Despite the temporary relocation, the Bobcats still won the Big Sky Conference title that season. Search the complete digital archives for all papers in the Pioneer News Group. The Bobcats have won conference titles in eight of the past nine decades and have won multiple conference titles in seven of the last eight decades. Bill Lamberty. Find the COLLEGE-FOOTBALL Montana State Bobcats player roster for this season on FOX Sports. Jones, who moved from linebacker to fullback before the season, moved the Cats into a share of the Big Sky lead with the touchdown. The Bobcats are the reigning Big Sky Conference champions.
Visit ESPN to view the Montana State Bobcats team roster for the current season The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. One Montana State Bobcat has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, this was Jan Stenerud. At the snap, Erhardt took a step back and then fired to his left. With three wins he will move into second place. Football Football: Facebook Football: . The Big Sky era shows Montana with a 28-21 lead. Join us for a March Madness Webinar on Tuesday, March 7 at 8pm ET. Lulay was the quarterback at MSU from 2002-2005 leading the Bobcats to three Big Sky Conference titles and two NCAA Division I-AA playoff appearances. Kyle Sample can be reached at ksample@dailychronicle.com or 582-2690. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Ash has led Montana State to the Big Sky Conference championship and NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs his last two seasons. The game was aired on CBS television and radio. Wgt. The NCAA Western Regional was one of four regionals that led up to the selection of the NCAA College Division champion by poll. He graduated with a 3.91 GPA. Erickson, flanker Ron Bain and running back Paul Schafer lead the comeback as the Bobcats clinch a tie for the Big Sky championshiptheir third straight. He left with school records for career passing yards (10,746-11th in NCAA Division I-AA history), single-season total offense, and total offense in a career. W, 55-7. Montana State linebackers Greg Wilkes (99) and Clete Linebarger (27) pursue Arkansas State's quarterback in a 1-AA quarterfinal in 1984. These additions would increase seating capacity to approximately 24,000. You have permission to edit this article. In 2008 MSU replaced its natural grass playing surface with FieldTurf. Trailing 24-9 in the fourth quarter, Montana State scored 20 points in the last nine minutes and won 29-24 when Schafer, who had 58 carries for 234 yards in the game, dove into the end zone with 12 seconds left. He breaks one tackle, breaks two, he gets outside, continues down the far sidelines, has blockers, cuts back in. Please subscribe to keep reading. Division I Football Championship Subdivision, List of Montana State Bobcats football seasons, Great Falls College Montana State University, List of Washington Redskins starting quarterbacks, List of Baltimore Ravens starting quarterbacks, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, Articles with invalid date parameter in template, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, http://bigskyconf.com/news/2011/4/28/FB_0428110957.aspx, http://www.msubobcats.com/news/2011/12/22/FB_1222115812.aspx?path=football, NCAA Division I FCS (I-AA) National Champions, 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football playoff participants, 2010 NCAA Division I FCS playoff participants, 2011 NCAA Division I FCS playoff participants, 19 (1938, 1946, 1947, 1954, 1956, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1984, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011), [[{{{school}}}|Southeast Missouri State]]. The Bobcats were members of the RMAC from 1917 to 1956, after being an independent from 1897 to 1916. Following that Montana started "The Streak" when it won 16 straight games from 1986 to 2001. He is currently tied for 50th place in wins in NCAA history. Learn more and register, College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com Blog and Articles. Football Football: Facebook Football: Twitter Football: Instagram Football: Tickets Football: Schedule Football: Roster Football: News Basketball Basketball: Facebook Basketball: Twitter Basketball: . The official 2021 Football Roster for the Montana State University Bobcats. Montana has won 22 of the last 26 meetings. Twitter Football: Instagram Football: Schedule Football: Roster Football: News Tennis Tennis: Facebook Tennis: . Year Letter Hgt. You can cancel at any time. I hear more stories that Im glad I didnt hear 30 years ago.
He also had college head coaching stints with the Idaho Vandals, Wyoming Cowboys, Washington State Cougars, Oregon State Beavers and Arizona State Sun Devils. The Montana and Montana State football rivalry, known as "The Brawl of the Wild," is the fourth-oldest rivalry in the FCS. Or write about sports? Both teams play for The Great Divide Trophy. The Brawl of the Wild is the game between MSU and their primary rival; the University of Montana Grizzlies. In 1968, Erickson engineered the greatest comeback in what is considered by many as the most exciting game in the Cat-Griz series. We had to hit bottom and when we did everybody kind of said, This is bigger than me, its bigger than him and I want to win, so what do we have to do?, We never quit. (); :
Liberty, New Mexico State, Sam Houston and Jacksonville . Chronology: Menton Place (1931), Charles Herstrom (1937), George Wallis (1940), Bill Zupan (1941), John Heine (1946-47), Morry Sivertson (1948-49), Dick Newman (1953), Don Edwards (1956), Guy Troisi (1957), Dick Cope (1958), Barton Furry (1959), Bucky May (1960-61), Dave Miller (1963-64), John Cunneen (1965-66), Hans Pidino (1968-69), Roger Crow Bradley threw two interceptions that were returned for touchdowns as the Indians built a 14-0 lead before MSU scored 31 unanswered. Montana State linebackers Greg Wilkes (99) and Clete Linebarger (27) pursue Arkansas State's quarterback in a 1-AA quarterfinal in 1984. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Bignell broke one tackle, then barreled through a defender at the 4 and dove across the goal line.
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Harvey Wylie was elected to the CFL Hall of Fame on May 24, 1980. His 215 wins rank him 17th among active NCAA coaches.
Whenever we were in that coverage they were throwing down about 7 yards and curling. Both schools entered the Big Sky Conference as charter members in 1963 with Montana holding a 42-15-2 series lead. UM takes over at the 20 with speedy receiver Ron Baines at quarterback. The Bobcats won 31-14. Get any of our free daily email newsletters news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. You could see that we were going to be pretty good.. 1988 -- Choteau 19, Shelby 14.
Weve been down 14-0 before this season certainly we werent excited about the way we were down but we didnt panic. American Football Database is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. There are currently three players in the NFL from Montana State. We present them here for purely educational purposes. The championship was the first for the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and the 1956 team is a member of the RMAC Hall of Fame. Prior to Drake he was the head coach at Division III Juniata for nine years. Five Montana State graduates have played in a Super Bowl. Seven light standards were erected around the stadium. . As a true freshman Lulay engineered MSU's 10-7 win over the Grizzlies in Missoula ending UM's 16-game winning streak over the Bobcats and was named the Big Sky Conference's Newcomer of the Year. There were the obligatory How are yous? and How ya beens? but it felt like no time had passed for these men, many of them in their 50s. MSU is one of just two Big Sky Conference schools, along with Boise State, to win a Camellia Bowl game. It was razed in early 1972 and is the site of the Marga Hosaeus Fitness Center, opened in 1973. Rob Ash enters his sixth season as head coach at MSU in 2012. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Scoreboard. The 1987 coaching staff was led by head coach Mike Price. MSU has been in the post-season eleven times, most recently in 2011. Still going, hes inbounds and gets another block. [1] The Bobcats played their home games on campus in Bozeman at Reno H. Sales Stadium . Thats a trademark of these kids, Arnold said after the win. We could see right away that we could score points. :
Early seasons had seven games or less with one season seeing the Grizzlies play just one game. Introductory offer for new subscribers only. There was a problem saving your notification. His 2007 team was 6-5, followed by a 7-5 mark in 2008, 7-4 in 2009, 9-3 in 2010 and 10-3 in 2011. The University of Montana Department of Intercollegiate Athletics promotes its football teams each season with a printed media guide, which outlines current rosters (at time of print), schedules, results, and often included player and coach bios and statistics. Rams quarterback Tom Ehrhardt dropped back, looking for the touchdown that would finally put an end to MSUs string of improbable wins and send 12,367 fans home unfulfilled on an unseasonably warm December 1984 day. 2023 Conference USA college football preview, part 1. We wouldnt quit on each other.. He also ran for 391 yards (8.3 per carry), which was good for 12th in the CFL and was the most by a quarterback., and three touchdowns. 1987 Florida State Seminoles Schedule and Results Previous Year Next Year Record: 11-1 (3rd of 104) ( Schedule & Results ) Rank: 2nd in the Final AP poll Conference: Ind Coach: Bobby Bowden (11-1) Points For: 481 Points/G: 40.1 (2nd of 104) Points Against: 163 Opp Pts/G: 13.6 (7th of 104) SRS: 23.50 (1st of 104) SOS: 5.00 (20th of 104) There were times where he just wouldnt be denied, remembered MSU senior associate athletic director Dan Davies, who was a receivers coach that season. The 2011 Cat-Griz game set a stadium record with an attendance of 20,237. Lulay led Montana State in rushing his senior year with 611 yards. Nov 7 (Sat) 1:00 PM . The 1987 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Montana State University in the Big Sky Conference during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Football
This years Bobcats will don similar uniforms this afternoon against North Dakota in a homecoming celebration of the mythical championship squad. MSU took the lead on a 97-yard interception return for a touchdown by safety Joe Roberts, Jr. Quarterback Kelly Bradley threw for over 300 yards in each playoff game and had eight touchdown passes in the postseason. The RMAC would drop down to the small college division of NCAA football in 1939 and remained there until 1952 when it joined the NAIA. Fellows was talking with a group that included second-string quarterback Greg Andal when Arnold, in a light blue polo, khaki pants and a thin white goatee that replaced the bushy mustache he wore when he was coaching for his job that season, emerged from the MSU athletic offices. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Montana State, behind head coach Dave Arnold, beat Arkansas State 31-14, after falling behind 14-0, in the quarterfinals and Rhode Island 32-20, after trailing 20-12 entering the fourth quarter, in the semifinals. Montana State won the 1976 NCAA Division II championship at the Pioneer Bowl in Wichita Falls, Texas, beating the Akron Zips 24-13 with head coach Sonny Holland at the helm. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round of the AFL's 1966 draft and scored 11 points, including a then-Super Bowl record 48-yard field goal, in Kansas City's 23-7 Super Bowl IV win. They finished the 1976 season with a 12-1 record, with their lone loss coming at Fresno State. Choose wisely! Bradley hit Kelly Davis for a 19-yard touchdown with 1:06 left in the third. Ash has complied a 39-20 (.661) overall record, which represents the third best winning percentage and fourth best win total in school history in the modern era of the sport. Perhaps the most unexpected result came Nov. 17 in Fresno, Calif. Fresno, led by former MSU coach Jim Sweeney, was routing the Cats, 28-7, in the third quarter, a margin so comfortable the entire home coaching staff removed their headsets. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. The guard and center was awarded All-Western All-Star and All-Canadian All-Star honors for seven years, 1975-81. Find out more. Print. Upon the establishment of Division II in 1973, a full playoff system was introduced to determine the national champion. Prior to Drake he was the head coach at Division III Juniata for nine years. Bobcat Stadium is approximately a half mile due south. Rhode Island was lined up 13 yards shy of the end zone and leading Montana State 20-18 with a little more than four minutes remaining in the 1-AA semifinals. It was beginning to appear that everything leading up to that moment was going to be forgotten. The 1987 team posted a 10-3 overall record and tied for first in the Big Sky at 7-1. The playing field ran east-west and had lighting as far back as the 1940s. Visit ESPN to view the Montana State Bobcats team roster for the current season. Follow him on Twitter @kylesample_bdc. After a 7-1 record in conference play, the Wildcats were selected for the then-Division I-AA Playoffs and were sent to take on Big Sky rival Idaho in Moscow. OGDEN - Weber State football will turn the clock back 30 years to honor the 1987 Wildcat football team. OGDEN - Weber State football will turn the clock back 30 years to honor the 1987 Wildcat football team. The official 2014 Football Roster for the Montana State University Bobcats. Bozeman, MT. They finished at 9-0-1. The 'Cats were 1-10 in that stretch against Montana, and were shut out for eight consecutive years. MSU finished the 1926 and 1927 seasons undefeated in RMAC conference games, but was not awarded a conference title in either season.
. 1990, 1991, 1995, 1997-2002 Box 2B (FBC540-2B) Alabama (University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa AL) In their first season under head coach Earle Solomonson, the Bobcats compiled a 110 record (08 against Big Sky opponents) and finished last in the Big Sky.[1]. Montana State: Dave Arnold: 19-6: Louisiana Tech: Charleston, S.C. . Don Haas, Holland and Stenerud are the others. Do you have a blog? After Schafer's touchdown, the Grizzlies nearly spoil things for MSU. The Idaho game in 84 we were down and we came back at Idaho not easy to do. Football History Montana State University Athletics . Montana currently holds The Great Divide Trophy after a 36-10 win in Bozeman in 2011. Do you have a blog? Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Theres coach always coming out of the office, said one of the former players. He led the Eagles to one league title and was 51-36-3. Coach of the Year,Dave Arnold, 2nd season, Kodak Division 1-AA and Football News National Coach of the Year. (); :
In 1956, the Bobcats won a share of the NAIA title at the Aluminum Bowl in Little Rock, Arkansas, playing to a scoreless tie with the Pumas of St. Joseph's College from Rensselaer, Indiana. Behind head coach Jim Sweeney in 1964, Montana State won the NCAA Western Regional College Division Championship, which existed from 1964 to 1972, with a 28-7 win over Sacramento State in what was also known as the Camellia Bowl. Bobcat QB Dennis Erickson is the difference. Stat Crew Roster (FRO) Roster Layout: Choose A Season: Sort By: Montana State University Athletics. From 1963 to 1985 Montana State enjoyed its most successful period of the Cat-Griz rivalry. Print. Among other 2011 upgrades were an 18' x 37' LED video board, two scoreboards and sound system. Hoping to confuse Erhardt, who had already thrown for three touchdowns, defensive coordinator Steve Carson instructed his defense to show blitz before dropping into coverage. UM joined the PCC, after spending 22 years as part of the Northwest Intercollegiate Athletic Association with league members Washington, Oregon, Washington State, Oregon State, Idaho and Wittman College in 1924. The Bobcats finished the 1964 season at 7-4. Main Navigation Menu. University of Montana 1985 Grizzly Football Schedule Date Sept. 7 Opponent Cal-Fullerton Site Missoula #Time 1:30 P.M. Sept. 21 Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 6:00 P.M. Sept. 28 Oct. 5 Oct. 12. Do you have a sports website? Do you have a sports website? The only pre-war regular to play in the Harbor Bowl was Bill Zupan, whose brother Al was among those 'Cat gridders making the ultimate sacrifice. Ash's career overall record entering his 33rd season as a head coach stands at 215-119-5. All rights reserved. In 2011, quarterback Travis Lulay was named the Most Outstanding Player in the Canadian Football League and led the British Columbia Lions to the Grey Cup title garnering the game's Most Valuable Player award in the 34-23 win over Winnipeg. Plus, explore all of your favorite teams' player rosters on FOXSports.com today! Bradley hit leading receiver Joe Bignell, at the 10. Staff Roster Football Coaching Staff Head Football Coach Jerome Souers Full Bio Associate Head Football Coach/Defensive Coordinator Joe O'Brien Full Bio Offensive Coordinator Steve Broussard Full Bio Offensive Run Game Coordinator Timothy Davis Full Bio Special Teams Coordinator/Linebackers Coach Brian Smith Full Bio Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. His overall record at Drake was 125-63-2. It was a football team that taught us that you can never, ever determine your future by preseason or even the first couple games of the season because if you can right yourself from the first week of October on, theres still a national championship waiting for you at the end, said current Idaho State head coach Mike Kramer, who was the Bobcats inside linebackers coach in 84. A native of Iowa who was raised in Bozeman, Gatton enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I and was killed while flying for the French on November 4, 1918, just a week before the Armistice. The new end zone seating holds over 7,200 fans. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited.
Although it would be seven more seasons until Montana State would again win more than it lost, that season helped chart the course into what would become an unbelievably successful period in Montana State's football history as the Bobcats would take 22 of the next 30 games from 1956 to 1985 from the Grizzlies and would win all three of their national championships during that same span. Montana won 12 games to Montana State's 7. In all, 34 points are scored in the final quarter. The team was led by sixth-year head coach Sonny Holland and won the Division II national championship. 1986, 1987, 1994-1997, 1999, 2002 Box 2 (FBC540-2) Akron (University of Akron - Akron OH) 1948, 1952-1958, 1961-63, 1965, 1968, 1971-1973, 1975, 1976, 1984, 1986, 1987 Box 2A (FBC540-2A) Akron (cont.) The official Football news stories archives for the Montana State University Bobcats Before World War II, Montana State football tasted success often, but in small doses. MSU currently has plans to renovate the east grandstand to include matching sky suites of the west grandstand and erect seating in the north end zone.