Campus and state police used pepper spray to keep fans who rushed onto the University Stadium field from tearing down the goal posts after the UNM-NMSU football game Saturday.
The UNM police report states that late in the fourth quarter, police received information that fans would try to tear down the stadium's goal posts at the end of the game.
Several officers, including some campus cops, were sent to protect the goal posts before fans could dash onto the field.
Officials from the UNM Police Department did not return phone calls for comment late Wednesday.
The report states that at the end of the game, several hundred people hurried onto both ends of the field and immediately began to charge the officers.
A UNM officer stationed at the north end zone reportedly used his pepper spray as fans charged him, forcing them away from the goal posts.
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According to the officer who filed the UNM police report, one fan ran toward the officers at the north end of the field yelling, "They told us we could do this," and police had to use physical force to push the fan back into the crowd.
Another fan approached police and reportedly said the crowd "just wanted to tear down the goal post and throw it into the Duck Pond," according to the report.
A UNM officer was accidentally hit with pepper spray causing momentary blindness, but there were no other injuries reported during the incident.
Unlike last year's Homecoming game against Utah, fans were unsuccessful in taking down the goal posts.