Dartmouth, Holy Cross Fought After Game

Miami and Florida International weren’t the only teams involved in a brawl on Saturday. Players from Dartmouth and Holy Cross fought at the end of their game when the teams lined up for handshakes.

The fighting started on Dartmouth’s Memorial Field in Hanover, N.H., after Holy Cross won, 24-21.

After Holy Cross players celebrated atop the Dartmouth “D” painted on the field, fights broke out between players on the Division I-AA teams.

Witnesses said some players were thrown to the ground and kicked. Coaches, campus security and Hanover police broke it up.

Dartmouth players who threw punches instead of shaking hands at the end of the game may face discipline or arrest, college and police officials said.

“What we observed was a lot of pushing, shoving, some punching, some kicking when people were on the ground,” Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone said.

“We would break up one group, then another group would flare up. We’d get in the middle of that and another group would flare up.”

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Shaking her fist for emphasis, Miami President Donna Shalala said that sanctions levied against 13 players for their role in a sideline-clearing brawl were fair, justified and strong enough to satisfy the university.

All that, though, came with one big caveat: Miami athletes simply can never fight again, she said.

“This university will be firm and punish people who do bad things,” Shalala said. “But we will not throw any student under the bus for instant restoration of our image or our reputation. I will not hang them in a public square. I will not eliminate their participation at the university. I will not take away their scholarships.”

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Stanford quarterback Trent Edwards will sit out the rest of his senior season with a broken right foot, dealing the Cardinal its biggest setback yet in an injury-plagued winless campaign.

Edwards was injured early in Stanford’s 20-7 loss Saturday to Arizona that sent the Cardinal, 0-7 overall and 0-4 in the Pacific 10 Conference, to its worst start since 1960.

Backup T.C. Ostrander struggled before injuring his knee on the Cardinal’s final play against Arizona. But Ostrander should be healthy enough to play Saturday against Arizona State.

Redshirt freshman Tavita Pritchard will back up Ostrander.

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Navy senior quarterback Brian Hampton suffered torn ligaments in his left knee in the first quarter of a 34-0 loss to No. 19 Rutgers on Saturday. He is out for the season and faces a rehabilitation of almost a year.... Boston College walk-on Steve Aponavicius will kick field goals and extra points even though suspended starter Ryan Ohliger will be reinstated for Saturday’s game against Florida State.