STUDENT DIES AFTER GOAL POST PULLED DOWN
MORRIS, Minn. -- A 20-year-old University of Minnesota-Morris student was killed Saturday when football fans pulled down a goal post at the end of the Cougars' 34-28 overtime homecoming win over Crown College.
Richard Thomas Rose of Benton City, Wash., was a junior at Minnesota-Morris and a member of the men's basketball team, the school said. Rose was pronounced dead at a hospital after attempts to revive him on the field failed, Minnesota-Morris Chancellor Sam Schuman said.
"I think the presumption is that [his] death was caused by [a] blow from the goal post," Schuman told The Associated Press.
Schuman said students were "understandably quite upset." "He was a popular young man, and I think students are shocked and in a very deep state of grief," Schuman said.
He said the school will offer counseling to students, staff and faculty. No one else was hurt. An autopsy will be conducted.
Minnesota-Morris is a public liberal arts school of about 1,700 students in west-central Minnesota, about 135 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
Richard Thomas Rose of Benton City, Wash., was a junior at Minnesota-Morris and a member of the men's basketball team, the school said. Rose was pronounced dead at a hospital after attempts to revive him on the field failed, Minnesota-Morris Chancellor Sam Schuman said.
"I think the presumption is that [his] death was caused by [a] blow from the goal post," Schuman told The Associated Press.
Schuman said students were "understandably quite upset." "He was a popular young man, and I think students are shocked and in a very deep state of grief," Schuman said.
He said the school will offer counseling to students, staff and faculty. No one else was hurt. An autopsy will be conducted.
Minnesota-Morris is a public liberal arts school of about 1,700 students in west-central Minnesota, about 135 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
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