The Cheltenham High School football team's season has been canceled following hazing allegations, the Cheltenham School District wrote in a letter to the school community Sunday.

The school district said it needed to cancel the rest of the football season in an effort to deepen the multi-agency investigation into the alleged hazing, Superintendent Dr. Brian Scriven noted in the letter.

It comes just days after the Cheltenham School District temporarily suspended the high school football team's season due to the allegations.

"As a parent, educator, and former coach and student-athlete, I am troubled by this matter on numerous levels," the superintendent wrote in part, condemning hazing and any type of abuse. "This decision is not one that was made lightly."

In the letter obtained by

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