These players are fumbling on the field and in the classroom.

The Midwood High School varsity football team – a historically successful team with multiple championship wins and NFL alums under its belt – was forced to forfeit multiple games after a group of players was benched mid-season due to bad grades.

The Midwood Hornets retroactively forfeited two games – against Midwood’s James Madison and Ozone Park’s John Adams high schools – on Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, respectively, after it was revealed the team didn’t have at least 18 eligible players on the field at the time, according to Public School Athletic League records.

“Every student-athlete in New York City Public Schools is first and foremost a student, and academics provide endless pathways to lifelong success,” a NYC Department of

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