4 Arrested After Fight at Raritan-Lincoln Football Game

Kean University - Four people were arrested after the Raritan High School-Lincoln High School championship football game Saturday night at Kean University, a university police lieutenant told Patch.

After the game, which Raritan won in dramatic fashion in the last 10 seconds, there was a disturbance in the Lincoln stands, Lt. Michael Gorman, Operations Commander of the Kean University Police, said. Multiple officers responded and police were able to clear the stands without any arrests needing to be made.

However, shortly after that incident, several smaller physical altercations erupted outside the stadium as the team buses were being loaded, Gorman said. Four people were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

“It was a large group that broke into a physical altercation as a result of a verbal altercation, as best as we could tell,” said Gorman Monday.

All four arrested were from Jersey City and were not part of the football team, he said.

That wasn’t the only fight during this past weekend’s high school football championships: A brawl between adults and students broke out at the Brick vs. Jackson championship game Saturday at Rutgers. Watch a video of the melee here. Several parents allegedly punched and assaulted students.