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Article: FIGHTING MAD | POOR PLAY ON FIELD, ACTIONS OF HOSTILE FANS TAKE FUN OUT OF GAME | SEMI-PRO FOOTBALL: ORLAND FORCE 39, LAKE COUNTY CHIEFS 12
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- The News-Sun - Waukegan (IL)
- Article date:
- August 17, 1998
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NORTH CHICAGO -- If the Lake County Chiefs football players had gone after the Orland Force with the same intensity as they did going into the stands after fans, the outcome might have been different.
As it was, the Force pummelled the host Chiefs 39-12 in a wild Chicagoland Football League game.
Each team is now 1-1 in the league.
One of the oddities of Sunday's game occurred late in the third quarter when players on the Lake County Chiefs bench charged the stands while Orland was scoring a touchdown on the field.
Chief players and coaches were apparently upset with some of the remarks from the fans in the crowd of about 100. Attempts by the Lake County players to defend themselves ...