Chaz Cervino was in a math class Thursday morning at Hofstra University when he got an emergency text message telling him to report to Margiotta Field House.When he finally arrived, all of the players on the football team were already assembled outside.
“A lot of the guys were crying,” said Cervino, a redshirt sophomore wide receiver from Wayne, N.J.
The Pride had been informed that the board of trustees voted unanimously Wednesday night to shut down the football program, which had been in existence since the school’s founding in 1937.
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