Case Against Players Dropped
The owners of a nightclub allegedly vandalized by bat-wielding Marshall University football players last weekend will not press charges against the men, authorities said today.
“They told us they’ve made arrangements with the school,” Chief Deputy C. A. Adams of the Cabell County Sheriff’s Department said. “We’ve closed the case.”
More than 20 men, many of them Marshall football players, forced their way into DeSoto’s nightclub early Saturday and used sticks and bats to smash tables, chairs and the bar’s namesake, a 1956 DeSoto, after one of them was ejected from the club, deputies said.
Adams said the nightclub manager had reached an agreement with Marshall Athletic Director Lee Moon under which the players involved, including two starters on last year’s team, would lose their football scholarships and make restitution for more than $2,500 in damages to the club.
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