IntuitiveGriz said:AZDoc said:IntuitiveGriz said:dirtysoup said:I hope they go after Andrew Grinde from CM Russell. Kid ran over, through, and around everybody last year. Gatorade POY and a chance to win it again next year. Only football player to win it twice in Montana was some guy named Dave Dickenson... (also CMR grad)
Past winners:
NAME..................YEAR.....POSITION.....SCHOOL..........CITY........
Andrew Grinde 2015 RB C.M.Russell Great Falls MT
Will Disslly 2014 TE/DE Bozeman Bozeman MT
Gunnar Brekke 2013 RB/DB Capital Helena MT
Caleb Kidder 2012 G/DE Capital Helena MT
Tanner Roderick 2011 QB Bozeman Bozeman MT
Matt Miller 2010 WR Capital Helena MT
Brock Osweiler 2009 QB Flathead Kalispell MT
Casey McMillan 2008l DT/G Billings Cent Billings MT
Matt Hustad 2007 DL Helena Helena MT
Alex Verlanic 2006 C/DT Drummond Drummond MT
Shawn Lebsock 2005 FB/LB Skyview Billings MT
Rob Schulte 2004 RB/DB Great Falls Great Falls MT
Kyle Samson 2003 QB Capital Helena MT
Ryan Grosulak 2002 RB/LB Billings West Billings MT
Mark Anderson 2001 TE Fergus Lewistown MT
Bo Bartik 2000 QB Billings West Billings MT
Pat Ryan 1999 TE/LB Billings West Billings MT
John Edwards 1998 QB Billings West Billings MT
Andy Petek 1997 LB Helena Helena MT
Ben Drinkwalter 1996 RB C.M. Russell Great Falls MT
Jon Ueland 1995 RB/WR Billings West Billings MT
Lance Lanning 1994 OT Havre Havre MT
Jason Crebo 1993 LB/TE Capital Helena MT
Joe Cummings 1992 LB/G Stevensville Stevensville MT
Dave Dickenson 1991 QB C.M. Russell Great Falls MT
David Dickerson 1990 QB C.M. Russell Great Falls MT
Chuck Mason 1989 LB Big Fork Big Fork MT
Jeff Tuss 1988 QB Captial Helena MT
Shane Collins 1987 LB/RB Bozeman Bozeman MT
Mitch Donahue 1986 LB Billings West Billings MT
That's a cool list. I played against 2 of those guys.
Cool, which ones?
I remember Shane Collins (my soph yr) and Jeff Tuss (my jr year) really well.
Collins was really tough. Great athlete. I mean really great. Because we lost to CMR (3-time champion 1984-1986) in the '86 state championship in Great Falls, 41-15. They were loaded. They had a couple players that could have won the '87 award, but Collins took it home.
Tuss lead his Capital HS Bruins from a 2 touchdown half-time deficit, 0-12, against us in Butte, to win the '87 state championship 14-12. I still can't get over that one.
I do not remember Chuck Mason my senior year, with him playing in a different classification. He must have been really good, because we lost the state semi-final game, by 1 score, to a really good Great Falls HS team in Great Falls, which won the state championship the next week. (not to mention the 3 players from my team that went on, all 3 be ALL-BSC and 2 of the 3 become 1-AA All-Americans... Can someone speak of Chuck Mason, I'd like to hear?
Jeff Tuss didn't play in the championship game. He broke his collar bone in the playoff win against Flathead. Chris Peccia started that game and brought us back.