ALL-TIME BOBCATS: Albert Borton
6/2/2019 3:01:00 PM | Football
Al Borton sandwiched a career as a scrappy Bobcat lineman around his service in the Great War
JUNE 2: Each day until Montana State's 2019 season opener the staff of Bobcats By The Numbers will offer a look at one of the players to make one of the school's all-time teams, in alphabetical order. On November 21, 1933, The Exponent announced 37 players selected by a panel of former players and coaches, divided into three teams that comprised Montana State's "mythical" all-time team. In 1969, the Billings Gazette's Norm Clarke conducted a poll to select the school's all-time team, and again in 2000 Bobcat Athletics and the Billings Gazette selected a third all-time team. The BBTN staff added players from the 21st century.
Albert Borton, RT, 1919
ALL-TIME TEAM: 1933 Exponent 3rd Team
HONORS: None on record.
A CLOSER LOOK: Montanans generally, and Montana State students in particular, have always answered the nation's call in times of war. That trend was in evidence in the time before the United States' entry into the World War of the 20th Century's second decade. The Glasgow product known for his toughness left the Bozeman campus after the fall quarter of 1917 and departed for Fort Lewis in Washington. Following his service he returned to Montana State and graduated in Agronomy. In addition to three seasons on the football team Borton was the 1920 Class President, contributed to the Exponent, and was a member of the Grain Judging Team. In the years after his graduation he served for a time as Executive Secretary of the State Agricultural Conservatory in Bozeman.
FROM THE 1919 MONTANAN (chronicling the 1917-18 academic year): "Al proved that lack of weight was no excuse for being kept off the team. His heady playing made up for his lack of weight. When speaking of some heavy opponent his theory was "the bigger they are the harder they fall." He applied this theory with wonderful results. He will not be back next year, as he has enlisted in the aviation branch of the army."
Albert Borton, RT, 1919
ALL-TIME TEAM: 1933 Exponent 3rd Team
HONORS: None on record.
A CLOSER LOOK: Montanans generally, and Montana State students in particular, have always answered the nation's call in times of war. That trend was in evidence in the time before the United States' entry into the World War of the 20th Century's second decade. The Glasgow product known for his toughness left the Bozeman campus after the fall quarter of 1917 and departed for Fort Lewis in Washington. Following his service he returned to Montana State and graduated in Agronomy. In addition to three seasons on the football team Borton was the 1920 Class President, contributed to the Exponent, and was a member of the Grain Judging Team. In the years after his graduation he served for a time as Executive Secretary of the State Agricultural Conservatory in Bozeman.
FROM THE 1919 MONTANAN (chronicling the 1917-18 academic year): "Al proved that lack of weight was no excuse for being kept off the team. His heady playing made up for his lack of weight. When speaking of some heavy opponent his theory was "the bigger they are the harder they fall." He applied this theory with wonderful results. He will not be back next year, as he has enlisted in the aviation branch of the army."
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