52 results for tag: Griz Football
The news of his return sent ripples across the Big Sky Conference.
81 wins, seven straight league titles, three national championship appearances … A rising, Bobby Hauck-led Grizzly team lifts all programs - or at least that’s the feeling around the league as opening weekend looms closer.
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Less than two weeks until Montana kicks off its 2018 campaign, but still no clarity on the health of it's most celebrated player.
Preseason defensive player of the year Josh Buss sat out all 15 spring practices for Montana after undergoing off-season shoulder injury; now sources have indicated he may have also suffered a torn ...
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Eight teams received at least one first-place vote in the Big Sky Conference preseason media poll released this week, hinting at a possible wide-open 2018 season.
In the end, though, it was Eastern Washington which earned the most votes with 27. The Eagles, led by All-American quarterback Gage Gubrud, also earned the preseason ...
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Former Missoulian Gabe Peppenger will fulfill his dream of playing Grizzly football after announcing his intent to transfer to the University of Montana beginning this fall.
Despite earning all-state honors as both a junior and senior at Sentinel, the kicker received no offers from former Montana head coach Bob Stitt; instead, ...
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Though he never left Missoula, Colin Bingham is thankful to finally be back home.
After three years playing inside receiver for the Montana Grizzly football team, the fourth-year junior has shifted back to tight end - a position that earned him a first-team All-State nod as a senior at Big Sky High School in 2014.
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In the week leading up to the North Dakota game, Montana defensive coordinator focused heavily on the team's biggest deficiency thus far: missed tackles.
Two games later, the team now leads the Big Sky in tackles behind line of scrimmage (60) and sits second in sacks (22).
"Tackling is where we have improved the most, ...
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A fixation on streaks turned from dialogue into action last Saturday as the Montana football team rallied from a halftime deficit for a road win over Idaho State - a first in three seasons under head coach Bob Stitt.
The 39-31 win marked an end to another streak at Montana: Zero road conference success on the road in four ...
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Cole Bergquist is quite literally the only man to walk in Gresch Jensen’s shoes in the modern generation.
When Dave Dickenson won the starting quarterback job as a sophomore at the University of Montana in 1993, it began a trend of multi-year starters under center.
Neither he - nor Brian Ah Yat or Drew Miller or John ...
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His work as a counselor for children battling cancer has given him perspective; his work as a three-sport athlete at Loyola has taught him competitiveness.
Wednesday morning, David Koppang's notion that anything is possible through hard work and humility came to fruition when the University of Montana's in-state recruiter, ...
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As Montana gets set to open Big Sky play against defending conference co-champs Eastern Washington on Saturday, head coach Bob Stitt finds himself in a familiar situation.
Starting quarterback Reese Phillips is officially done for the year after sustaining injury to his left foot versus Savannah State last weekend, and so ...
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