Montana HS Griz Connection Question

[227GRIZ]

Bob Mcculloch from Helena High played for the Denver Broncos. 1962-1965. Crebo, Miller, and Carrothers were never on an active NFL roster (53) I think maybe Carrothers was on a practice squad for a little bit, but Capital has never had a player active on game day in the NFL

 

[Spanky]

Bill Jones-Livingston

 

[IntuitiveGriz]

Butte High for a while was churning them out

Riley
Leprowse
Buehler
Paffhausen
Erickson
Daum
Dallasara

In addition:

Lembke
Allen
Mirich
Toone
Delaney
Fagan
Anderson
Dennehy
Connors

Old timers: (a few Grizzly Hall of Fame'rs from Butte) http://sidearm.sites.s3.amazonaws.com/gogriz.com/documents/2015/3/2/Grizzly-Sports-Hall-of-Fame.pdf

Popovich - http://missoulian.com/sports/butte-bullet-dies-grizzly-great-milt-popovich-was-one-of/article_752be155-cefd-543a-8eea-e3ec99689202.html

Naranche - WW11 hero, Butte High stadium is named after.

O'Billovich - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_O%27Billovich

And my blood:

Mufich - http://mtstandard.com/sports/butte-legends-the-athletes-no-bill-mufich/article_c479cdf2-062a-11e3-985a-001a4bcf887a.html

 

[IntuitiveGriz]

Butte High's Todd Ericson, who was the 2nd person to ever "recieve" the #37 (from fellow FS Tim Hauck), was invited to the Indianapolis Colts camp...I believe, if I'm not mistaken, injury kept him from pursuing an NFL career.

 

[rimrockgriz]

How about the Montana HS that has produced the most NFL talent? Here's a few to get things started:

Anaconda
-Milan Lazetich (UM & Michigan)

Baker
-Shann Schillinger (UM)

Billings West
-Kirk Scrafford (UM)
-Mitch Donahue (Wyoming)

Bozeman
-Brock Coyle (UM)
-Dane Fletcher (MSU)
-Travis Dorsch (Purdue)
-Shane Collins (Arizona State)
-Mike McLeod (MSU)
-Corey Widmer (MSU)

Butte
-Colt Anderson (UM)
-Milt Popovich (UM)
-Jack McAuliffe (UM)

Chester
-Casey FitzSimmons (Carroll)

Chinook
-Mike Tilleman (UM)

CMR (Great Falls)
-Dave Dickenson (UM)
-Ryan Leaf (Washington State)
-Barry Darrow (UM)

Colstrip
-Tuff Harris (UM)

Columbus
-Dwan Edwards (Oregon State)

Custer County High School (Miles City)
-Russ Peterson (UM)

Dawson County High School (Glendive)
-Mike Person (MSU)

Drummond
-Chase Reynolds (UM)

Flathead (Kalispell)
-Lex Hilliard (UM)
-Dylan McFarland (UM)
-Brock Osweiler (Arizona State)
-Mike Reilly (Central Washington)
-Sam McCullum (MSU)

Great Falls High School
-Kris Heppner (UM)
-Dallas Neil (UM)
-Brian Salonen (UM)

Hardin
-Kroy Biermann (UM)

Havre
-Marc Mariani (UM)

Helena High School
-Dan Carpenter (UM)
-Pat Donovan (Stanford)

Missoula Big Sky
-Jordan Tripp (UM)

Missoula Hellgate
-Bill Kelly (UM)

Missoula Sentinel
-Zack Waggenman (UM)

Sweet Grass High School (Big Timber)
-Tim Hauck (UM)

Troy
-Blaine McElmurry (UM)

Valier
-Scott Curry (UM)

Whitefish
-Thatcher Szalay (UM)

I'm sure I missed a lot of the non-UM/non-MSU NFL athletes produced by MT high schools. I find it hard to believe Helena Capital wouldn't have anyone make it to the NFL with how dominant they were for awhile there. Please add or correct any that I missed.[/quote Who was the kid that played fullback at Stanford and the Chicago Bears? I believe he had ties to Butte??

 

[grizpack]

How about the Montana HS that has produced the most NFL talent? Here's a few to get things started:

Anaconda
-Milan Lazetich (UM & Michigan)

Baker
-Shann Schillinger (UM)

Billings West
-Kirk Scrafford (UM)
-Mitch Donahue (Wyoming)

Bozeman
-Brock Coyle (UM)
-Dane Fletcher (MSU)
-Travis Dorsch (Purdue)
-Shane Collins (Arizona State)
-Mike McLeod (MSU)
-Corey Widmer (MSU)

Butte
-Colt Anderson (UM)
-Milt Popovich (UM)
-Jack McAuliffe (UM)

Chester
-Casey FitzSimmons (Carroll)

Chinook
-Mike Tilleman (UM)

CMR (Great Falls)
-Dave Dickenson (UM)
-Ryan Leaf (Washington State)
-Barry Darrow (UM)

Colstrip
-Tuff Harris (UM)

Columbus
-Dwan Edwards (Oregon State)

Custer County High School (Miles City)
-Russ Peterson (UM)

Dawson County High School (Glendive)
-Mike Person (MSU)

Drummond
-Chase Reynolds (UM)

Flathead (Kalispell)
-Lex Hilliard (UM)
-Dylan McFarland (UM)
-Brock Osweiler (Arizona State)
-Mike Reilly (Central Washington)
-Sam McCullum (MSU)

Great Falls High School
-Kris Heppner (UM)
-Dallas Neil (UM)
-Brian Salonen (UM)

Hardin
-Kroy Biermann (UM)

Havre
-Marc Mariani (UM)

Helena High School
-Dan Carpenter (UM)
-Pat Donovan (Stanford)

Missoula Big Sky
-Jordan Tripp (UM)

Missoula Hellgate
-Bill Kelly (UM)

Missoula Sentinel
-Zack Waggenman (UM)

Sweet Grass High School (Big Timber)
-Tim Hauck (UM)

Troy
-Blaine McElmurry (UM)

Valier
-Scott Curry (UM)

Whitefish
-Thatcher Szalay (UM)

I'm sure I missed a lot of the non-UM/non-MSU NFL athletes produced by MT high schools. I find it hard to believe Helena Capital wouldn't have anyone make it to the NFL with how dominant they were for awhile there. Please add or correct any that I missed.

Choteau had Mark Fellows. Played for San Diego Chargers before breaking his pelvis.

 

[Brandon Baney]

Joe Cummings graduated from Stevi in the early 90's. He played college ball at Wyoming and played linebacker and special teams for the Buffalo Bills. His last game ever in the pros was the "Music City Miracle"