HOWELL, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) says Howell High School football team was found in violation of rules after players got a free breakfast after two wins.

Varsity football coach Brian Lewis spent the summer looking for businesses to support the team as restaurants have offered meals to the team in the past and All Star Coney Island offered the team a free breakfast every morning after a win. MHSAA officials say the rulebook includes that athletes cannot be given special treatment and also cannot receive performance based services.

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The MHSAA says as long as the team retroactively pays for the meals, they will not suffer penalties for violating rule 149 B which says, “Prizes or awards to team members or contributions or donations to individuals, organizations, schools or causes which are based upon the athletic performance of individual athletes or school teams in interscholastic athletic events are not permitted under amateur status regulations. This prohibition includes but is not limited to non-symbolic awards or valuable consideration given for victories, championships, scoring (offense), or preventing scoring (defense), margins of victory or margins of defeat, and similar incentives based upon team or individual athletic performance.”