A former University of Texas football player has filed a class action lawsuit for up to $50 million against the National Collegiate Athletic Association, claiming the “repeated traumatic head impacts” he suffered as a player caused his Alzheimer’s disease.
Julius Whittier, who became the first African-American player on the Texas team in 1969, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in Austin, contending that the NCAA breached its duty to protect college football players by failing to warn them of the risks of head impacts.
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