Harvard cancels men's soccer season after sexist 'scouting report' of women's team

The Harvard men's soccer team will forfeit the remainder of its games after the school's Athletics Director decided to cancel the season following the discovery of a sexist "scouting report."

An investigation by the university uncovered documents produced by the team that contained sexually explicit language and a rating system based on the appearances and sexual appeal of women.

In an email sent to Harvard student athletes, according to Andrew Duehren,C. Ramsey Fahs, and Daphne Thompson of The Harvard Crimson, Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise explained that his decision to cancel the season is a result of the discovery of documents dating back to 2012.

"As a direct result of what Harvard Athletics has learned, we have decided to cancel the remainder of the 2016 men’s soccer season," Scalise said. "The team will forfeit its remaining games and will decline any opportunity to achieve an Ivy League championship or to participate in the NCAA Tournament this year.”

According to The Harvard Crimson, players from the men's 2012 soccer team would - in what would become an annual tradition - contribute to a document on Google Groups in which they "assessed and evaluated freshmen recruits" from the women's soccer team.

University President Drew G. Faust revealed that members of the soccer team were unwilling to cooperate when initially faced with questions about the documents after the The Harvard Crimson's initial report.

"The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard’s view that both the team's behavior and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to the mutual respect that is a core value of our community," Faust said in a statement.

Along with assigning scores, members from the men's team also came up with hypothetical sexual positions to go along with the positions that each girl played on the soccer team .

Six women mentioned in the document contributed to an op-ed in the University newspaper where they condemned the actions against them. However, the women ended the piece by offering their forgiveness:

"I can offer you my forgiveness, which is - and forever will be - the only part of me that you can ever claim as yours."