LEXINGTON — An internal investigation of the Kentucky football program has uncovered more than three dozen violations of NCAA rules dating to February 1999, school officials said Friday.

        The school's report on the violations was finished this week and submitted to the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday. On Friday, the university's athletic association and board of trustees were briefed on the contents of the 35-page report.

        The report now will be taken up by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions, which will have the final say on any further sanctions or penalties.

        Although officials have said at least twice that some of the violations would be deemed major by the NCAA, neither athletics director Larry Ivy nor assistant athletic director for compliance Sandy Bell would provide specifics.

        “The violations will be designated as major or secondary by the NCAA, and we will not speak for them,” Ms. Bell said Friday.

        Although the investigation did not find that former coach Hal Mumme, who resigned Feb. 6, participated or had any knowledge of any of the violations, the report cited Mr. Mumme for “failure to exercise appropriate control of the football program.”

        The most serious allegations involved former recruiting coordinator and assistant coach Claude Bassett, who was forced to resign in November when Mr. Ivy was presented with evidence that he inappropriately cashed a check from a booster meant for Mr. Mumme's football camp.

        Mr. Bassett later admitted to sending $1,400 in money orders to a Memphis, Tenn., high-school football coach. According to the report, Melrose High School coach Tim Thompson later told Southeastern Conference investigator Bill Sievers that the money was a gift sent in an effort to influence him to send players to Kentucky.

        The report also found that Mr. Bassett:

        • Wrote a paper for a current Kentucky player in February 1999, a move that constitutes academic fraud.

        • Cashed a second $500 check from a booster for his own personal use.

        • Inappropriately paid for lodging and meals for several prospective student-athletes, their parents and high-school coaches on official and unofficial visits.

        Ms. Bell said 17 of the violations involved eight current players, whose names were deleted from the report. All eight have been declared ineligible, but the school will petition for their reinstatement as soon as any appropriate repayment requirements have been fulfilled.

        Neither Mr. Mumme nor Mr. Bassett could immediately be reached Friday by the Associated Press.

        In addition to revealing its findings, the report specified a number of corrective actions and self-imposed penalties the school had instituted in the wake of the investigation.

        Among them were the resignations of Mr. Bassett and Mr. Mumme; the designation and hiring of staff members to keep better administrative watch over the football program and its camps; a reduction in the number of initial scholarships from the normal limit of 25 to 16 in 2002-2003, 18 in 2003-2004 and 22 in 2004-2005; a reduction in the 56 permissible official recruiting visits to 36 in 2001-2002 and 40 in 2002-2003; and a reduction in the number of permissible football coaches to recruit off-campus in a given week from seven to six.

        Mr. Ivy also announced during the briefing that a severance package had been worked out for Mr. Mumme that would pay the former coach $1 million over the next four years. Had Mr. Mumme not resigned, he would have received a total of $4.2 million over the remainder of his contract, and a buyout provision in the contract would have required the school to pay him $2.1 million.

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