Many of the Army West Point cadets who cheated on a calculus final exam in May are athletes at the school.
West Point officials said in a letter Wednesday that 55 of the 73 students who were caught cheating on the exam this spring were athletes. And among those 55, 24 are or were football players and 17 of those players are still on the team.
Some of the unidentified players caught cheating have played in football games this year because of an October rule change. And it’s possible that players implicated in the cheating scandal could also play on Thursday in the Liberty Bowl when Army takes on West Virginia.