High School Coach Badly Beaten by Opposing Players

The beating of its high school football coach has prompted the superintendent of Warren County schools to seek the state’s assistance in obtaining a “complete investigation” of the Friday attack.

Warren County Superintendent Dr. Jean Carey said the school system has asked the Georgia attorney general’s office to request a GBI investigation into the after-game fight that seriously injured head football coach David Daniels. No arrests have been made.

Carey said Daniels was attacked after Friday night’s 21-2 victory in Hancock County.

Carey, who witnessed the incident, said Warren County players were locked out of the visiting locker room after the Sparta school’s homecoming game.

A group of more than 30 Hancock players attacked Warren players, said Carey.

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Daniels tried to intervene and was “smashed in the face with a helmet,” said Carey.

Daniels was hospitalized with head injuries and has undergone major reconstructive surgery to his face, including crushed bones above and below his eye.

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