Dane Fletcher brought glory to #47 at MSU
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Bobcats By the Numbers: #47
7/18/2015 4:07:00 PM | Football
Dane Fletcher was a dominant defensive end for the Bobcats
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.
#47
Keegan Bray, DL: Keegan Bray is a rangy defensive end prospect with work to do physically, but a world of potential. A Spokane Ferris graduate, Bray is 6-2, 218 lbs, and is recognized as a versatile athlete with good speed for his size. He notched 35 tackles as a senior, seven for a loss, with three sacks.
Spotlight Player: Any list of all-time greatest Bobcat football players that doesn't include Dane Fletcher should be disregarded. Like a Montana version of Dave Winfield, the former Bozeman Hawk, Bozeman Bucks (American Legion baseball) and Bozeman Ice Dogs (hockey) star could have been a huge success at whatever sport he chose coming out of high school. Thankfully he chose the Bobcat football program, and that decision launched a successful NFL career. Many words could be written about Fletcher's dominance in the Blue and Gold, and his 2009 Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year award is certainly testimony. But one game certainly stands as an apt descriptor for his career. In his final game of the 2008 season, against Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, Fletcher registered six tackles, four for a loss, with one sack. He caused a fumble, forced another, and blocked two kicks. And he did all this in three quarters, because he suffered a season-ending knee injury midway through the second half of that contest. Montana State upended 22nd-ranked Northern Arizona that day, largely due to one of the most dominant individual efforts ever in Bobcat Blue and Gold.
Spotlight Moment: It's a play that has been treated far more aptly and at far greater length in other spaces than is possible here, but it was in jersey number 47 that Joe Roberts completed his impossible dash from near the Bobcats end zone to paydirt 97 yards away that spurred MSU to the 1984 National Championship. Even Bobcat fans that weren't in the fold yet for one reason or another get chills thinking of that play.
Through the Years: Joe Wellington (1927), Jack Burke (1940), Bob Findlater (1941), Len Larson (1946-47), Max Berg (1948), Jack McDonald (1949), Al Miller (1950), Herb Roberts (1953-56), Scott Anderson (1980), Joe Roberts (1981-84), Todd Brown (1985-86), Scott Kimball (1987-89), tyler Herbst (1990-91), Ben Racicot (1992), Chris Ogle (1993-94), Kevin Lundstrom (1995-98), Ryan Elliott (1999), Brian Olson (2000), Phil Davey (2001), Brandon Flaig (2002), Jonathan Molock (2003-04), Dane Fletcher (2005-09), Taylor Dees (2011-14), Keegan Bray (2015-)
#47
Keegan Bray, DL: Keegan Bray is a rangy defensive end prospect with work to do physically, but a world of potential. A Spokane Ferris graduate, Bray is 6-2, 218 lbs, and is recognized as a versatile athlete with good speed for his size. He notched 35 tackles as a senior, seven for a loss, with three sacks.
Spotlight Player: Any list of all-time greatest Bobcat football players that doesn't include Dane Fletcher should be disregarded. Like a Montana version of Dave Winfield, the former Bozeman Hawk, Bozeman Bucks (American Legion baseball) and Bozeman Ice Dogs (hockey) star could have been a huge success at whatever sport he chose coming out of high school. Thankfully he chose the Bobcat football program, and that decision launched a successful NFL career. Many words could be written about Fletcher's dominance in the Blue and Gold, and his 2009 Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year award is certainly testimony. But one game certainly stands as an apt descriptor for his career. In his final game of the 2008 season, against Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, Fletcher registered six tackles, four for a loss, with one sack. He caused a fumble, forced another, and blocked two kicks. And he did all this in three quarters, because he suffered a season-ending knee injury midway through the second half of that contest. Montana State upended 22nd-ranked Northern Arizona that day, largely due to one of the most dominant individual efforts ever in Bobcat Blue and Gold.
Spotlight Moment: It's a play that has been treated far more aptly and at far greater length in other spaces than is possible here, but it was in jersey number 47 that Joe Roberts completed his impossible dash from near the Bobcats end zone to paydirt 97 yards away that spurred MSU to the 1984 National Championship. Even Bobcat fans that weren't in the fold yet for one reason or another get chills thinking of that play.
Through the Years: Joe Wellington (1927), Jack Burke (1940), Bob Findlater (1941), Len Larson (1946-47), Max Berg (1948), Jack McDonald (1949), Al Miller (1950), Herb Roberts (1953-56), Scott Anderson (1980), Joe Roberts (1981-84), Todd Brown (1985-86), Scott Kimball (1987-89), tyler Herbst (1990-91), Ben Racicot (1992), Chris Ogle (1993-94), Kevin Lundstrom (1995-98), Ryan Elliott (1999), Brian Olson (2000), Phil Davey (2001), Brandon Flaig (2002), Jonathan Molock (2003-04), Dane Fletcher (2005-09), Taylor Dees (2011-14), Keegan Bray (2015-)
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