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* Montana Grizzlies football – Since the 1990s, the Griz have established themselves as one of the most dominant football teams in both the Big Sky Conference and in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision ( known as Division I-AA football before 2006 ).
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Montana and Grizzlies
With the diminishment of the rivalries with both U of I and BSU in football, the Weber State Wildcats of nearby Ogden, Utah, Montana State Bobcats of Bozeman, Montana, and the Montana Grizzlies of Missoula, Montana have become ISU's main football rivals.
The Bengals also enjoy intense rivalries with both the University of Montana Grizzlies, and Montana State University Bobcats.
The athletic teams are nicknamed the Montana Grizzlies, often shortened to Griz or Lady Griz ( when referring to women's teams ).
* Montana Grizzlies men's basketball – The men's basketball team has established itself in recent years as a power in the Big Sky, and was the conference representative to the NCAA Division I Men's basketball tournament in 2005 and 2006.
* Montana Grizzlies women's basketball – The women's basketball team is the most successful team in the Big Sky Conference.
The bubble screen was essentially created by Don Read when he was head coach of the Montana Grizzlies, and Lou Holtz, head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, brought the play into prominence after calling Read and asking for the play.
The University won its first NCAA national championship in any sport on December 19, 2008 when the Spiders football team defeated the Montana Grizzlies, 24 – 7, in the NCAA Division I Football Championship.
He joined the football team and in 1965 kicked a 59-yard field goal, then a college football record, against the rival Montana Grizzlies.
After graduating from Arlington Heights High School in Illinois, Betters played college Division I football for the University of Montana Grizzlies from 1974 to 1976, then transferred to the University of Nevada, Reno in 1977.
Montana and football
His teammates on the football team included wide receiver Trey Smith, son of Will Smith, and quarterback Nick Montana, son of former NFL quarterback Joe Montana.
Former University of Montana Grizzly basketball coach Don Holst is a PHS graduate as is former University of Montana assistant football coach Kraig Paulson.
A three-year letterman in football for the Cougars, Moos was on the WSU athletic staff from 1982 – 1990, then was athletic director for the University of Montana and the University of Oregon.
Joseph Clifford " Joe " Montana, Jr. ( born June 11, 1956 ), nicknamed Joe Cool, Golden Joe, The Golden Great and Comeback Joe, is a retired professional football player, a hall of fame quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs.
Joe Montana expressed an early interest in sports, and it was Montana Sr. who first taught him the game of football.
Montana started to play youth football when he was just eight years old, aided in part by his father.
During his formative years, Montana took an interest in baseball and basketball, in addition to football.
Although Montana turned down the scholarship, he seriously considered NCSU because of a promise that he could play both basketball and football for the university.
In 2006, thirty-two years after Montana had graduated, Ringgold renamed their football stadium " Joe Montana Stadium.
When Montana arrived at Notre Dame in the fall of 1974, the football program was coached by Ara Parseghian.
Idaho and Montana, who were members of the Pacific Coast Conference from 1922 until 1958 and 1950 respectively, never finished near the top in the PCC football standings.
During the first season Dana Carvey appeared as a cast regular on Saturday Night Live, Joe Montana and Walter Payton co-hosted the show and both appeared in a Church Lady skit for a game of football with Church Lady.
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* 1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7. 5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
* 1996 – Suspected " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States.
* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.
An extensive survey of three genera of frogs in Montana show that they were unaffected by the K – Pg extinction event and survived apparently unchanged.
* 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U. S. states.
* 1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, wide and thick.
* 1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1, 500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
* 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
* 1870 – In Montana, U. S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
* 1996 – An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
* 1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
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