| By Bob Weaver
Homecoming Week at Glenville State College had more than football game excitement.
Former WVU football players robbed their local Foodland supermarket.
 West Virginia State Police identified the men as Travis Tyrone Garvin, 25, who played at WVU for two seasons, and Alvoid Wilson Mays, 38, who played NFL football.
Both men are from Bradenton, Florida.
The two men held-up the Glenville Foodland Store Friday night, with their get-a-way attempt foiled by local authorities.
One of the men entered the store at 9:14 p.m. and held two clerks at gunpoint, demanding cash from the register and a safe.
State Police said the man then exited the store with an undisclosed amount of cash and was picked up by another man in a dark colored compact car.
Officers from the Glenville Police Department and State Police received a call that a robbery was taking place.
The escape vehicle was pursued by a Glenville police officer just as it left the store at a shopping mall east of Glenville along West Virginia Route 5.
Officers chased the car east on Route 5, where it crashed into a road bank in the Stouts Mill community.
Both Garvin and Mays fled into the woods. K-9 units and numerous officers searched the area until they were found, while the State Police Crime Scene Team of Elkins processed the store and vehicle for evidence.
The suspects were arraigned in Gilmer County Magistrate Court and assigned $200,000 bonds each. They are currently housed in the Central Regional Jail.
Mays, who also played for WVU, played professional ball for the Redskins, Steelers and other teams.
State Police spokesperson Jay Powers said the money was recovered and returned to the Glenville Foodland.
Former Missouri coach Larry Smith suspended Garvin during his sophomore season in 2000 for violating rules related to failing a drug test.
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