Photographers denied access to stadium field

CHAMPAIGN – Photographers from four Illinois newspapers were not allowed to take pictures from the field at the Illinois High School Association's state football championships this weekend.

Anthony Holman, assistant executive director for the IHSA, said photographers from the Bloomington Pantagraph, the Springfield State Register, the Arlington Daily Herald and the Crystal Lake Northwest Herald were not given field passes to cover the football championships, but were allowed into the pressbox or stands at the University of Illinois Memorial Stadium.

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