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BOBCATS BY THE NUMBERS: Zero Days! We Repeat, Today is the Day!! And We Look at a Winner!!!
8/30/2018 8:32:00 AM | Football
Herb Winner is the only Bobcat in recorded history to wear 0 in a game
August 30: Bobcats by the Numbers takes a look at current and past Bobcats whose jersey numbers correspond to the number of days remaining before Montana State opens the 2018 football season against Western Illinois in Bobcat Stadium's annual Gold Rush game… today! It's today! We've got the vim, Go Cats Go!!!
#0
0 is no longer an allowable jersey number: Section a. of article 2 in the college football rule book stats that players shall wear jersey numbers between 1 and 99 inclusive, which disallows a jersey 0 or 00.
Spotlight – Herb Winner: Herb Winner cast a mighty long shadow on the Montana State campus in the 1920s. A 1927 graduate of Montana State College with a degree in ag education. He lettered four times in three sports – football, basketball and baseball – and was Junior Class President in 1925-26. A student senator as a junior and senior, he also belonged to Beta Epsilon, Septembri, and Les Bouffons, and on the gridiron "his work at quarter(back) was one of the bright features" of several games, according to the Montanan. He was also lauded for interceptions as a secondary anchor, and Montana State's wins over Wyoming, BYU and Colorado put the Cats in position to finish undefeated in the Rocky Mountain Conference, one win shy of the 5-0 Utah Utes. As if a fine senior season on the gridiron wasn't enough, he captained the 1926-27 Bobcats basketball team to its first Rocky Mountain championship. That 30-7 squad truly launched the era of the Golden Bobcats, or 'wonder team' as it was often called by contemporaries. From 1926-29 the Cats compiled an amazing 102-11 record, and while Winner was along for the entire ride his work forming that team into an amazing basketball machine was widely noted. Also, don't think we here at BBTN haven't noted that the only player on record that we can highlight today has the last name of Winner… Go Cats Go!
Chronology: Herb Winner (1926)
Opening Day Thoughts: First of all, breathe deep. You made it. Summer's over, the NFL is mostly irrelevant at this moment, and college football is back! And make no mistake, tonight's game is a big one – Western Illinois is certainly the most high-profile and powerful opponent to open a season in Bobcat Stadium during MSU's Division I era. In fact, only In fact, Monmouth and Saint Mary's are the only Division I teams to occupy the visiting sideline in MSU's DI era. North Dakota, Portland State and Idaho State are teams in the '70s that opened a season in Reno H. Sales Stadium, and all were strong Division II squads, but none come close to the 2018 Leathernecks in terms of talent and pedigree… The list of Division I opponents that have served as home openers for the Bobcats: Bryant, Monmouth, UC Davis, Stephen F. Austin (twice), Gardner-Webb, Saint Mary's, Cal Poly, and all the way back to 1990, Western Illinois; before then, Eastern Washington, Sam Houston State, Idaho State, Idaho, and Fresno State.
#0
0 is no longer an allowable jersey number: Section a. of article 2 in the college football rule book stats that players shall wear jersey numbers between 1 and 99 inclusive, which disallows a jersey 0 or 00.
Spotlight – Herb Winner: Herb Winner cast a mighty long shadow on the Montana State campus in the 1920s. A 1927 graduate of Montana State College with a degree in ag education. He lettered four times in three sports – football, basketball and baseball – and was Junior Class President in 1925-26. A student senator as a junior and senior, he also belonged to Beta Epsilon, Septembri, and Les Bouffons, and on the gridiron "his work at quarter(back) was one of the bright features" of several games, according to the Montanan. He was also lauded for interceptions as a secondary anchor, and Montana State's wins over Wyoming, BYU and Colorado put the Cats in position to finish undefeated in the Rocky Mountain Conference, one win shy of the 5-0 Utah Utes. As if a fine senior season on the gridiron wasn't enough, he captained the 1926-27 Bobcats basketball team to its first Rocky Mountain championship. That 30-7 squad truly launched the era of the Golden Bobcats, or 'wonder team' as it was often called by contemporaries. From 1926-29 the Cats compiled an amazing 102-11 record, and while Winner was along for the entire ride his work forming that team into an amazing basketball machine was widely noted. Also, don't think we here at BBTN haven't noted that the only player on record that we can highlight today has the last name of Winner… Go Cats Go!
Chronology: Herb Winner (1926)
Opening Day Thoughts: First of all, breathe deep. You made it. Summer's over, the NFL is mostly irrelevant at this moment, and college football is back! And make no mistake, tonight's game is a big one – Western Illinois is certainly the most high-profile and powerful opponent to open a season in Bobcat Stadium during MSU's Division I era. In fact, only In fact, Monmouth and Saint Mary's are the only Division I teams to occupy the visiting sideline in MSU's DI era. North Dakota, Portland State and Idaho State are teams in the '70s that opened a season in Reno H. Sales Stadium, and all were strong Division II squads, but none come close to the 2018 Leathernecks in terms of talent and pedigree… The list of Division I opponents that have served as home openers for the Bobcats: Bryant, Monmouth, UC Davis, Stephen F. Austin (twice), Gardner-Webb, Saint Mary's, Cal Poly, and all the way back to 1990, Western Illinois; before then, Eastern Washington, Sam Houston State, Idaho State, Idaho, and Fresno State.
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