Samoans Bring Down 2nd HS Team in Two Years
There must have been excitement around the school as Stallworth Charter Academy fielded their first football team ever this year. To help fill out the roster, the Stockton, California, school accepted seven transfer students from nearby Franklin High School. Someone at Stallworth either didn’t do their homework, or hoped the school board wouldn’t do theirs, because the seven players had been at the center of a recruiting scandal that had rocked Franklin just last year. Whoops!
The seven players were among a group illegally recruited from American Samoa, whose ineligibility caused Franklin to forfeit 19 victories and receive a four-year playoff ban. Stallworth wishes they had gotten off that easily; the California Interscholastic Federation voted unanimously this week to suspend Stallworth’s entire athletic department for the next two years.
