SAN ANTONIO -- Hours after Trinity University of Texas won a place in the NCAA Division III football championship game, its quarterback was arrested and charged with public intoxication.

Roy Hampton, who was named offensive player of the year for 2002 by both the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference and the south region, was arrested in Sunday's early hours on San Antonio's River Walk.

James Hill, a spokesman for the university's athletic department, confirmed the arrest Monday. He said the school had yet to decide Hampton's status for the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, which determines the Division III champion.

Hampton, a 23-year-old senior, "tried to grab (the officer's) arm,'' and "had a strong smell of intoxicants on his breath, bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and was unsteady on his feet,'' according to the police report.

Hampton quarterbacked Trinity (14-0) to a 41-34 victory Saturday afternoon over St. John's (Minn.) that earned the team a trip to the Stagg Bowl in Salem, Va. Trinity will play Mount Union (Ohio), which is unbeaten in 13 games and has won 95 of its last 96 games.

Hampton leads NCAA Division III in pass efficiency (184.86). He has 43 touchdown passes and has thrown for more than 4,000 yards.

Officials in the Trinity athletic department said the university is still investigating, the San Antonio Express-News reported in Monday's editions. Officials said the punishment, if any, Hampton might receive "would be pure speculation.''

Trinity coach Steve Mohr would not comment Sunday on the arrest.

Hampton did not return calls from the Express-News for comment, the newspaper reported.

Hampton's teammates declined to comment about the incident.

Gary Ihfe, a senior offensive lineman who played at Clark, said that the team's focus Sunday was solely on Mount Union and that Hampton's arrest "was not brought up in our general meeting.''

Hampton and three other students were accused in October 2001 of breaking into a student's off-campus apartment. Initially, the four students were given a one-year suspension, but school officials reviewed the case and allowed them the option to resume classes in August. Hampton was the only one of the students to resume classes in September.