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Cool breeze greets Jaguars in return to practice
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Advocate sportswriter
-->Football weather greeted Southern's first football practice of the season Friday morning.
Temps in the 70s. Caressing breezes. A cloudless, Columbia blue sky.
"It feels great out here," quarterback Thomas Ricks said. "We were blessed."
In rare conditions, more like an October afternoon and certainly a far cry from the usually suffocating mid-August Louisiana heat, Southern worked through 15 periods, concentrating mostly on formations and calls. Though the practice was lengthy, the work was relatively light, and there were no fatigue problems.
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Cool breeze greets Jaguars in return to practice
<mdw if exist="email_addy">/stories/081404/sou_sufoot001.shtml
Advocate sportswriter
-->Football weather greeted Southern's first football practice of the season Friday morning.
Temps in the 70s. Caressing breezes. A cloudless, Columbia blue sky.
"It feels great out here," quarterback Thomas Ricks said. "We were blessed."
In rare conditions, more like an October afternoon and certainly a far cry from the usually suffocating mid-August Louisiana heat, Southern worked through 15 periods, concentrating mostly on formations and calls. Though the practice was lengthy, the work was relatively light, and there were no fatigue problems.