By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:52 EST, 18 November 2013 | UPDATED: 12:13 EST, 19 November 2013 The president of an upstate New York college has apologized for the rowdy behavior of football fans that led to the arrests of more than two dozen people in central New York. Erik J. Bitterbaum, president of the State University at Cortland, issued the apology a day after a large crowd turned unruly in downtown Cortland. Earlier Saturday, Cortland defeated Ithaca 28-24 in the annual Cortaca Jug game. Scroll down for video Out of control: College students from SUNY Cortland parties so hard this weekend they destroyed a neighborhood
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Cheif of police: Good weather and posts on social media may have contributed to destructive crowds
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80 people arrested and 122 charges filed after celebrations of Ithaca-Cortland football game got out of control
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Thousands of people shut down streets, threw bottles and rolled cars over
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