
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 23, 1991                   TAG: 9103230195
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
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JUDGE: NFL MUST PAY 1,100 PLAYERS

About 1,100 present and former NFL players are owed an average of $13,000 each by their teams because of league actions during the 1987 strike, a National Labor Relations Board judge in Washington has ruled.

The ruling held that the owners discriminated against players who struck by refusing to let them play in games on the weekend of Oct. 18, 1987. The players had agreed to return from their 24-day walkout that was unsuccessful in bringing them the total free agency they sought. The judge ruled they are entitled to that week's play plus incentives, a total estimated between $22 million and $25 million.

\ In Huntington, W.Va., architects of Marshall University's new $30 million football stadium will equip the arena's restrooms to provide hot water in time for football season.

Rosser Fabrap of Atlanta, which had erroneously left 2,000 seats out of the original plans for the stadium, also neglected to include plans for hot water in the restrooms, officials said.

by CNB