Mass.: Racist graffiti prompts cancellation of HS football game

[marmar]

A high school football game has been canceled in a suburban town northwest of Boston and the FBI is reportedly investigating after racist graffiti was painted on the side of a player's house.

Lunenburg High School's freshman team had been scheduled to play Oakmont Regional on Friday night before the parents of an eighth grader who plays for the Lunenburg freshman team reported the graffiti to police, who then notified the school, according to reports.

The superintendent of the school district then ruled the game would be indefinitely postponed, local media have reported.

Andrea Brazier, the mother of Isaac Phillips -- who had been granted permission to play for the school's freshman and junior varsity football teams -- told reporters her family awoke Friday morning to see their home's foundation had been spray-painted. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://espn.go.com/boston/story/_/id/9991841/high-school-football-game-canceled-racist-graffiti-surfaces-reports-say

[KamaAina]

1. By "northwest of Boston" they mean "most of the way across the state"

Lunenburg is near Fitchburg in west-central Mass., well outside 495.