[Vision2020] AP: "Football Players Assault Quarterback"

[thansen@moscow.com]

Thank you, Mr. Spambler, for pointing out that we football fans here in the 
Palouse are far more mature than those illustrated below.

Thank you for your unwritten and unspoken words of support.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



> Pa. H.S. Suspends 4 Athletes Over Assault
> Pa. High School Suspends Four Football Players in Alleged Assault of Teammate
> 
> The Associated Press
> 
> 
> WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Sept. 26 — A high school quarterback said four teammates 
attacked him
and left him with a broken jaw over his performance during a junior varsity 
game,
authorities said. 
> Four players were kicked off the Lake-Lehman High School football team and 
suspended from
school for their alleged roles in the assault, School Board member Jim Mahon 
said.
> 
> Adam Harris, a 15-year-old sophomore quarterback, said he was changing 
clothes after
practice Wednesday when the players taped him to a chair and rubbed a pain-
relieving
ointment on his face. The boys were pushing the chair when it got stuck and 
flipped,
sending him face-first to the floor.
> 
> 
> 
> Police and prosecutors were investigating.
> 
> Harris said he believed he was attacked because he had thrown several 
interceptions in a
game Monday.
> 
> "They told me this is what happens when you throw interceptions," Harris 
said. "Those were
their exact words."
> 
> Harris and his mother wouldn't identify the players.
> 
> Luzerne County District Attorney David Lupas said a county detective was 
assisting in the
police investigation.
> 
> "This matter is being treated very seriously," he said.
> 
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