Police kick entire student section out of college football game
One of the more unusual sights happened on Saturday at a college football game. An entire student section was ejected by police after a clear violation happened in the stadium.
In the Memphis-SMU game, the SMU crowd on the left side of the end zone hill at Gerald J. Ford Stadium was a large group of mostly students, and they weren’t wearing masks, or social distancing, the Dallas Morning News reported.
This is the second time SMU has had an issue with this kind of violation.
It was addressed in a Tuesday public statement by athletic director Rick Hart.
“The majority of fans in the stadium behaved responsibly and were socially-distanced and masked,” Hart wrote. “That said, we will be working to adjust the behavior of a small subsection of fans who did not follow our pledge to protect, which was sent to all ticketholders.”
SMU’s policy is that up to 1,000 students were permitted in the student section and on the lawn. It appeared that there were more than that in the stadium.
More in this story of why SMU students were kicked out of Gerald J. Ford Stadium today.
Though this @SmileyPool photo says it all, too.https://t.co/0rltmWIpAi pic.twitter.com/E2bd2o2fAd— Sam Blum (@SamBlum3) October 3, 2020