After being off and on again as late as this past week, the Dawson Dragons are less than a week away from bringing high school football back to Welch.
“It’s been a long and crooked road at times but right now we’re as excited as anything about just seeing our high school guys back out there again,” Dawson Coach John Hodges said.
Dawson’s junior high football team kicked off its season Thursday at Welch, getting shut out by the Wellman-Union Wildcats, 46-0. That game was stopped midway through the fourth quarter on six-man’s 45-point rule.
“Our young guys had that deer-in-the-headlights look. We ...