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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) -- Senior University of Wyoming running backs Ivan Harrison and Joseph Harris will miss only one game, instead of the original three announced earlier, because of an unspecified violation of team rules.
Coach Joe Glenn says the two will sit out during the September second game against Utah State.
It was originally announced last spring that Harris and Harrison would miss three games because of the violation.
The university says the switch to a one-game suspension is the result of changes the college has made in its policies on suspending athletes.
The original policy called for an across-the-board, three-game suspension regardless of the sport in which the student-athlete was participating.
Deputy athletics director Barbara Burke says that was not fair to all sports. She says a three-game suspension for a football player who competes in only eleven or 12 contests is a much more severe penalty than a basketball player who is involved in a 28-game season.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APTV-08-03-06 2034MDT
