Pennsylvania youth football coach suspended following allegations opposing team used racial slurs to players

A Pennsylvania youth football coach has been suspended after the youth league ruled out allegations of the team’s players being called racial slurs during a recent game.

The Big East Youth Football League released a statement to parents late last week that detailed the results of an investigation into the claims.

The alleged verbal dispute occurred during a game between Jeannette and Penn-Trafford. While the league’s board of directors voted against the allegations, representatives from both teams were not allowed to vote.

A recent story from TribLive.com detailed the suspension. Below is an excerpt from the TribLive.com story.

“The findings of the (league) are that none of the allegations are true against Penn-Trafford’s coaches and players, (and) no racial slurs or expletives were confirmed as stated in the original allegations,” the league said in a statement.

Jeannette’s youth head football coach, Tim Moore, and Isaac Guest — a parent from the team who spoke with TribLive earlier this week — were suspended from the league.

“We at the (league) strive to maintain a healthy, family-friendly environment that breeds sportsmanship, ethics and integrity,” the statement read.

Moore, who pulled his players from the game Sunday, declined to comment on the suspension.

A petition against Moore’s suspension gathered nearly 80 signatures by 6:30 p.m. Friday.

Guest maintains that Penn-Trafford’s players used racial slurs against Jeannette.

“I still stand by everything,” he said. “I will always go to bat for my kids, especially on a subject like this. I will go to bat for anyone else’s kids on a subject like this.”

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Guest said he does not know if his four children will continue participating in the Jeannette Youth Sports Association following his suspension.

“I’m a single father. I’m all they got,” he said. “I’m the only one that shows up to their games, so to be banned from supporting my children, that was kind of a shot in the gut.”

To read the full story from TribLive.com about the Pennsylvania youth football league, click here.