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MONTANA VS. MARSHALL • KICKOFF: NOON • TV: ESPN • SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 1995

TURNING 20 GRIZ CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF 1995 CHAMPIONSHIP

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GRIZZLY GAME DAY

Dream Season Grizzlies’ 1st title turns 20

Larson laughed. “It’s been fun.

Between calling and emailing, we’ve reached about 65 or ‌His hair is a little darker than 70 guys.”

They’re scattered across a it was then, a few more crinkles continent now: New Jersey to hug the edges of his facial New Mexico. The weekend of features, but Andy Larson still gets recognized every so often. Sept. 26, when the group gathPeople love talking about 1995. ers for the first time since their induction into the school’s athThe interactions almost letic hall of fame a decade ago, always play out like this: A the stories will flow like rivers business owner will come see from Montana mountains. him at First Security Bank in They’ll talk; they’ll laugh, like Missoula, where Larson has not a day has passed. worked for almost 8 years as a Like it’s still Dec. 16, 1995. commercial lender. They’ll talk,

discuss rates, and eventually The University of Marshall the visitor’s eyes will linger on wasn’t exactly a most welcomhis nameplate. ing host, Yohanse Manzanarez “Are you the Andy Larson?” remembered. the loan seeker will inquire, A few days before taking giddy like a child hoping for the field against the home affirmation.

Thundering Herd, its HunLarson will smile. He loves tington, West Virginia, campus talking about 1995.

“Yeah, that’s me,” he replies. housing the Division I-AA (now FCS) national final after Lately Larson has had winning a bid from the NCAA, more reason to discuss the Marshall’s players taunted happenings of ‘95 and the Grizzlies’ first national football the visiting Grizzlies at a pregame banquet. championship, a title capped They played cheesy cowboy dramatically on his foot with songs to introduce the Mona last-minute field goal. With Montana planning a homecom- tanans. They blared Kool & the ing celebration commemorating Gang’s “Celebration” during their own intros. Like they’d the 20-year anniversary this already won something, said fall, the athletic department looked to former players still in Manzanarez, a senior from the Garden City for help track- Great Falls.

It lit a fire. The 12-2 Grizzlies ing down their teammates. visualized stampeding over the Larson, a junior kicker from Herd that coming Saturday.

Helena 20 years ago, and Mike Each defender hand wrote Bouchee, a Missoula native and a commitment for the week, a senior linebacker who is now vice president of Rocky Moun- promise that could help Montana claim its first ever football tain Development Group, have national title and quiet the been email machines, working KURT WILSON, Missoulian‌ Marshall insolence. the phones for months.

Beloved Montana coach Don Read hugs receiver Matt Wells, who caught both Montana touchdowns in “It’s amazing how many Hotmail addresses still work,” See 1995, Page 3 the game, after the win.

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GRIZZLY GAME DAY | FROM PAGE 2

1995 Continued

“To bring intensity, to hit the ball carrier on every snap, don’t drop an interception,” Manzanarez counted off.

The Grizzlies were confident. They’d just rolled through a stretch of three playoff games outscoring opponents 163-14, an NCAA record.

All three were played in the cozy confines of Washington-Grizzly Stadium though. This was different.

“If we’re going to win this thing, we’re really going to have to earn it,” Bouchee remembered thinking as his team jogged out in front of 32,106 mostly green-clad raucous fans, a tight coalition of Grizzly supporters off to one side the only reprieve. “This is the worst possible conditions to be playing a national championship.”

Right from the kickoff it became clear the Grizzlies weren’t going to roll up the score on Marshall. The Thundering Herd carried a 12-2 record into the title game as well, built on the backs of senior running back Chris Parker and a defense as stout as any in the country.

Neither side gave much room as the offenses struggled to find a rhythm. Even Big Sky Conference recordsmashing quarterback Dave Dickenson was bothered, rushing throws and taking rare hits because of Marshall’s pressure.

Both sides were shut out of the red zone through a quarter.

“What you saw, you talk about punching someone in the mouth,”

KURT WILSON, Missoulian‌

Senior defensive end Yohanse Manzanarez celebrates the national championship. said Manzanarez, now the owner of Epic Freight Solutions living in Orange County, California.

Montana got close with about 6 minutes remaining in the first quarter, but Marshall’s defense again stalled the Grizzlies around the 30-yard line.

With a long fourth down coming, Larson trotted out to attempt a 48-yard field goal, his longest of the year.

3-0, Grizzlies.

But Marshall was quick with an answer. Freshman quarterback Chad Pennington, a future first-round NFL draft pick and 11-year pro, drove Marshall deep into Griz territory to start the second. Like its counterpart in green, Montana held firm when needed.

The Herd settled for a 39-yard field goal, slipped delicately inside the left upright by junior Tim Openlander.

3-3, tie.

Dickenson’s ‘95 season was the kind every athlete hopes for, yet can’t really imagine possible.

The Great Falls native threw for 4,176 yards, and 38 touchdowns in 11 games, rounding out a Grizzly career that – until quite recently – left him atop the Big Sky’s career leaderboard. His season numbers don’t include postseason play either, a statistical choice by the NCAA at the time.

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GRIZZLY GAME DAY | FROM PAGE 3

1995 Continued

games, 1995’s stats swell to 5,676 yards and 51 TDs. And as was typical all season, the Walter Payton Award winner couldn’t be kept from the end zone for long.

In Montana’s 2-minute offense just before the half, the senior QB found junior Joe Douglass, of Salem, Oregon, for 31 yards on a screen. Two plays later he hit senior Matt Wells from the slot on a 24-yard TD strike 59 seconds before the break.

10-3, Montana. “No play was ever meant to go to one person, but if you ran a good route and got open, you had a chance of getting the ball,� explained Wells, an Ashland, Oregon, native now working as a regional vice president for AIG in Kansas City, Missouri.

Pennington couldn’t muster his own quick strike. Marshall’s second

snap following the TD saw the Grizzlies break into the backfield. Pennington floated a ball down the left sideline well short of tight end Jermaine Wiggins.

And right into the hands of senior Montana cornerback and San Diegoan Mike Temple, who returned it to midfield plus 15 yards on a late hit out of bounds.

Larson had no trouble with the length, trying a 37-yarder as time expired, but the kicker pulled the boot wide left. “I remember the coaches saying, ‘If this is the best they’ve got, we’re gonna win this game,’�

Bouchee recounted. “We were shutting them down.�

But there was still plenty of football to be played.      The 1995 team stood on the shoulders of the Grizzlies before them.

Since coach Don Read took over in 1986, Montana had endured just

one losing season. UM’s conference championship in 1993 was its first in more than a decade. The 1994 team had reached the semifinals, only its second push so deep in the I-AA playoffs along with the ‘89 team. “First getting to Montana, winning the Big Sky and making the playoffs would be considered a successful season,�

Manzanarez said. “That changed with us.�

It was a mindset shift under Read, added junior defensive tackle Brian Toone, a Butte boy. “When you say to yourself you’re going to accomplish something, there’s no other option,� said Toone, now a jeweler in Spokane. “You had a rag-tag bunch of Montana guys that made something happen because they willed it to.� “The reality is, as a football team, I think we felt invincible,� continued receiver Mike Erhardt, a senior out of Eugene, Oregon. “We started

to realize how good we could be.�

But Marshall was plenty good as well. The Herd marched the field to start the third quarter, riding its record-book runner to paydirt. Parker, who still holds program marks in rushes, yards and TDs over both a season and a career, went 10 yards into the teeth of Montana’s defense to find the end zone. The drive lasted 11 plays.

10-10, tie.

On offense, the Grizzlies were being handled

by Marshall’s massive defensive line. Sophomore defensive end B.J. Cohen and junior tackle Billy Lyon, both future pros, gave Dickenson headaches like a pounding drum. And they were just as consistent. “I think I got hit 20-some times and See 1995, Page 7

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Griz Nation invades Marshall Stadium for the game.

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Joe Douglass caught eight passes for 102 yards in the 1995 title game.

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GRIZZLY GAME DAY | MORE PHOTOS

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KURT WILSON, Missoulian‌

Dave Dickenson throws for one of his 48 passes in the game. He completed 29 of them.

“I locked it in extra hard and I tucked it with every piece of my body I could possibly find,” said receiver Mike Erhardt at the time about his 20-yard reception on fourth down to give Montana a chance to win the championship.

KURT WILSON, Missoulian‌

ABOVE: Marshall running back Erik Thomas fumbles the ball after being hit by Montana’s Jason Crebo and Sean Goicoechea (9).

LEFT: The “Butte Connection” of Randy Riley, left, and Brian Toone force a safety on Marshall quarterback Chad Pennington.

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GRIZZLY GAME DAY | FROM PAGE 4

1995 Continued

The lead continued to grow for the Griz as Dickenson again found Wells, his favorite target in ‘95 and Montana’s then career leader in receptions

KURT WILSON, Missoulian‌

Dave Dickenson is sacked by blitzing Marshall cornerback Jayson Grayson. and yards, for an early fourth-quarter score.

19-10, Montana “I think Matt is probably the most underrated receiver in the history of our program,” Dickenson said. “He had a huge game, again, pretty much like every game. … Matt’s biggest games were always against the top opponents so it didn’t surprise me.”

The Thundering Herd would not be embarrassed on their home turf though. Openlander kicked his second field goal on the ensuing possession and then Pennington led Marshall into Griz territory again.

Parker had the clincher, shedding tacklers like heavy coats in spring

while rushing for a 26-yard TD to quiet Montana’s small contingent of travelers.

20-19, Marshall, its first lead of the game with 4:45 to play.

The difference in Marshall’s defense was the Herd could get pressure on Dickenson without the aid of a blitz, Erhardt remembered.

They’d save blitzes for third-and-short situations and create havoc.

“They’d make the QB make a play against the blitz,” said Erhardt, who lives in Portland, Oregon, and works as northwest general manager of Southern Wine and Spirits. “And normally,

any time a team showed blitz, Dickie would put us in a position we were gonna win.”

The Griz needed one more “Super Dave” moment as Montana’s

comeback stalled at the 50-yard-line with 3:14 to play. Facing a fourth-and-3, UM sent three receivers to the left, Erhardt alone to the right in single coverage.

Dickenson eyed down three blitzing linebackers.

Erhardt, matched up with senior Marshall See 1995, Page 10

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sacked eight or 10 times,” said Dickenson, a longtime CFL great after his days in burnt orange and currently the offensive coordinator for the Calgary Stampeders.

“I probably deserved some of them, but we really struggled.”

Montana’s defense, under the radar for so long thanks to that prolific offense, answered the call.

After freshman punter Dallas Neil, another Great Falls guy, buried the Herd deep at their own 5, the Grizzly D-line got the kind of push Marshall enjoyed all day. Toone cut around the center and bullrushed Pennington from the middle while junior defensive end Randy Riley, his former teammate at Butte High, crashed from the end.

They converged on Pennington 3 yards in the end zone. The QB eluded the sack, but his weak throw while holding off the linemen with one hand landed helplessly short of any receiver. The referees flagged him for intentional grounding in the end zone – a safety.

12-10, Montana.

“As cliché as it was, Brian and I told each other that we’d meet at the quarterback,” said Riley, a district manger at Wells Fargo in Helena these days. “You get in the crouch and get our eyes on the corner and try and get off as quick as possible. I got by the offensive tackle without being touched.”

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Pos.

Ht.

Wt.

Year

Hometown

WR

5-7

165

Jr.

Billings, Mont.

Justin Hazel

CB

6-1

190

Jr.

Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Mike Wilson

WR

5-7

160

Sr.

Wahiawa, Hawaii Ashland, Ore.

1

Nathan Dolan

2 4 5

Matt Wells

WR

5-9

160

Sr.

6

Justin Gaines

CB

5-10

175

Fr.

Niceville, Fla

8

Mike Erhardt

WR

6-4

205

Jr.

Eugene, Ore.

9

Sean Goicoechea

SS

6-1

205

Jr.

Stevensville, Mont.

14 Ryan Palma

FS

6-1

205

Sr.

Canby, Ore

15 Dave Dickenson

QB

5-11

175

Sr.

Great Falls, Mont.

16 Brian Ah Yat

QB

6-1

180

Fr.

Honolulu, Hawaii

17 Josh Paffhausen

QB

6-0

175

So.

Butte, Mont.

19 Mike Temple

CB

5-10

180

Sr.

San Diego, Calif.

Moscow, Idaho

21 Josh Branen

RB

5-7

185

So.

23 Joe Douglass

WR

6-0

180

Jr.

Salem, Ore.

25 Trevor Utter

WR

6-1

180

Fr.

Eureka, Mont.

26 Chase Greene

WR

6-0

170

Sr.

Deer Park, Wash.

Missoula, Mont.

27 Jake Dennehy

FS

6-0

180

So.

28 Justin Olsen

WR

5-10

170

Fr.

Helena, Mont.

30 Kelly Stensrud

RB

6-1

190

Sr.

Missoula, Mont.

P

6-3

200

Fr.

Great Falls, Mont.

Richland, Wash.

32 Dallas Neil 33 Brian Gales

RB

5-9

170

Fr.

34 Blaine McElmurry

FS

6-0

195

Jr.

Troy, Mont.

OLB

5-11

203

Sr.

Cut Bank, Mont.

35 Mike Kowalski

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37 Jason Crebo

ILB

6-3

225

So.

Helena, Mont.

38 Larry Tofanelli

WR

5-11

170

Sr.

Stockton, Calif.

40 Chris Morton

RB

5-10

223

Sr.

San Jose, Calif.

41 Mark Hampe

LB

6-2

224

Jr.

Great Falls, Mont.

42 Mike Bouchee

LB

6-2

231

Jr.

Missoula, Mont.

43 Randy Riley

DE

6-3

240

Jr.

Butte, Mont.

44 Josh Remington

SS

6-1

195

So.

Kalispell, Mont.

45 David Sirmon 46 Greg Fitzgerald

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6-1

220

Jr.

Walla Walla, Wash.

ILB

6-0

222

So.

Columbus, Mont.

47 Andy Larson

K

6-1

180

Jr.

Helena, Mont.

48 Joe Lehman

DE

6-3

225

So.

Coos Bay, Ore.

50 Yohanse Manzanarez

DE

6-3

267

Sr.

Great Falls, Mont.

52 Dave Hoit

OG

6-1

290

Fr. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

54 Randy Allik

DT

6-2

260

Fr.

55 Eric Buehler

DE

6-3

230

Fr.

Butte, Mont.

56 Eric Simonson

OT

6-5

290

Sr.

Plentywood, Mont.

57 Troy Lucas

OG

6-3

260

Sr.

Canby, Ore.

58 Eric Hart

LB

6-0

202

So.

Shenandoah, Va.

OG

6-4

285

Jr.

Kalispell, Mont.

61 Scott Curry

OT

6-5

250

Fr.

Valier, Mont.

Missoula, Mont.

C

6-4

278

Jr.

69 Troy Casper

OT

6-4

26-

So.

Billings, Mont.

70 Marty Duffin

DT

6-2

270

Sr.

Idaho Falls, Idaho

71 Bob Fenton

OG

6-3

270

Sr.

Medford, Ore.

73 Jeff Zellick

OG

6-5

290

Jr.

Springfield, Ore.

75 Jason Baker

OT

6-7

300

So.

Coos Bay, Ore.

K

5-10

170

Fr.

Lake Mary, Fla.

87 Eleu Kane

WR

5-10

165

Fr.

Honolulu, Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii

85 David Henkel 88 Raul Pacheco

WR

5-9

170

Fr.

89 Brian Toone

DT

6-2

275

Jr.

Butte, Mont.

90 Corey Falls

DE

6-2

244

Jr.

Medford, Ore.

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93 Ryan Thompson

DT

6-4

275

Jr.

Missoula. Mont.

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95 Marc Bebout

TE

6-4

230

Sr.

Riverton, Wyo.

97 Mike Lorentz

DE/DT

6-4

260

Fr.

Thornton, Colo.

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LT 56 Eric Simo Sr., 6-5, 2 LG 60 Mike Agee Jr., 6-5, 285

K 47 Andy Larson Jr., 6-1, 180 RB 30 Kelly Stensrud Sr., 6-1, 185

QB 15 Dave Dickenson Sr., 5-11, 175

C 62 David Kempfert Jr., 6-4, 278 RG 73 Jeff Zellick Jr., 6-5, 285

RT 75 Jason Baker So., 6-7, 294

WR 8 Mike Erhardt Jr., 6-4, 205

WR 88 Raul Pacheco Fr., 5-9, 170

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60 Mike Agee 62 David Kempfert

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WR 5 Matt Wells Sr., 5-7, 160

98 Wade Scates

DT

6-3

240

So.

Spokane, Wash.

99 Eric Manzanarez

DT

6-3

230

Fr.

Great Falls, Mont.

OLB 37 Jason Crebo So., 6-4, 224

LE 50 Yohan Sr., 6-3

FS 34 Blaine McElmurry Jr., 6-1, 205 MLB 42 Mike Bouchee Jr., 6-2, 241

SS 9 Sean Goicoechea Jr., 6-1, 205

P 32 Dallas Neil Fr., 6-3, 200

CB 19 Mike Temple Sr., 5-10, 180

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OLB 16 Jerome Embry Jr., 6-0, 216

RE 5 B.J. Cohen So., 6-3, 240

FS 9 Thomas Maxwell So., 5-8, 173

MLB 28 Larry McCloud So., 6-4, 230

T 86 Billy Lyon Jr., 6-5, 290

T 57 Will Edwards Sr., 5-9, 256

OLB 45 Jermaine Swafford Jr., 5-11, 221

LE 96 John Duncan Jr., 6-3, 235

CB 2 Justin Hazel Jr., 6-1, 195

P3 Chris Hanson Fr.

SS 21 Scott Smythe Jr., 6-1, 195

CB 25 Melvin Cunningham Sr., 5-11, 182

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RT 60 Jamie Wilson Jr., 6-7, 283

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RG 59 Aaron Ferguson Jr., 6-3, 280

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C 73 Dave Honick Sr, 6-4, 253

QB 10 Chad Pennington Fr., 6-3, 190

LG 79 Buck Manning Sr., 6-6, 360

RB 20 Javonne Darling So., 5-9, 197

LT 70 William Pannall Sr., 6-4, 306

T 70 Marty Duffin Sr., 6-2, 275

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T 93 Ryan Thompson Jr., 6-4, 285 OLB 45 David Sirmon Jr., 6-2, 225 RE 90 Corey Falls Jr., 6-2, 230

TE 89 Jermaine Wiggins So., 6-3, 245

WR 1 Tim Martin Jr., 5-9, 176

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GRIZZLY GAME DAY | FROM PAGE 7

1995 Continued

CB Melvin Cunningham, faked a fade to the outside and cut toward the middle on a threestep slant route. All he needed was one stride inside the defender.

He got more than that.

Senior running back Kelly Stensrud, a Missoula product, picked up a blitzer to give Dickenson an extra second. The QB threaded a throw to Erhardt in motion.

“I could see him right in front of me catch that ball and with his size (Erhardt is 6-foot-4), even if he falls forward that’s about 8 yards,” Wells said.

The Griz got more than that. Erhardt rumbled for 20 before Cunningham corralled him, pounding the turf in frustration after “The Catch.”

The Griz pushed it inside the 10 three plays later before Dickenson, the surest thing maybe in Montana history, bounced a throw behind Wells. On third-and-4 from the 8, Dickenson’s Grizzly career ended with an incompletion.

“I was pissed off,” Dickenson said. “I didn’t want it to come down to that. I wanted us to be able to drive it in.

You want to finish the game on the field as an offense.”

With 44 seconds left in the season, Larson came on for his third field goal try of the day.

The lie wasn’t long, just 25 yards, but flush extreme right. Larson needed to pull it slightly inward from the college field’s wide hash marks.

The snap from Eric

Andy Larson celebrates his 25-yard field goal to win the 1995 national championship.

Manzanarez was clean, ditto the hold by Larry Tofanelli, and Larson sent the ball above and inside the left upright — right into Grizzly lore.

Like a dream, the moment seems surreal 20 years later. Like seeing into someone else’s memory. Larson remembers the umpires’ arms mimicking the goal posts

above them, sending the kicker bolting for the sideline in euphoria. His teammates caught him from behind and tackled him, stealing his wind.

“Somehow we didn’t get a 15-yard penalty to back us up,” Larson said with a chuckle. “Nowadays they’d probably give a celebration penalty.

“It was definitely

scary to think if that had not went through what would have happened to my career or the Griz.”

A flag could have undone the Grizzlies — “Don’t forget the kickoffs for Montana have been absolutely atrocious,” an ESPN announcer reminded fans moments after the goal – with 39 seconds still remaining.

decade of unheard-of prosperity for Montana.

The Griz have made six more championship game appearances, the next in ‘96 with the most recent in 2009. UM earned another crown in 2001.

Montana won 12 straight Big Sky titles starting in 1998 and no D-I team claimed more games in the 2000s (119).

“The state was craving something like that,” Dickenson said. “Montana was always seen as the underdog. I mean, ‘How the hell are they gonna win it? They have no people up there.’

“Maybe Montana football was on the map before that, but it gave our whole school and the state validity. We are a team to be reckoned with. The facilities were starting to become top notch. We were getting the best crowds.

“Nobody wanted to go to the Cats, everyone wanted to be a Griz, I’m telling ya. Great Falls was a split city up until about that point, but for the next however many years, Montana was the place to be.”

The Grizzly luster may have dimmed recently.

UM’s last conference title came in 2009 (a first-place finish in KURT WILSON, Missoulian‌ 2011 was vacated due to NCAA infractions) and the league seems to have caught up to Montana.

Marshall managed But as the Grizzlies’ midfield in a flash and greatest generation Openlander came out prepares to return to for a prayer of a kick, a 63-yarder that would run Missoula, reminding fans of a fall that would never out the clock. end, hope for the future The ball landed harmlessly at the 3-yard line. has a renewed vigor.

“I am fully looking forward to the day they can No program hinges finally win another big on a moment, but the one and get back on top,” Grizzlies’ win in 1995 Bouchee said wistfully. kicked off more than a

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GRIZZLY GAME DAY | MORE PHOTOS LEFT: Matt Wells, right, and Dave Dickenson celebrate on the bench as time runs out and Montana gets its first national championship.

The team hoists the national championship trophy to show the thousands of fans who greeted them at the airport back in Missoula after the game.

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BELOW: Montana fans packed the downtown bars to watch the game on television.

Here, they celebrate a score by Montana.

MICHAEL GALLACHER, Missoulian‌

KURT WILSON, Missoulian‌

Montana kicker Andy Larson gets a hug after winning the game with a field goal in the last 39 seconds.

A12 — Missoulian, Saturday, August 15, 2015

GRIZZLY GAME DAY | MORE PHOTOS

KURT WILSON, Missoulian‌

Kicker Andy Larson celebrates a 48-yard field goal early in the Marshall game.

MICHAEL GALLACHER, Missoulian‌

Thousands of fans showed up to greet the Griz back home after the game.

AT RIGHT: Matt Wells, Mike Kowalski and Dave Dickenson celebrate the national championship back home in Missoula.

MICHAEL GALLACHER, Missoulian‌

AT LEFT: Dave Dickenson endures one of the 10 sacks by the Thundering Herd in the game.

TOM BAUER, Missoulian‌

Missoulian, Saturday, August 15, 2015 — A13

Pattee Creek Market has USDA Choice Black Angus Beef so good that you’ll want to tailgate every meal.

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A14 — Missoulian, Saturday, August 15, 2015

GRIZZLY GAME DAY | MORE PHOTOS

KURT WILSON, Missoulian‌

ABOVE: Montana’s Mike Erhardt watches this pass get out of reach after it was batted by Marshall’s AllAmerican cornerback Melvin Cunningham.

MICHAEL GALLACHER, Missoulian‌

AT LEFT: The Grizzly entourage boards the plane to Huntington and the national championship.

KURT WILSON, Missoulian‌

ABOVE: Montana’s Marty Duffin stacks up Marshall’s freshman quarterback Chad Pennington.

TOM BAUER, Missoulian‌

AT LEFT: Montana sophomore running back Josh Branen slips the grasp of Marshall’s Billy Lyon.

Missoulian, Saturday, August 15, 2015 — A15

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