Friday, August 2, 2013

Southern football team takes first step toward season

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  --  There soon will be all sorts of signs that football is back at Southern.

Coach Dawson Odums will be wearing the sweatshirt he sports every August to make sure he sweats as much as his players.

Quarterback Dray Joseph will be throwing darts to Lee Doss on third-down crossing routes.

A crowd of fans — the same usual faces — will be gathered to watch the Jaguars practice.
“In their spot over there by the tree, right there between the Subway and the practice field,” Odums said.
T
he scene Wednesday was the surest sign yet that football is back: droves of burly young men in T-shirts and shorts toting appliances into their Southern dorm rooms.

On the day before they would hit the practice field for the first time, the Jaguars welcomed 95 players who ...

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