Bobcats By the Numbers: #64
6/30/2015 2:13:00 PM | Football
Joey Marinello could be a rising star for the Cats in the offensive line
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.
#64
Joey Marinello, OL: Montana State has a history of reeling in strong offensive linemen from the Land of 10,000 Lakes, and Apple Valley's Joey Marinello appears poised to emerge as the next. Marinello enters this fall second on the depth chart at left guard behind JP Flynn, which means he possesses the luxury of developing and growing in the Bobcat system.
Spotlight Player: Want a fun way to kill some time? Try composing an All-Coach Mac Bobcat offensive line. You'll quickly come to the conclusion that your most valuable piece to the puzzle is Jeff Bolton. One of the newest members of the Wendy's Bobcat Athletics Hall of Fame (he enters with the class of 2015 this winter), the big dude from Haley, Idaho, who was signed out of an MSU summer football camp after his high school coach, a former Cat himself, tipped him off to it, Bolton showed game-proven ability to dominate at all three positions. He was primarily a guard, but will always be remembered for perhaps the finest senior season in school history, when he won the Rimington Award as the top center in Division I-AA after never having snapped the ball in a game before moving to that position in September of 2005. Bolton was a key part of the 2003 and 2005 Big Sky Championships, and earned Second Team All-America honors as a junior and First Team honors as a senior. He was a dominant physical force and an easy-going and easy-to-get-along-with guy.
Notable #64s in the Bobcat Past: The idea of Bozeman as a bustling, diverse and burgeoning community must have seemed quite a ways off to the folks who lived here in the early 1960s. The town held about 15,000 and Montana State College less than one-third that total. It was a beautiful place with terrific people by all accounts, just much less of them. So when the local high school produced a star Bobcat, it was big news. Howie Ross was such a player, an all-state gridder for the local high school who became an outstanding Bobcat offensive lineman. Ross was all-state in football and state heavyweight champion as a wrestler, and also competed in both sports at MSC. An arm injury suffered in wrestling during his sophomore season buried him on the depth chart entering the 1962 football season, but Ross rose to the top of the list and started throughout the year. He anchored the left side of the O-line with Joe Tiller for two seasons, and was lauded for his quick and physical play. Howie Ross – and his brother Jerry behind him – were sources of local pride for their athletic feats. Howard Ross went on to a long career managing MSU's Fieldhouse.
Through the Years: Greg Dufek (1957-59), Howard Ross (1961-63), John Jernberg (1964-66), Garth Forney (1967-68), Mike Cronquist (1969), Allan Young (1970-72), Dave Mueller (1973-76), J. Daly (1977-79), Charles White (1980), Bruce Brockmann (1982-85), Kevin Elliott (1986-90), John Arias (1991), Andy Hauser (1992), Brian Archdale (1994-98), Jason Keyser (1999), Jeff Bolton (2002-05), Richard Boggs (2006), Nate Brooks (2007), Casey Dennehy (2008), Andy Austin (2009-13), Joey Marinello (2014-present)
#64
Joey Marinello, OL: Montana State has a history of reeling in strong offensive linemen from the Land of 10,000 Lakes, and Apple Valley's Joey Marinello appears poised to emerge as the next. Marinello enters this fall second on the depth chart at left guard behind JP Flynn, which means he possesses the luxury of developing and growing in the Bobcat system.
Spotlight Player: Want a fun way to kill some time? Try composing an All-Coach Mac Bobcat offensive line. You'll quickly come to the conclusion that your most valuable piece to the puzzle is Jeff Bolton. One of the newest members of the Wendy's Bobcat Athletics Hall of Fame (he enters with the class of 2015 this winter), the big dude from Haley, Idaho, who was signed out of an MSU summer football camp after his high school coach, a former Cat himself, tipped him off to it, Bolton showed game-proven ability to dominate at all three positions. He was primarily a guard, but will always be remembered for perhaps the finest senior season in school history, when he won the Rimington Award as the top center in Division I-AA after never having snapped the ball in a game before moving to that position in September of 2005. Bolton was a key part of the 2003 and 2005 Big Sky Championships, and earned Second Team All-America honors as a junior and First Team honors as a senior. He was a dominant physical force and an easy-going and easy-to-get-along-with guy.
Notable #64s in the Bobcat Past: The idea of Bozeman as a bustling, diverse and burgeoning community must have seemed quite a ways off to the folks who lived here in the early 1960s. The town held about 15,000 and Montana State College less than one-third that total. It was a beautiful place with terrific people by all accounts, just much less of them. So when the local high school produced a star Bobcat, it was big news. Howie Ross was such a player, an all-state gridder for the local high school who became an outstanding Bobcat offensive lineman. Ross was all-state in football and state heavyweight champion as a wrestler, and also competed in both sports at MSC. An arm injury suffered in wrestling during his sophomore season buried him on the depth chart entering the 1962 football season, but Ross rose to the top of the list and started throughout the year. He anchored the left side of the O-line with Joe Tiller for two seasons, and was lauded for his quick and physical play. Howie Ross – and his brother Jerry behind him – were sources of local pride for their athletic feats. Howard Ross went on to a long career managing MSU's Fieldhouse.
Through the Years: Greg Dufek (1957-59), Howard Ross (1961-63), John Jernberg (1964-66), Garth Forney (1967-68), Mike Cronquist (1969), Allan Young (1970-72), Dave Mueller (1973-76), J. Daly (1977-79), Charles White (1980), Bruce Brockmann (1982-85), Kevin Elliott (1986-90), John Arias (1991), Andy Hauser (1992), Brian Archdale (1994-98), Jason Keyser (1999), Jeff Bolton (2002-05), Richard Boggs (2006), Nate Brooks (2007), Casey Dennehy (2008), Andy Austin (2009-13), Joey Marinello (2014-present)
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