Football fantasy: Colleges add sports to bring men, but it doesn’t always work | News Channel 3-12

Football fantasy: Colleges add sports to bring men, but it doesn’t always work | News Channel 3-12

Miles MacClure for The Hechinger Report   SALEM, Va. — On a hot and humid August morning in this southwestern Virginia town, football training camp is in full swing at Roanoke College. Players cheer as a receiver makes a leaping one-handed catch, and linemen sweat through blocking drills. Practice hums along like a well-oiled machine — yet this is the first day this team has practiced, ever. In fact, it’s the first day of practice for a Roanoke …