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By The Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n

The College Football Players Association, an organization advocating for unionization and collective bargaining, announced Monday that Stanford has become the first team to organize a player-led chapter.<\/p>\n

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CFBPA executive director Jason Stahl said the goal is for other Atlantic Coast Conference schools join Stanford in forming chapters. That would create momentum for unionization and the ability for players to bargain with conferences over working conditions.<\/p>\n

Stanford players elected offensive lineman Fisher Anderson and linebacker Ernest Cooper, both redshirt seniors, as their representatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cStanford has been a pioneer and innovator not just in football but as a school in general,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cThis first-ever current player-led chapter at Stanford is just another example of this innovation. We want to be leaders in college football and show other schools how they can create a chapter on their campus because we believe this is the future of college football.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anderson said the CFBPA will play a role in giving players a voice in all aspects of governing college football.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past five years, college football has been rocked back and forth by the waves,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen a CFBPA chapter becomes a reality on every college football team, it would put down an anchor where there isn\u2019t one right now for the sport. The chapters can then become the building blocks for conference-wide collective bargaining agreements, which would bring sustainability, transparency and player protections to a sport in need of all three.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NCAA and conferences have been working with federal legislators on a Senate bill that would grant the NCAA an antitrust exemption to be able to enforce rules such as a salary cap and transfer restrictions. Some athletic directors have suggested collective bargaining as an alternative if federal legislation is not passed, but a number of obstacles related to giving college athletes employee status would have to be cleared.<\/p>\n

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