"For the first time, the Bengals beginning next year will hold preseason camp at their own facility.

After months of speculation, the team announced on Friday they would hold training camp at Paul Brown Stadium, ending a 15-season relationship with Georgetown College.

The Bengals relayed the news to Georgetown College officials on Thursday. When the team moved from Wilmington College to Georgetown in 1997, they had a five-year deal, and since then the team and college had worked on a series of one-year deals.

Team president Mike Brown was long an advocate of going to a college campus and holding camp, but due to changes in training camp rules under last year's collective bargaining agreement, a lot of the benefits to training away from home had disappeared.

Under new rules, two-a-day practice sessions have been eliminated and players receive one day off every seven days. Until this past season, the Bengals would normally train for nine straight days and have at least four two-a-days in camp.

"The new rules bring an aspect that the Bengals and Georgetown College must adjust to," Brown said in a statement. "But people who know me know that I will personally miss going away to camp very much. Georgetown is a special place for the Bengals and will remain so."

The Bengals will be the 19th NFL team to move camp to their home facility. Of the four teams in the AFC North, Pittsburgh will be the only one who will train away from home. The Baltimore Ravens recently announced they had ended their association with McDaniel College in Westminster, Md."