It remains unclear how long the investigations, which are being conducted on a case-by-case basis, will take. But another student under review was told by Ellison in a personal meeting that he should expect his verdict by November.
The football team, therefore, would be forced to deal with this uncertainty for much of the season, which concludes against Yale on Nov. 17.
“We’ve come together more...and realized that this is the group that we’ve got, and we have to make the best of it,” one of the players said. “If we can’t, then it’s going to be a long season.”
—Jacob D. H. Feldman contributed to the reporting of this article.
—Staff writer Alexander Koenig can be reached at akoenig@college.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Robert S. Samuels can be reached at robertsamuels@college.harvard.edu.