December 13, 2002

Reading and Rioting

By ERIC HOOVER

Colleges struggle to find ways to prevent the postgame rampages

November was a good month for college-football fans, but a better one for fans of chaos. Students at nearly a dozen colleges celebrated gridiron victories by storming fields, felling goal posts, and breaking bones.

In many cases, the postgame pandemonium spilled into the streets, where windows were shattered and mailboxes toppled. The rowdiest celebrants even set cars ablaze.

While the hooliganism of fans is

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