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THIS PAGE | E-MAIL THIS PAGE Wednesday, October 21, 1998 Prairie View A&M makes appeal in closed
meeting to SWAC NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Prairie View A&M University officials
met with Southwestern Athletic Conference officials here Tuesday
to discuss a fight between the Southern University and Prairie
View marching bands at a Sept. 19 football game. The brawl led SWAC leaders to level a two-game suspension of
the Prairie View band. The band defied the suspension by playing
at halftime during a Sept. 26 game with Grambling State. That
prompted SWAC Commissioner Rudy Washington to suspend Prairie
View from all SWAC athletic competition, but the conference later
backed off that penalty pending further review. Tuesday's meeting at the Louisiana Superdome was closed to
the public. Associate SWAC Commissioner Lonza Hardy said he would
decline comment on the hearing until a written report came out,
which could take up to four days. Prairie View repeatedly has cited its football contract with
Grambling for its apparent defiance of the band suspension. A
copy of the contract, obtained by The Associated Press under the
Texas Open Records Act, clearly states Prairie View could have
faced an $80,000 penalty if its band failed to perform.
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