Liberty University dropped a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association this month, one day after an N.C.A.A. committee clarified its new rules against unsportsmanlike conduct to insure that they do not forbid prayer on the football field.
The university, football coach Sam Rutigliano, and four players sued the N.C.A.A. two days before Liberty’s opening game. They said new rules barring players from celebrating excessively, which took effect this fall, would restrict their constitutional right to religious expression through prayer.
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