PROVO, Utah (UPI)--Eight Nego athletes on the University of Texas El Paso track team followed through with their threatened boycott of a triangular meet at Brigham YOung University today.

The ahtletes, including world indoor long jump record holder Bob Beamon, elected to stay at home in protest of alleged racial discrimination at BYU.

Only two Negro athletes on the UTEP squad showed up for practice here Friday afternoon.

UTEP coach Wayne Vandenburge said Friday the eight athletes who are boycotting the emet "will be considered by the athletic department as having voluntarily disassociated themselves with the track tream." He would not say if the eight tracksters would be allowed to rejoin the team at a later date.

The eigth issued a statement Thursday that said tehy would boycott the meet because of BYU's "belief that blacks are inferior and that we are disciples of the devil."

Ernest L. Wilkinson, president of BYU, in a reply to the joint statement, said it was based on "erroneous information and is not true."

Wilkinson added, "we do not discriminate because of race and have Negroes in our student body."

THe two Negroes who did travel with the UTEP team are citizens of the Bahamas.

UTEP is scheduled to enter the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) this year. Vandenberg [sic] said there may be some support of the boycott at the Texas school.

BYU is a member of the WAC.

The athletes who joined Beamon in the boycott were identified as team captain David Morgan, Charles McPherson, Kelly Mybrick Jr., Jose L'Official, Jimmy Love and Levi Portis.