BOBCATS BY THE NUMBERS: 91 Days Until Montana State Plays at Wyoming to Open 2021!
6/5/2021 2:00:00 PM | Football
A look at the No. 91 in Bobcat football history...
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 2021 football season at Wyoming on September 4.
#91
Blake Hehl, DL: Blake Hehl brings several noteworthy attributes to Bobcat football. Most noticeable is his size. At 6-3, 280, Hehl is hard to miss. His journey is also interesting, having traveled from Fullerton College in his native southern California to Virginia (Old Dominion) to Texas (Tarleton State) and finally to Bozeman. In eight 2020 games, he registered 19 tackles, 2.5 for a loss with four quarterback hurries. But there's something else that caught the attention of Bobcat coaches – how hard Hehl plays. Hehl is expected to vie for playing time at one of the interior positions on the defensive line.
Bobcat Farewell – Michael Jobman: We'll use this space to say goodbye to players who have graduated from MSU and concluded their college football careers in recent months in spite of having eligibility remaining. Michael Jobman is one of those players, a talented linebacker who for much of his three seasons as a Bobcat. Jobman came to MSU from Huntley Project and was such a wonderful fit in multiple ways. He was a prototype for what then-head coach Jeff Choate wanted to build his defense around – lengthy, athletic players who can cover space both with their speed and burst and their reach and physicality. But he was also the kind of Bobcat that the program has been built on for so many years, a Montanan who took such pride in wearing the Blue and Gold. Players like Jobman have always meant much, much more than to Montana State football than can be quantified. The son of a Nebraska football player and a star athlete at Nebraska Wesleyan, Jobman helped put Choate and his staff firmly on the road to success, which it continues to travel.
91 – Combined points by Portland State (56) and Montana State (35), the most in Bobcat history to that point in which each team scored (Utah beat the Bobcats 97-0 in 1911) and the final game of Sonny Holland's head coaching career. Future NFL star Neil Lomax threw for 469 yards and six touchdowns that day to lead the Vikings, with no one catching more than one TD pass. Butch Damberger's two touchdown catches helped the Cats build a 27-12 lead before PSU scored 44 straight points, which included an interception returned for a touchdown. That high-scoring game full of passes and other pyrotechnics marked the most points allowed in Sonny Holland's brilliant career as Montana State's head coach.
Chronology: Tex Sikora (1982-85), Kevin Wolf (1986-88), Mark Sims (1989-93), Aaron Nava (1996), Nathan Schmidt (1999), Roger Cooper (2000-04), Joe Schreibeis (2005-09), Odin Coe (2011-12), Robert Wilcox (2013-15), Michael Jobman (2016-)
Other 91 Notes: For a jersey number that only 10 Bobcats have worn, the list of players that have worn 91 in the Blue and Gold is impressive. Tex Sikora (in 1982) became the first Bobcat regular on record to don #91, and he held it down capably during the team's run to the 1984 National Championship. Since then Mark Sims spanned the Solomonson and Hysell eras as a solid defensive end, Roger Cooper (above) wore it as well as any Bobcat has worn any number, and Joe Schreibeis was a team captain and productive tight end, although Odin Coe hadn't yet blossomed into an outstanding defensive end before transitioning to number 11. Roger Cooper didn't just chase ball carriers. The Port Orchard, Washington, product didn't just sack opposing quarterbacks. He hunted them. He stalked them. Cooper pursued opponents the way a lion preys on wildebeest on the plains of the Serengeti. His spectacular, All-America career featured 46 tackles-for-loss, still the seventh-most in Bobcat history, and 13 sacks. He caused three fumbles, recovered four, and intercepted three passes. Cooper was a three-time All-Big Sky performer, and earned league defensive MVP honors as a senior. Presently an assistant coach at Idaho State, Cooper was inducted into the Bobcat Athletics Hall of Fame four years ago.
#91
Blake Hehl, DL: Blake Hehl brings several noteworthy attributes to Bobcat football. Most noticeable is his size. At 6-3, 280, Hehl is hard to miss. His journey is also interesting, having traveled from Fullerton College in his native southern California to Virginia (Old Dominion) to Texas (Tarleton State) and finally to Bozeman. In eight 2020 games, he registered 19 tackles, 2.5 for a loss with four quarterback hurries. But there's something else that caught the attention of Bobcat coaches – how hard Hehl plays. Hehl is expected to vie for playing time at one of the interior positions on the defensive line.
Bobcat Farewell – Michael Jobman: We'll use this space to say goodbye to players who have graduated from MSU and concluded their college football careers in recent months in spite of having eligibility remaining. Michael Jobman is one of those players, a talented linebacker who for much of his three seasons as a Bobcat. Jobman came to MSU from Huntley Project and was such a wonderful fit in multiple ways. He was a prototype for what then-head coach Jeff Choate wanted to build his defense around – lengthy, athletic players who can cover space both with their speed and burst and their reach and physicality. But he was also the kind of Bobcat that the program has been built on for so many years, a Montanan who took such pride in wearing the Blue and Gold. Players like Jobman have always meant much, much more than to Montana State football than can be quantified. The son of a Nebraska football player and a star athlete at Nebraska Wesleyan, Jobman helped put Choate and his staff firmly on the road to success, which it continues to travel.
91 – Combined points by Portland State (56) and Montana State (35), the most in Bobcat history to that point in which each team scored (Utah beat the Bobcats 97-0 in 1911) and the final game of Sonny Holland's head coaching career. Future NFL star Neil Lomax threw for 469 yards and six touchdowns that day to lead the Vikings, with no one catching more than one TD pass. Butch Damberger's two touchdown catches helped the Cats build a 27-12 lead before PSU scored 44 straight points, which included an interception returned for a touchdown. That high-scoring game full of passes and other pyrotechnics marked the most points allowed in Sonny Holland's brilliant career as Montana State's head coach.
Chronology: Tex Sikora (1982-85), Kevin Wolf (1986-88), Mark Sims (1989-93), Aaron Nava (1996), Nathan Schmidt (1999), Roger Cooper (2000-04), Joe Schreibeis (2005-09), Odin Coe (2011-12), Robert Wilcox (2013-15), Michael Jobman (2016-)
Other 91 Notes: For a jersey number that only 10 Bobcats have worn, the list of players that have worn 91 in the Blue and Gold is impressive. Tex Sikora (in 1982) became the first Bobcat regular on record to don #91, and he held it down capably during the team's run to the 1984 National Championship. Since then Mark Sims spanned the Solomonson and Hysell eras as a solid defensive end, Roger Cooper (above) wore it as well as any Bobcat has worn any number, and Joe Schreibeis was a team captain and productive tight end, although Odin Coe hadn't yet blossomed into an outstanding defensive end before transitioning to number 11. Roger Cooper didn't just chase ball carriers. The Port Orchard, Washington, product didn't just sack opposing quarterbacks. He hunted them. He stalked them. Cooper pursued opponents the way a lion preys on wildebeest on the plains of the Serengeti. His spectacular, All-America career featured 46 tackles-for-loss, still the seventh-most in Bobcat history, and 13 sacks. He caused three fumbles, recovered four, and intercepted three passes. Cooper was a three-time All-Big Sky performer, and earned league defensive MVP honors as a senior. Presently an assistant coach at Idaho State, Cooper was inducted into the Bobcat Athletics Hall of Fame four years ago.
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