Officials from Seton Catholic and Stevenson high schools are looking into an incident on video from last Friday’s football game — and now have gotten the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association involved.
The video appears to show a Seton assistant coach knocking down a Stevenson player after the player walked into the coach leading with his helmet.
The incident came during the fourth quarter of Seton’s 59-0 victory at its home field. Multiple video angles obtained by The Columbian show a Seton coach — identified by the school as assistant coach Rick Devereux — allegedly knocked down a Stevenson player following a punt-return tackle on Seton’s Teddy Wieczorek out of bounds on Seton’s sideline. The same clip shows the Stevenson player’s helmet appearing to make contact with Devereux’s chest before the player was knocked to the turf.
Officials are seen throwing flags on the play. Seton athletic director Phil Kent said Monday that Devereux voluntarily left the field shortly after the play and was not ejected by the game’s officiating crew.
