Bulldogs roll to Boise State football camp

Thirty Colfax football players are slated to depart Saturday for a five-day session at the Boise State football camp. Coach Mike Morgan and four assistants, Jason Cooper, Craig Culbertson, Phil Morgan and Todd Kinley will accompany the team.

Coach Morgan will depart today to conduct individual passing drills as part of the camp.

Colfax is one of 12 schools invited to participate this year after the camp was reduced to about half its normal size because of remodeling projects which are underway at the Boise State facilities, according to Cooper. As a result of the projects, the number of fields available for the camp have been reduced.

In a normal year, the BSU camp can number 25 teams which bring approximately 1,500 gridders to the Boise practice fields. The facility can offer as many as seven practice fields.

Coach Morgan has been taking teams to the camp for the past 16 years.

The Boise State sessions include skills and drills training. Team play is conducted on three-team rotations with teams alternating for five-play stints on offense and a 10-play segment on defense.

The team sessions in the past have matched the Bulldogs up against a variety of teams from around the northwest. Most of the matchups are against larger teams, and one of the known foes on the Colfax opponent list for this year will be Richland, Cooper said.

The camp also features an evening 7 on 7 passing league which involves points for plays completed. The passing league sessions are conducted without contact and players are not required to wear pads.

Colfax has been tuning up for the Bosie State camp with two weeks of local camp sessions.

The first week involved high school and junior high players. This week on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon sessions were set for third through sixth graders. Those sessions were for skills and drills and didn’t involve contact.

High school players are assisting in conducting the grade school camp. After the grade school sessions, the high school players worn out in full pads.

The Bulldogs are scheduled to depart early Saturday for five days at Boise. They will return to Colfax Wednesday night.

Colfax at present is expecting 37 players to turn out for football when preparation for the NE season begins next August.