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Suspension Lifted for Wagner Football Team but Season Opener Postponed

By Nicholas Rizzi | September 4, 2015 5:45pm
 Officials lifted the ban on Susan E. Wagner High School's football tea, but still postponed their season opener.
Officials lifted the ban on Susan E. Wagner High School's football tea, but still postponed their season opener.
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EMERSON HILL — Officials lifted the suspension of the Susan E. Wagner High School football team on Friday, but their season opener against Port Richmond Saturday will still be postponed.

Principal Gary Giordano wrote in a letter posted to the school's website that the varsity and junior varsity teams could resume practices, meetings and games while the school continued to investigate allegations of hazing at an upstate football camp.

"The investigation is continuing and if additional allegations are shared with the school administration, appropriate action will be taken," Girodano wrote.

"Our administration will add additional supervision for all practices, meetings and games until the conclusion of the investigation."

Giordano also wrote that a second volunteer coach has been suspended during the investigation into "student misconduct" by members of the Wagner Falcons team at a football camp in Copake, located in Columbia County, last week.

While the school did not detail the alleged instances of hazing at the camp, a parent told WABC his son said students shot at younger players with a BB gun, hit them with socks filled with powder while they showered, sat on their faces and drew phallic symbols on them while they slept.

"These kids know when the coaches go to sleep — it's on," the father, who did not give his name, told WABC. "It's time to get busy. Let's go do what we got to do."