The NCAA and the widow of a former Texas Longhorns football player reached an undisclosed settlement Friday on the third day of a civil trial in Dallas, in which the widow's attorneys argued the NCAA was responsible for his brain injuries and death more than four decades after he played for the Longhorns.
Debra Hardin-Ploetz sued the NCAA for negligence and wrongful death in in January 2017, more than a year after her husband, Greg Ploetz, died from brain injuries in May 2015.
Greg Ploetz, who played on the Longhorns' 1969 national championship, was 66.