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A Texas school district has suspended two football players from the team after one of them ran into the back of a referee watching a play and the other dove into the official, the district’s athletic director said Sunday.
Northside Independent School District athletic director Stan Laing said that the players had been suspended because of the incident Friday, which he called “disturbing” and “inexcusable.”
Video showed the referee watching the play, and his head snapping back when he is leveled from behind. The other player then dove on top of him. The team from John Jay High School in San Antonio was playing Marble Falls High School in Marble Falls, located about 90 miles north of San Antonio.
Before the referee was hit, two Jay players had been ejected on separate plays.
Pascual Gonzalez, a spokesman for the Northside Independent School District, said that the district would hear from game officials, coaches and students during an upcoming due process hearing.
“It is not the good sportsmanlike behavior that we teach students,” he said.
Marble Falls coach Matt Green said John Jay coach Gary Gutierrez apologised after the game.
“I’ve coached 14 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Green told the San Antonio Express-News.
The referee was “very upset” and “wanting to press charges,” Austin Football Officials Association secretary Wayne Elliott said.
Elliott said he was seeking guidance from the state officials association, adding, “the first thing we want is that those two kids never play football again.”
He declined to release the referee’s name.


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A Texas school district has suspended two football players from the team after one of them ran into the back of a referee watching a play and the other dove into the official, the district’s athletic director said Sunday
