Dion King at a Dartmouth College football practice during the 2017 season on Memorial Field. King, 25, was fired from his assistant coach's position on Tuesday, Oct. 31, after punching out a Harvard Stadium press box window three days earlier. (Valley News - Tris Wykes) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Dion King at a Dartmouth College football practice during the 2017 season on Memorial Field. King, 25, was fired from his assistant coach's position on Tuesday, Oct. 31, after punching out a Harvard Stadium press box window three days earlier. (Valley News - Tris Wykes) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Hanover — Dartmouth College on Tuesday fired Dion King, the football assistant coach who punched out a Harvard Stadium press box window three days earlier.

Sports information director Rick Bender, who on Monday said that King had been put on “administrative leave with pay,” on Tuesday passed along news of King’s termination. Big Green football coach Buddy Teevens announced on Sunday he had suspended King indefinitely.

Dartmouth, 5-2 overall and 2-2 in Ivy League play, has three games remaining, including Saturday’s clash with Cornell.

King, 25, was the team’s defensive quality control coach, a position in which he worked below the nine position coaches. On Saturday, he reacted to what was ruled a fumbled Dartmouth punt by breaking a window in Harvard Stadium’s 37-year-old press box. Bender said a police officer had told him a spectator had been injured by falling glass.

However, Teevens said on Sunday his communication with Harvard officials had yet to show that to be the case.

The coach declined comment when asked if King was the person who knocked a hole in the wall of the home coaches booth at Memorial Stadium during an Oct. 21 loss to visiting Columbia.

The window at Harvard was covered with what appeared to be a tarpaulin taped to the frame. The section of seats below it was cleared of fans and marked off with yellow, plastic tape for the remainder of the Ivy League game, which the Crimson won, 25-22.

King’s action received widespread national and even international play in newspapers and online. The Douglasville, Ga., product played at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., and previously coached at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa.

— Tris Wykes

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The Eagles will face No. 2 Castleton in the NAC title match on Saturday. The Chargers, who are leaving the NAC at the end of the year, had just three losses in the NAC tournament in seven years, but lost twice to Husson in the semifinals by a 1-0 score.