ALL-TIME BOBCATS: Ray Buzzetti
6/3/2019 3:00:00 PM | Football
The dynamo from Hardin spearheaded a Bobcat win over the Grizzlies in 1932
JUNE 3: 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.
Ray Buzzetti, QB, 1933
ALL-TIME TEAM: 1933 Exponent 3rd Team
HONORS: 1932 All-State Halfback (as named by Montana Standard)
A CLOSER LOOK: More commonly linked to the Bobcat basketball program, Ray Buzzetti was a multi-sport star at Montana State who graduated in 1932. name will always be linked with the Bobcat basketball program because as a freshman in 1928-29 he joined The Wonder Team, which would soon become known as the Golden Bobcats. Buzzetti played quarterback earlier in his career, but in 1932 played halfback on a team that beat the Grizzlies for the second time in four years. Buzzetti became the first Bobcat to punch the ball over the Clark Park goal line in 1932, a one-yard plunge set up by a long Juel Edwards run. A 20-yard run by Buzzetti set up to set up a one-yard touchdown run by Edwards early in the fourth quarter. After stopping the Grizzlies on a fourth-and-one from the University's 21-yard line Buzzetti set the day's final score with a 20-yard touchdown run, and the Bobcats claimed a 19-7 win. Buzzetti finished with 61 yards rushing and two touchdowns.
FROM THE 1932 MONTANAN: "Ray picked up a good many yards out on the field last season (1931) by virtue of a fast pair of legs. He was outstanding, too, in the ability to tackle hard and sure."
Ray Buzzetti, QB, 1933
ALL-TIME TEAM: 1933 Exponent 3rd Team
HONORS: 1932 All-State Halfback (as named by Montana Standard)
A CLOSER LOOK: More commonly linked to the Bobcat basketball program, Ray Buzzetti was a multi-sport star at Montana State who graduated in 1932. name will always be linked with the Bobcat basketball program because as a freshman in 1928-29 he joined The Wonder Team, which would soon become known as the Golden Bobcats. Buzzetti played quarterback earlier in his career, but in 1932 played halfback on a team that beat the Grizzlies for the second time in four years. Buzzetti became the first Bobcat to punch the ball over the Clark Park goal line in 1932, a one-yard plunge set up by a long Juel Edwards run. A 20-yard run by Buzzetti set up to set up a one-yard touchdown run by Edwards early in the fourth quarter. After stopping the Grizzlies on a fourth-and-one from the University's 21-yard line Buzzetti set the day's final score with a 20-yard touchdown run, and the Bobcats claimed a 19-7 win. Buzzetti finished with 61 yards rushing and two touchdowns.
FROM THE 1932 MONTANAN: "Ray picked up a good many yards out on the field last season (1931) by virtue of a fast pair of legs. He was outstanding, too, in the ability to tackle hard and sure."
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