West Point rocked by football recruiting scandal

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Alcohol, women, and cash; it's all part of a major scandal rocking the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

There are shocking details about how Army football players tried to lure high school recruits. Twenty cadets treated 14 high school players to a wild weekend of partying and underage drinking; an annual tradition, but also a violation of NCAA rules and the military academy's disciplinary code.

Tom Roeder, senor military reporter with The Gazette in Colorado Springs, broke the story. He says the group of cadets took the recruits to a bowling alley that's known for tolerating underage drinking.

"Everybody ordered a bunch of beer with the money from the football team," he said.

West Point never went public with the incident, but it did self-report the recruiting violations to the NCAA.

The academy says it's punished the 20 cadets involved. The Gazette reports that that includes starting quarterback Angel Santiago.

"These cadets are members of the military, they are on the payroll," Roeder said. "And they also agree to live under the uniform code of military justice."

And there's more.

The Gazette claims to have obtained a West Point internal report; a portion of which it shared with ABC News.

This report indicates that there was a separate incident in February, where a lieutenant colonel asked female athletes attending West Point to be dinner dates for recruits. Telling at least one cadet, "We want recruits to see that there are pretty girls that go here and there are not just masculine women who attend West Point."

West Point's superintendent denies there were arranged dinner dates.