University of Maryland president Wallace Loh said Tuesday he told the family of deceased football player Jordan McNair that the school accepted "legal and moral responsibility for the mistakes that our training staff made on that fateful workout day."
McNair, a sophomore lineman, died in June after being hospitalized following on off-season conditioning workout May 29.
McNair family attorney Billy Murphy said the school waited an hour before calling 911 after McNair collapsed.
A 911 call recording obtained by ESPN shows that at 5:58 p.m., an unidentified man described McNair as "hyperventilating after exercising and unable to control his breath.