WASHINGTON — More than 100 former Ohio State University students have come forward with allegations that a team doctor and professor at the school committed some form of sexual misconduct with them, university officials announced Friday, as the university begins to grapple with the sheer scope of a scandal that continues to grow.

It is the latest in a series of sex abuse scandals that have rattled prominent universities, including the University of Southern California, where more than 50 women have accused a former campus gynecologist of misconduct; Pennsylvania State University, where child sex abuse sent one football coach, Jerry Sandusky, to prison and felled a legend, Joe Paterno; and Michigan State University, which is still contending with the fallout from the predations of a team doctor, Lawrence G. Nassar.

The Nassar scandal first inspired Ohio State athletes to step forward, and since those initial wrestlers went public, other alumni have said they were abused by Dr. Richard H. Strauss from 1979 to 1997.

The scandal has cast a cloud over the university as more former athletes accuse university officials of knowing of the abuse and doing nothing to stop it. Two separate class-action lawsuits were filed this week by five former wrestlers, who said their complaints of being sexually abused during physicals conducted by the doctor were ignored.