Bobcats By the Numbers: #70
6/27/2015 11:26:00 AM | Football
Joel Horn has a chance to rank high on MSU's all-time list at this number
Every day we look at players who donned the jersey number corresponding to the number of days until the Bobcats open the 2015 season on September 3 against Fort Lewis College. 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 will be welcomed enthusiastically via e-mail at: blamberty@msubobcats.com. Complaints about featured players also welcome, but possibly with less enthusiasm.
#70
Joel Horn OL: Joel Horn is a busy dude. As MSU's senior center, Horn manages the team's pass protections and snaps the ball on each scrimmage play, and that all happens before the play begins and he's charged with blocking. Life is much the same for Horn away from football. As a civil engineering who has also done work in the mechanical engineering realm, Horn is one of the most academically-ambitious student-athletes in one of Division I's highest-achieving athletic program in terms of academics. Horn has tamed snapping issues he once dealt with, and his intelligence and physicality make him one of the top centers in the FCS.
Spotlight Player: In an era when Montana State's football team steamrolled teams with a bruising ground game, Jon Borchardt was one of the program's primary steamrollers. He was a fast and physical player who dominated opponents physically early in his career, and often. He enjoyed a long NFL career after leaving Bozeman. But former MSU athletic trainer Chuck Karnop remembers Borchardt for something quite different. An aspiring medical professional before the NFL draft changed his career path, Karnop describes long, quiet conversations about the human body and its anatomical functions. Borchardt was a tremendous student, carrying a GPA better than 3.35 through his course of study in microbiology, but at the end of the day football was his calling card. He was a two-time First Team All-Big Sky selection, earning First Team All-America honors after his senior season.
Through the years: Gene Beekman (1956), Arjay Godston (1957), John Bietenduefel (1959-60), Purnal Whitehead (1966-68), Alan Bone (1969), Kelly Adams (1971), Gary Egerton (1972-73), Jeff Conley (1974), Jon Borchardt (1975-78), Jeff Bedey (1979-80), Mark Baker (1982), Steve Vestman (1983-84), Shawn Stump (1985-89), Travis Savage (1991), Tony Vico (1992), Tom Brinan (1994-95), Greg Kapitzke (1996-97), Jesse Miller (1999), Justin Garrett (2000-01), Chris Haynes (2003), Dominic Sonsini (2005-07), Anthony Patterson (2008), Killian Fitzpatrick (2010), John Weidenaar (2011), Joel Horn (2012-present)
#70
Joel Horn OL: Joel Horn is a busy dude. As MSU's senior center, Horn manages the team's pass protections and snaps the ball on each scrimmage play, and that all happens before the play begins and he's charged with blocking. Life is much the same for Horn away from football. As a civil engineering who has also done work in the mechanical engineering realm, Horn is one of the most academically-ambitious student-athletes in one of Division I's highest-achieving athletic program in terms of academics. Horn has tamed snapping issues he once dealt with, and his intelligence and physicality make him one of the top centers in the FCS.
Spotlight Player: In an era when Montana State's football team steamrolled teams with a bruising ground game, Jon Borchardt was one of the program's primary steamrollers. He was a fast and physical player who dominated opponents physically early in his career, and often. He enjoyed a long NFL career after leaving Bozeman. But former MSU athletic trainer Chuck Karnop remembers Borchardt for something quite different. An aspiring medical professional before the NFL draft changed his career path, Karnop describes long, quiet conversations about the human body and its anatomical functions. Borchardt was a tremendous student, carrying a GPA better than 3.35 through his course of study in microbiology, but at the end of the day football was his calling card. He was a two-time First Team All-Big Sky selection, earning First Team All-America honors after his senior season.
Through the years: Gene Beekman (1956), Arjay Godston (1957), John Bietenduefel (1959-60), Purnal Whitehead (1966-68), Alan Bone (1969), Kelly Adams (1971), Gary Egerton (1972-73), Jeff Conley (1974), Jon Borchardt (1975-78), Jeff Bedey (1979-80), Mark Baker (1982), Steve Vestman (1983-84), Shawn Stump (1985-89), Travis Savage (1991), Tony Vico (1992), Tom Brinan (1994-95), Greg Kapitzke (1996-97), Jesse Miller (1999), Justin Garrett (2000-01), Chris Haynes (2003), Dominic Sonsini (2005-07), Anthony Patterson (2008), Killian Fitzpatrick (2010), John Weidenaar (2011), Joel Horn (2012-present)
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