Coaches Otton, Morgan match up at grid classic

Saturday’s Earl Barden All-Star Classic football game at Yakima, featuring senior grads in the state 2B through 2A divisions, had a Colfax flavor in the coaching department with Mike Morgan of Colfax heading the East Side team and Sid Otton heading the West side team.

Otton is the veteran coach at Tumwater who won the 2A title game last December at the Tacoma Dome with a 34-14 crush of ArchBishop Murphy.

Before his long career at Tumwater, Otton made a coaching stop at Colfax where he led the Bulldogs to their to an AP state title in 1971, the school’s first. That dates back to before the WIAA...