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Fight leaves Elon football players injured

By Adam Smith / Times-News

Published: Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 00:36 AM.






ELON — Quarterback Mike Quinn and linebacker Jonathan Spain, two of Elon’s most prominent football players, were injured along with another teammate in a fight at a weekend party.

Quinn’s leg was cut and later received seven stitches and Spain was left with bloody knees and the imprint of a glass bottle on his back, according to Elon police, in the fight that apparently involved a number of people, including reserve defensive back Hatchel Linens and former backup quarterback Tyler Smith.

The police report from 2:29 a.m. Sunday morning, hours after the Phoenix finished its spring football game, reads as if a brawl scene erupted with a group of unidentified male suspects at the apartment shared by Quinn and Spain on West College Avenue.

Linens suffered a broken pinky finger and fractured hand from punching one of the suspects, described in the police report as black males who don’t attend Elon.

Quinn, the Southern Conference’s third-ranked passer last season, was standing with his jeans around his ankles in the living room when officer James Turney arrived. Quinn had a triangular-shaped gash in his upper thigh. His jeans had been slashed where the cut occurred. He was treated at Alamance Regional Medical Center.

New Elon football coach Rich Skrosky indicated that from a team perspective the situation, including any disciplinary action, was being handled internally.

Skrosky otherwise opted not to comment. The university appears to consider the players to be victims.

“Since the incident in question is still under investigation, I am going to refrain from comment,” Skrosky said.

Spain has led Elon in tackles each of the last two seasons. Both he and Quinn will be fifth-year seniors next season, which the Phoenix opens Aug. 30 at Duke.

Several vehicles behind the apartment were damaged during the fight, according to the police report filed by Turney.

The back door of a nearby apartment was knocked inward, the result of two people crashing through the door while fighting, the police report said.

Linens, who will be a junior next season, never has made a tackle in an Elon game.

Smith, once a highly regarded Pennsylvania high school quarterback prospect, had his playing career cut short by chronic shin problems after transferring to Elon from Maryland.


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