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Montana vs North Dakota - 1941 Program

HookedonGriz

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Okay I must admit, my wife is the coolest. She was in an antique store in Bozeman and found this for me for Father's Day. Talk about a trip back in time! So cool to see the Butte names I'm familiar with in Naranche and Mufich, but also the other stars like Jack Swarthout who went on to lead the Griz football team as a coach going 10-0 in '69 and '70 and leading them to the Camellia Bowl. He basically turned the Griz into a wining program. This is going to be a key piece of my Griz Cave!!
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Super cool, where did you come across this program?

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grizband said:
Super cool, where did you come across this program?

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Wife found it in Four Corners area at the Antique Market. It was in a glass case and the old school pic of the gals on front first caught her eye. Then she realized it was a Griz program and grabbed it for me. I have been reading every line since. It's pretty dang cool
 
Worth the read....some great history with Idaho, some current stats, and info on their final 3 game stretch with the Sioux, Idaho, and Oregon St
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Sorry last one....this one mentions the newly-created QB Club that meets weekly downtown on Mondays....just awesome!
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Awesome condition too. Crazy to see the shout out to Phillip Morris too. That’s something you definitely don’t see anymore.
 
alabamagrizzly said:
Awesome condition too. Crazy to see the shout out to Phillip Morris too. That’s something you definitely don’t see anymore.

I found that interesting too! The cigarette that's best for your throat haha!
 
HookedonGriz said:
Okay I must admit, my wife is the coolest. She was in an antique store in Bozeman and found this for me for Father's Day. Talk about a trip back in time! So cool to see the Butte names I'm familiar with in Naranche and Mufich, but also the other stars like Jack Swarthout who went on to lead the Griz football team as a coach going 10-0 in '69 and '70 and leading them to the Camellia Bowl. He basically turned the Griz into a wining program. This is going to be a key piece of my Griz Cave!!
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Hook, your wife is the coolest! What a great find. We knew Harry Adam’s daughter Sue. Also, Bill Jones, wonderful all around athlete. Attorney in Hardin and Billings. Good tennis player in addition to football and basketball.

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I can share a little background on the quarterback Bill Leaphart. He went on to have a distinguished career as an attorney in Helena, mostly in private practice. That was not surprising as his father was the then-Dean of the Law School in Missoula. Bill's son William Leaphart III served on the Montana Supreme Court for 6 or 8 years and is now retired. Bill was also a pilot of his own airplane and use to use his plane in his law practice. I saw him several years ago when he was in a wheel chair and wasn't looking too healthy. It would be three or four years ago now that I read his obituary. Had no idea of his former athletic prowess. p.s. I decided to quit being lazy and looked up his obituary. Bill was 92 when he died in 2013---- probably one of the last living members from that team.
 
grizfromhel said:
I can share a little background on the quarterback Bill Leaphart. He went on to have a distinguished career as an attorney in Helena, mostly in private practice. That was not surprising as his father was the then-Dean of the Law School in Missoula. Bill's son William Leaphart III served on the Montana Supreme Court for 6 or 8 years and is now retired. Bill was also a pilot of his own airplane and use to use his plane in his law practice. I saw him several years ago when he was in a wheel chair and wasn't looking too healthy. It would be three or four years ago now that I read his obituary. Had no idea of his former athletic prowess. p.s. I decided to quit being lazy and looked up his obituary. Bill was 92 when he died in 2013---- probably one of the last living members from that team.

Good stuff. Thanks you!
 
Spanky2 said:
HookedonGriz said:
Okay I must admit, my wife is the coolest. She was in an antique store in Bozeman and found this for me for Father's Day. Talk about a trip back in time! So cool to see the Butte names I'm familiar with in Naranche and Mufich, but also the other stars like Jack Swarthout who went on to lead the Griz football team as a coach going 10-0 in '69 and '70 and leading them to the Camellia Bowl. He basically turned the Griz into a wining program. This is going to be a key piece of my Griz Cave!!
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Hook, your wife is the coolest! What a great find. We knew Harry Adam’s daughter Sue. Also, Bill Jones, wonderful all around athlete. Attorney in Hardin and Billings. Good tennis player in addition to football and basketball.

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Thanks for the kind words and for feedback. The personal stories add to all of it!
 
My mom was a junior at Montana at this time. I'd bet she attended this game. She often spoke of several of the players pictured in the program. What a find by your wife!
 
I don’t know when Player’s father played, but he probably knew the team members and coach.
I think my uncle knew most of them, although he graduated in 39.
I remember some great stories of UM during that period of time.
 
Great to see Eso featured my old man graduated high school with him. He was in ROTC at UM and was commissioned shortly after Pearl Harbor. He was with some of the first US troops to be killed in WW2 at the battle of the Kasserine Pass in the Atlas Mountains in Tunisia. And of course the Butte High stadium named after him. Harry Adams and Jigs Dahlberg on the same staff. You must have a great wife. :thumb:
 
Anybody know what happened to the Little Brown Stein after the series with Idaho ended and if the tradition will continue now that they have rejoined the BSC?
 
Most interesting was the 2:30 start in November. Hard to believe they had lights in '41.

I have a story about one of the players on the roster, Kenny Smallwood. At the hotel bar the night of the '95 NC game, this older fellow is sitting at the bar alone so I leave my group and strike up a conversation with him. Had not met him before, but here are two dudes in Huntington, WV from Columbus. Even better, he was in my mom's HS class and I was then familiar with his name. Even stranger, he was living in VA when another family moved in next to him, the wife from guess where. Yes. He came back to Columbus in '96 for a local celebration of 50 years after WWII. We were two happy dudes that December night in '95.
 
Dutch Lane said:
Anybody know what happened to the Little Brown Stein after the series with Idaho ended and if the tradition will continue now that they have rejoined the BSC?
It has been sitting in Adams Center since 2000. They last beat us in '99 (33-30); we have beaten them 8 of the last 10.
 
kemajic said:
Most interesting was the 2:30 start in November. Hard to believe they had lights in '41.

I have a story about one of the players on the roster, Kenny Smallwood. At the hotel bar the night of the '95 NC game, this older fellow is sitting at the bar alone so I leave my group and strike up a conversation with him. Had not met him before, but here are two dudes in Huntington, WV from Columbus. Even better, he was in my mom's HS class and I was then familiar with his name. Even stranger, he was living in VA when another family moved in next to him, the wife from guess where. Yes. He came back to Columbus in '96 for a local celebration of 50 years after WWII. We were two happy dudes that December night in '95.

Love these stories! Brings the program to life. Thanks for sharing!
 
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