Array of objects not keeping set values between for each loops - c++-cli

Question

I am doing an assignment for school and have been stuck for the last few days, with a problem that I'm sure I have created myself. were supposed to be making one of three different dice games I chose one called LCR. I have most of the logic for the program finished I'm just having a problem with the array of objects I'm creating when the game starts (user defined number). For some reason when I initialize all the objects in the array with a for each loop I can set and get all the different parts of the object but once the loop is exited all the object information is lost. I, unfortunately, have to use CLI in this program because of another requirement. any help with this problem would be appreciated.
Here is the code that is giving me the problem.
System::Array^ players = System::Array::CreateInstance(Player::typeid, numberOfPlayers);
for each(Player^ p in players){
p = gcnew Player;
tempNameAsString = tempNameAsNumber.ToString();
p->setName(tempNameAsString);
}
con.writeStringToConsole("rolling dice \n");
for each(Player^ p in players){
p->setDice(rollAllDice(3, 6, 1));
//con.writeStringToConsole("player : ");
//con.writeStringToConsole(p->getName());
con.writeStringToConsole("rolled : ");
con.writeVectorToConsole(translateDice(p->getDice()), " , ");
con.writeStringToConsole("\n");
}
for each(Player^ players in players){
con.writeVectorToConsole((players)->getDice(), " ,");
con.writeStringToConsole("\n");
}
If I dont comment out the line
//con.writeStringToConsole(p->getName());
I get the error
An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in IT 312 LCR Dice Game.exe
here is the output when I do comment out the line
How many players are there?: 10
creating players
rolling dice
rolled : * , * , * ,
rolled : C , * , * ,
rolled : * , C , R ,
rolled : * , * , C ,
rolled : C , * , * ,
rolled : * , * , * ,
rolled : L , L , * ,
rolled : * , R , * ,
rolled : * , * , L ,
rolled : C , * , * ,
For some reason if I try to accsess the player objects again I only get the
last objects rolled dice.
3 ,6 ,4 ,
3 ,6 ,4 ,
3 ,6 ,4 ,
3 ,6 ,4 ,
3 ,6 ,4 ,
3 ,6 ,4 ,
3 ,6 ,4 ,
3 ,6 ,4 ,
3 ,6 ,4 ,
3 ,6 ,4 ,
Please let me know if im doing something stupid.
Thanks for any help.