three of the five panelists twice. But because Stanford required a 4-1 majority for sexual assault cases, the football player wasn’t punished — and remains on the football team’s roster ahead of the school’s Friday bowl game against North Carolina. The woman told the _Times_ that she left Stanford so she doesn’t have to run into the player around campus. “But do I have to leave Stanford to feel safe? I’m certain that this isn’t the way the Title IX process was meant to work,” the woman told the _Times_. The revelation about the case comes as Stanford continues to face scrutiny about how it handles sexual assault after [the national uproar](http://motto.time.com/4472271/california-brock-turner-rape-law/?iid=sr-link4) [of the Brock Turner case case](http://motto.time.com/4472271/california-brock-turner-rape-law/). Stanford also recently changed how it adjudicates sexual assault and now requires a unanimous verdict from a three-person panel. This makes Stanford’s adjudication process one of the strictest in the country. And victim’s rights advocates aren’t happy with that change, arguing it favors the accused, according to the _Times_. Stanford defended its new policy in an interview with the _Times_. “Imagine a senior, who has paid four years of Stanford tuition,” Provost John W. Etchemendy said. “Being expelled is really a life-changing punishment. I think we as an institution have a duty to take that very seriously.” But the woman said victims have a right to stay at school, too. “I realized that I got into this school and deserved to get an education here,” the woman told the _Times_. “He was a valued football player, but I had earned my right to be here, too.” \[[The New York _Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/sports/football/stanford-football-rape-accusation.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&%5Fr=0)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4619608/stanford-football-sexual-assault/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4619608/stanford-football-sexual-assault/"},"headline":"A Stanford Football Player Accused of Sexual Assault Remains on the Team","datePublished":"2016-12-29T17:07:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:15.878Z","description":"Even though a majority found him culpable","url":"https://time.com/4619608/stanford-football-sexual-assault/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a0020d907f453b0/6988b42b97cdff11536aeff4/stanford-sexual-assault-football.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Cooney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a0020d907f453b0/6988b42b97cdff11536aeff4/stanford-sexual-assault-football.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Colorado v Stanford","caption":"Colorado v Stanford","creditText":"David Madison—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4619608/stanford-football-sexual-assault/","name":"A Stanford Football Player Accused of Sexual Assault Remains on the Team"}}]}] ```