The National Collegiate Athletic Assn. has ended...

The National Collegiate Athletic Assn. has ended its one-year probation of the Tennessee football program after investigating charges in a Sport magazine article of widespread rules violations.

The NCAA put the Knoxville, Tenn., school on a one-year probation in October of 1986, primarily for allowing boosters to provide players with money and cars. The probation was extended in October of 1987 after the article appeared in Sport, alleging that coaches had covered up rules violations during the university’s original in-house investigation of the 1986 charges.

The NCAA said when it extended the probation it would investigate all charges contained in the article, including that coaches helped players sell their tickets to football games.

Tennessee athletic director Doug Dickey announced the end of the probation. He provided a letter from the NCAA that said the NCAA found “the unnamed source of the public charges of a cover-up, but the individual declined to make similar statements to the NCAA, even on a confidential basis.”