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Last home game sees little crime at Randall

Camp Randall Stadium saw 66 ejections and 33 arrests from a record crowd of 83,184 for Barry Alvarez's final home game as the University of Wisconsin's head football coach Saturday.

According to a UW Police Department press release, UW students accounted for 29 of the ejections and 25 of the arrests.

Compared with UWPD numbers from other home football games, numbers from Saturday are typical.

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UW senior Brad Lewis said he felt the crowd was tame considering it was a later kickoff time.

"Usually the crowd gets a little rowdier the later the game … for two reasons," Lewis said. "The first is that the later kickoff gives us a chance to sleep in a bit and recover from the night before. It also, and more importantly, gives us more time to drink before the game."

UWPD issued 36 citations at the game, 29 for underage drinking and one for possession of intoxicants. Twenty-six people were ejected without receiving a citation for possession of alcohol.

Lewis said he was not surprised to hear the majority of the citations and ejections were due to alcohol.

"It's a three-hour game," Lewis said. "So, if you want to stay warm all game without wearing a winter coat, you either need to get [drunk] before the game or sneak in some hard alcohol to have during the game."

Lewis said although he has never brought alcohol into Camp Randall, he has seen people get away with it. A number of students attempt to sneak in water bottles filled with liquor or carry small flasks, he added.

Transferring liquor into water bottles is an increasing trend in public places, according to police.

During other large-scale events, like Halloween, Madison Police Department Lt. Tom Snyder said tracking down people with open intoxicants is often quite easy.

"It's not very hard to pick them out," Snyder said. "If you see someone wobbling around and reeking of booze, that's the first indication … I'm sure kids have done things like this for the longest time."

According to the release, UWPD also made two detox admissions, adding to UW's No. 1 rank among universities in the category.

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