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Ticket scams, arrests high at football game

tickets: While many fans made it into the game without a problem, between 70 and 80 fans were turned away because of fake tickets.

Ticket scams, arrests high at football game

Officials kept busy Saturday attending to dozens of fans who fell victim to ticket scams, as well as ejecting 43 students from Camp Randall Stadium because of inappropriate or illegal behavior.

According to UW Athletics External Director Justin Doherty, between 75 and 80 tickets people were denied entry to the Nebraska game due to bad tickets.

Doherty said that while taking chances buying tickets from a third party ""doesn't have anything to do with [the athletics department],"" the department ""obviously advises people to be careful because [people] don't always know what [they] are going to get.""

In addition to the increase in ticket scams, police distributed almost twice the amount of citations at Camp Randall than they did on Sept. 1, at the Badgers' night game season opener against University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Police said 77 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium, including 43 students, for underage drinking and possession of alcohol.

UWPD said 36 people were arrested at Saturday night's game, and 26 of those arrested were UW-Madison students.

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Most were arrested for underage drinking.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said considering the amount of people who came to Madison this weekend, Wisconsin fans represented the city well.

""It's typical to see arrests and ejections at Camp Randall,"" Resnick said. ""Overall fans at the game and those who celebrated the victory afterward were very respectful and safe.""

There were 40 citations distributed in total.

 

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