WATCH ABOVE: Two high school football players from San Antonio, Texas have been indefinitely suspended from football and their school after a video shows them purposely tackling a referee. Chris Martinez reports.
MARBLE FALLS, Texas – A San Antonio-area police department is investigating two football players who rammed into a referee during a high school game.
Marble Falls, Texas, police said in a statement Monday there have been no arrests.
The Northside Independent School District is conducting its own investigation into the incident Friday and has suspended the two players from the school and the team.
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Video showed the referee watching the play, and his head snapping back when he is levelled from behind. The other player then dove on top of him. The team from John Jay High School in San Antonio was playing Marble Falls High School in Marble Falls, located about 90 miles north of San Antonio.
The names of the players and the referee have not been released.
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