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DATE: Tuesday, November 26, 1996             TAG: 9611260088
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 

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Tech players trial dates set

Seven Virginia Tech football players and one former player indicted this month on charges stemming from an August brawl received trial dates in Montgomery County Circuit Court on Monday. Another player charged with felony abduction in a separate incident also learned his trial date. Each will be tried separately between late January and mid-April. For details, see today's Virginia section.

Game traffic? Hoo's worried?

Hokies, Hoos and hordes of holiday shoppers should turn the U.S. 460-Peppers Ferry Road area into a sight to behold Friday as 80,000 people are expected to pass through the day of the big Virginia Tech-University of Virginia football game. For more information about how highway officials are planning to deal with the coming conundrum, see today's Virginia section.

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