Defensive standout Clive Lowe
Photo by: R. Dean Hendrickson
Bobcats by the Numbers: 42
7/18/2013 12:00:00 PM | Football
Another slew of tremendous defensive players highlight #42
Every day we look at players who donned the jersey number corresponding to the number of days until the Bobcats open the 2013 season on August 29 against Monmouth. The list of MSU football players by the jersey number is based on preseason rosters. The set of available rosters is complete from 1946-81 and '83-present. Only the 1926-27, 1934, 1937 and 1941 rosters are available in the pre-WWII years. Corrections, additions, or rosters that fill out the set are welcome to blamberty@msubobcats.com.
#42
Trevan Timmer, DB: Trevan Timmer chose jersey number 42, the move gained nodding approval from many whose devotion to the Bobcats is measured in decades rather than years. Trevan's dad Kirk wore #42 during a fine career in the 1980s, most noteworthy for leading the 1984 National Championship team in tackles as a sophomore linebacker. Trevan joins his brother Trace in the Bobcat program, building on one a great family tradition, and is a physical safety prospect with the prospect of growing into the linebacker position.
Spotlight Player: Clive Lowe was a great story when he arrived at MSU, but it became apparent very quickly that he was much more than that. Lowe was a tremendous player and an even better person, one of the most popular Bobcats in the mid-2000s. In fact, word is that there is at least one teddy bear in Bozeman that bears his name to this day. While the league's coaches inexplicably snubbed him when doling out All-Big Sky honors in 2006, he nonetheless turned in a terrific senior season. Lowe led MSU to an 8-5 campaign which featured the school's first playoff win in over two decades. Lowe's 9.5 tackles-for-loss and five sacks in 2006 speared a tenacious defense, and he logged six tackles, including two for a loss, with a sack and a forced fumble in the playoff win over Furman. He battled injuries during her career, but finished with 26.5 career tackles-for-loss and 12 sacks. Clive Lowe was a really, really good football player on some awfully good Bobcat defenses.
Other #42s of Note: That was a pretty good decade-long run for #42 in the Bobcat football program, starting with Clive Lowe in 2002 and culminating with Clay Bignell's fine 2007 season. Like the Timmers chronicled above, the name Bignell has carried special cache in the Bobcat football program for decades, and at MSU in general for generations. Clay Bignell wore the Blue and Gold as well as anyone. He earned Second Team All-Big Sky honors twice, starting at MSU for three seasons. From the earliest moments of his starting career he was viewed as a coach on the field. Last spring, he became a coach on the coaching staff, returning to MSU as a football intern after a season coaching at UM-Western. Bignell's future as a coach is bright.
Through the Years: Joe Wellington (1926), Dan Mizner (1941), Don Driscoll (1946-49), Jim Mitchell (1950), Neal Egan (1953-55), Jim McLeod (1956), Bob Rudio (1957, '59), Kip Croskrey (1960), Terry Meo (1961), Bill Coombs (1962-64), Fred Schafer (1965), Jon McElroy (1966-68), Bob Banaugh (1969-71), Steve Dodds (1972-74), Jim Janhunen (1975-78), Kevin Brown (1979), Skip Higgins (1980), Kirk Timmer (1982-86), Jason Hakert (1987-1991), Gary Smith (1992), Lonnie Franklin (1993), Travis Wright (1994-99), Bo Espinoza (2000), Ross Shores (2001), Clive Lowe (2002-06), Clay Bignell (2007-11), AJ Silva (2012)
#42
Trevan Timmer, DB: Trevan Timmer chose jersey number 42, the move gained nodding approval from many whose devotion to the Bobcats is measured in decades rather than years. Trevan's dad Kirk wore #42 during a fine career in the 1980s, most noteworthy for leading the 1984 National Championship team in tackles as a sophomore linebacker. Trevan joins his brother Trace in the Bobcat program, building on one a great family tradition, and is a physical safety prospect with the prospect of growing into the linebacker position.
Spotlight Player: Clive Lowe was a great story when he arrived at MSU, but it became apparent very quickly that he was much more than that. Lowe was a tremendous player and an even better person, one of the most popular Bobcats in the mid-2000s. In fact, word is that there is at least one teddy bear in Bozeman that bears his name to this day. While the league's coaches inexplicably snubbed him when doling out All-Big Sky honors in 2006, he nonetheless turned in a terrific senior season. Lowe led MSU to an 8-5 campaign which featured the school's first playoff win in over two decades. Lowe's 9.5 tackles-for-loss and five sacks in 2006 speared a tenacious defense, and he logged six tackles, including two for a loss, with a sack and a forced fumble in the playoff win over Furman. He battled injuries during her career, but finished with 26.5 career tackles-for-loss and 12 sacks. Clive Lowe was a really, really good football player on some awfully good Bobcat defenses.
Other #42s of Note: That was a pretty good decade-long run for #42 in the Bobcat football program, starting with Clive Lowe in 2002 and culminating with Clay Bignell's fine 2007 season. Like the Timmers chronicled above, the name Bignell has carried special cache in the Bobcat football program for decades, and at MSU in general for generations. Clay Bignell wore the Blue and Gold as well as anyone. He earned Second Team All-Big Sky honors twice, starting at MSU for three seasons. From the earliest moments of his starting career he was viewed as a coach on the field. Last spring, he became a coach on the coaching staff, returning to MSU as a football intern after a season coaching at UM-Western. Bignell's future as a coach is bright.
Through the Years: Joe Wellington (1926), Dan Mizner (1941), Don Driscoll (1946-49), Jim Mitchell (1950), Neal Egan (1953-55), Jim McLeod (1956), Bob Rudio (1957, '59), Kip Croskrey (1960), Terry Meo (1961), Bill Coombs (1962-64), Fred Schafer (1965), Jon McElroy (1966-68), Bob Banaugh (1969-71), Steve Dodds (1972-74), Jim Janhunen (1975-78), Kevin Brown (1979), Skip Higgins (1980), Kirk Timmer (1982-86), Jason Hakert (1987-1991), Gary Smith (1992), Lonnie Franklin (1993), Travis Wright (1994-99), Bo Espinoza (2000), Ross Shores (2001), Clive Lowe (2002-06), Clay Bignell (2007-11), AJ Silva (2012)
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