‘Degrading, dehumanizing, embarrassing:’ former Northwestern football player first to open up about alleged hazing ahead of planned lawsuit
Fitzgerald was at first issued a two-week suspension, then fired altogether after the Daily Northwestern’s story was published.Yates and his attorneys were adamant that the culture of hazing went beyond any one person or administrator.
Then-Northwestern football player Lloyd Yates takes a family photo with mom, Dr. Isaure Yates, and brother Tilford Yates in 2016.Training camp in Wisconsin started not long after he graduated from high school, he said. Before he even got to camp, he already had heard “horror stories” about what might happen there.
“We would get ambushed by you know, 10 different guys, and then they would come hold you down,” he said. “They would put you in the doggy-style position and proceed to dry-hump you. Guys would take turns, and it’s just a very degrading, dehumanizing, embarrassing act.” As a freshman quarterback, Yates said, he had to do a quarterback-center exchange – which requires particularly close contact – naked.
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