Bobcats By the Numbers: #53
7/12/2015 3:01:00 PM | Football
A legendary Bobcat cager also held down #53 in football
For every day of the summer we will 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.
#53
Rob Walsh, LB: Rob Walsh is one of those great Bobcat stories, a small-town player (from Twin Bridges, in this instance) who walks on at MSU and works his way into playing time. Walsh has played sparingly – eight games in his first three varsity seasons, primarily on special teams – but could see more action this year with a productive summer.
Spotlight Player: There are really three things we know for sure about John Breeden's 1926 football season at Montana State: 1) The player who was assigned jersey number 53 was not yet widely referred to as "Brick;" 2) He was a sophomore member of the Sigma Chi fraternity whose play didn't attract much comment from available published sources; and 3) He was captain-elect and blooming star of the Bobcat basketball team that would win the school's first Rocky Mountain Conference championship. While Breeden never exhibited the legendary excellence in football as he did in basketball, he was a four-year letterman and an important starter on the 1928 team that ended Montana's long winning streak against the Cats with a 0-0 tie in Butte.
Through the Years: Brick Breeden (1926), Jason Preston (1927), Joseph Gaab (1937), Robert Yasger (1953), Bill Salonen (1954), Willie Milliron (1955), Glenn Flatt (1956), Leon Potkay (1971-73), Dan Sebold (1974), Mark DeVore (1975-78), Dale Fink (1979-82), Greg Bennett (1984-85), Shawn Bohannen (1986-87), Chris Duffey (1988), Larry Love (1989), Kerry Pribnow (1990), Dino Sparaco (1992), Jason Sawicki (1993-96), Kyle Ecker (1997), Mike Quast (1999-2002), Peder Jensen (2003-07), Matt Bernard (2008-09), Seth Walton (2010), Matt Davis (2011), Rob Walsh (2012-)
#53
Rob Walsh, LB: Rob Walsh is one of those great Bobcat stories, a small-town player (from Twin Bridges, in this instance) who walks on at MSU and works his way into playing time. Walsh has played sparingly – eight games in his first three varsity seasons, primarily on special teams – but could see more action this year with a productive summer.
Spotlight Player: There are really three things we know for sure about John Breeden's 1926 football season at Montana State: 1) The player who was assigned jersey number 53 was not yet widely referred to as "Brick;" 2) He was a sophomore member of the Sigma Chi fraternity whose play didn't attract much comment from available published sources; and 3) He was captain-elect and blooming star of the Bobcat basketball team that would win the school's first Rocky Mountain Conference championship. While Breeden never exhibited the legendary excellence in football as he did in basketball, he was a four-year letterman and an important starter on the 1928 team that ended Montana's long winning streak against the Cats with a 0-0 tie in Butte.
Through the Years: Brick Breeden (1926), Jason Preston (1927), Joseph Gaab (1937), Robert Yasger (1953), Bill Salonen (1954), Willie Milliron (1955), Glenn Flatt (1956), Leon Potkay (1971-73), Dan Sebold (1974), Mark DeVore (1975-78), Dale Fink (1979-82), Greg Bennett (1984-85), Shawn Bohannen (1986-87), Chris Duffey (1988), Larry Love (1989), Kerry Pribnow (1990), Dino Sparaco (1992), Jason Sawicki (1993-96), Kyle Ecker (1997), Mike Quast (1999-2002), Peder Jensen (2003-07), Matt Bernard (2008-09), Seth Walton (2010), Matt Davis (2011), Rob Walsh (2012-)
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