BOBCAT CALENDAR: Montana State's Football Team Played its Only Recorded Doubleheader Today in 1925
9/26/2020 2:00:00 PM | Football
The Cats took it to a pair of undermanned independent teams from Butte
A day-by-day look at Bobcat football history...
September 26
SPOTLIGHT: There's likely no one alive who remembers September 26, 1925, but anyone who was on the Montana State campus that day saw something never seen before or since.
The Bobcat football team played a doubleheader.
Ott Romney's club was originally scheduled to host Whitworth, but the small, private school from Spokane was facing budget and athletic difficulties. Whitworth canceled its trip to Bozeman, so Romney got creative. First, he scheduled a game against the independent Centerville team from Butte, which had played the Cats on the first Romney Field in 1924. Then he added Englewood, also an independent club from the Minig City, to the slate. On the same day. Finally, Romney split his squad so as to not place too stern a physical tax on his men a week before traveling to Colorado.
Montana State beat Centerville 21-0 with a squad that featured captain Van Dobeus and returning stars Pop Gregory, Tenney Babcock, Hugh Cottam, and Adolph Hartwig. The Blue and Gold rolled up 16 first downs in the opener, and in spite of sloppy offensive play that included several plenty of fumbles and penalties, according to the 1926 Montanan. Hugh Cottam completed five passes, per The Exponent, to "Hook and Ladder" Hartwig.
In the second contest of the day, the Cats swamped a much smaller team. Val Glynn, Herb Winner and Rip Wilson led Montana State in the nightcap. Winner returned the opening kickoff to the Englewood three, and the Bobcats were off and running.
GAMES ON TODAY'S DATE
2019 - at Texas Tech 45, MSU 10
2015 - MSU 45, #20 Cal Poly 28
2009 - MSU 25, at UNC 7
1998 - MSU 37, Sac St 30
1992 - at Weber St 47, MSU 19
1987 - EWU 32, MSU 30
1981 - MSU 35, Simon Fraser 4
1970 - MSU 26, at Fresno St 12
1964 - MSU 27, Fresno St 13
1959 - MSU 35, Cal Poly 18
1953 - MSU 25, at Colo Mines 7
1936 - at Utah St 12, MSU 0
1931 - MSU 7, St. Mary's Minn 7
1925 - MSU 21, Centerville 0
1925 - MSU 86, Englewood 0
September 26
SPOTLIGHT: There's likely no one alive who remembers September 26, 1925, but anyone who was on the Montana State campus that day saw something never seen before or since.
The Bobcat football team played a doubleheader.
Ott Romney's club was originally scheduled to host Whitworth, but the small, private school from Spokane was facing budget and athletic difficulties. Whitworth canceled its trip to Bozeman, so Romney got creative. First, he scheduled a game against the independent Centerville team from Butte, which had played the Cats on the first Romney Field in 1924. Then he added Englewood, also an independent club from the Minig City, to the slate. On the same day. Finally, Romney split his squad so as to not place too stern a physical tax on his men a week before traveling to Colorado.
Montana State beat Centerville 21-0 with a squad that featured captain Van Dobeus and returning stars Pop Gregory, Tenney Babcock, Hugh Cottam, and Adolph Hartwig. The Blue and Gold rolled up 16 first downs in the opener, and in spite of sloppy offensive play that included several plenty of fumbles and penalties, according to the 1926 Montanan. Hugh Cottam completed five passes, per The Exponent, to "Hook and Ladder" Hartwig.
In the second contest of the day, the Cats swamped a much smaller team. Val Glynn, Herb Winner and Rip Wilson led Montana State in the nightcap. Winner returned the opening kickoff to the Englewood three, and the Bobcats were off and running.
GAMES ON TODAY'S DATE
2019 - at Texas Tech 45, MSU 10
2015 - MSU 45, #20 Cal Poly 28
2009 - MSU 25, at UNC 7
1998 - MSU 37, Sac St 30
1992 - at Weber St 47, MSU 19
1987 - EWU 32, MSU 30
1981 - MSU 35, Simon Fraser 4
1970 - MSU 26, at Fresno St 12
1964 - MSU 27, Fresno St 13
1959 - MSU 35, Cal Poly 18
1953 - MSU 25, at Colo Mines 7
1936 - at Utah St 12, MSU 0
1931 - MSU 7, St. Mary's Minn 7
1925 - MSU 21, Centerville 0
1925 - MSU 86, Englewood 0
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