DAYTON — Two University of Dayton football players accused of participating in a March 8 fight that left two fellow students injured pleaded guilty Friday to burglary charges.

Anthony Papp and Matthew Riddle, both 20, have also agreed to testify against their co-defendants, James Vercammen, also a UD football player, and Matthew Livingston, who quit the team in January.

All four defendants were charged with burglary and felonious assault. Under the plea agreement reached Friday, Papp and Riddle pleaded guilty to a bill of information that had the burglary charge, but not the felonious assault.

The four are accused of entering 230 Kiefaber St. and fighting with people there. Police who arrived at the scene about 2:20 a.m. found two injured students there, including one with a broken arm, broken ribs and a concussion.

Attorney James T. Ambrose, representing both Papp and Riddle, filed motions for intervention in lieu of conviction for both. Montgomery county Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman will rule on those motions May 22.

Should Wiseman rule in their favor, the defendants will enter a counseling program. Should they complete treatment and stay out of trouble, their cases will be dismissed.

Both Papp and Riddle testified briefly during Friday's hearing before Wiseman, offering some details about the evening.

Papp said Livingston and another friend came to his house earlier that night beaten up and bloody. Later, a group of friends went to Timothy's Bar and Grill, 1818 Brown St., where Papp said he drank about six beers and Riddle said he drank seven or eight.

The group was walking up Kiefaber when the friend who was with Livingston said 230 Kiefaber was the residence where they had been beaten. Some of the group went on the porch and a fight broke out, with some of the group going inside the house, according to Papp and Riddle's testimony.

Livingston was beating another man when that man ran out of the house. Papp said he chased the man but stopped when a friend called him back.

Papp said he then entered the house, was struck in the head, and started fighting with another man.

Livingston later told Papp that he had used a chair during the attack, Papp said.

"He never explained what he did, but he did say that he threw the chair," Papp said. "He said he threw the chair in the kid's direction."

Riddle testified that he entered the house and saw Livingston and Vercammen inside. Livingston later told him that he hit someone with a chair, but changed his story to throwing a chair, Riddle testified.