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Idaho State Football QuickFacts 2012 Idaho State Football Quick Facts Team Information LB Jake Pele (6-1, 241, Jr.) Location Pocatello, Idaho 2011 Record: 2-9, 1-7 (BSC) LB Mitch Beckstead (6-0, 242, So.) Founded 1901 Offense: Spread DL David Forester (6-2, 255, So.) Enrollment 14,489 Defense: 3/4 DL Austin Graves (6-2, 245, So.) Conference Big Sky Conference Lettermen Returning/Lost: 37/17 LB Ethan Monroe (5-11, 245, Sr.) Nickname Bengals Starters Returning/Lost: Offense 9/2; Defense 4/7; LB Keelan McCaffery (6-1, 215, So.) Colors Black and Orange Stadium Holt Arena/12,000 Idaho State Football Offensive Personnel SPECIAL TEAMS STARTERS RETURNING President Dr. Arthur Vailas PR Jon Davidson (6-0, 183, Jr.) Director of Athletics Jeff Tingey OFFENSIVE STARTERS RETURNING KR Derek Graves (6-0, 175, Sr.) Athletics Phone 282-4668 WR Derek Graves (6-0, 175, Sr.) LS Erik Jacobson (6-5, 265, Jr.) Ticket Office Phone 282-FANS WR Rodrick Rumble (6-2, 210, Sr.) PK Brendon Garcia (5-11, 150, Jr.) Athletics Website www.isubengals.com OL Mark Clampitt (6-2, 283, Sr.) OL John van Vilet (6-2, 268, Sr.) Why the Bengals? How did Idaho State’s athletic teams become the Bengals, Idaho State Athletics Communications QB Kevin Yost (6-1, 195, Sr.) when there just aren’t any to be found in the region? A good Asst. AD/Media Relations: Steve Schaack OL Nick Beckman (6-5, 275, So.) question. 921 S. 8th, Stop 8173 TE Josh Hill (6-5, 229, Sr.) Originally, when the school was the Academy of Idaho in 1902, the school’s athletic teams were dubbed “Bantams”, and it Pocatello, Idaho 83209 OL Erik Jacobson (6-5, 265, Jr.) stayed that way until 1917, when J.A. Fogt became head football Office: (208)282-2621 OL Jim Bagley (6-3, 265, So.) coach. Now Idaho Tech, the team’s nickname was changed to “Tigers”, Fax: (208) 282-3659 in part due to Ralph Hutchinson, who was the Director of Physical Education and Athletics. Hutchinson was a graduate of Princeton Schaack Cell: (208)406-3570 OFFENSIVE CONTRIBUTERS RETURNING (the Tigers), so he founded the school’s first booster club, the “I” Club, E-mail: [email protected] RB Daniel McSurdy (5-11, 195, So.) and brought the “Tiger” mascot with him. Website: www.isubengals.com OL Josh Cutler (6-3, 302, So.) When the school became the University of Idaho-Southern Branch in 1927, the nickname switched to “Bengals”, although RB Aaron Prier (5-10, 188, So.) many newspaper and yearbook accounts refer to the team by both Coaching Staff WR Luke Austin (6-1, 185, Jr.) “Bengals” and “Tigers”. The freshman teams during this time suffered Head Coach Mike Kramer the unfortunate distinction of the nickname “Kittens”. As a branch of the University of Idaho, the school’s colors Record at Idaho State 2-9 Idaho State Football Defensive Personnel were black and gold, just like the Vandals, and although the official Overall Record 79-84 (13 years) colors switched to black and orange sometime in the 1940s, the Defensive Backs Daniel Drayton DEFENSIVE STARTERS RETURNING football team wore black jerseys with gold trim through the 60s. The squad also used red numerals for a while in the late 1940s, and the Inside WR Matt Troxel DB Donovan Henley (6-0, 178, Sr.) squads’ 1970 home jerseys were more red than orange. It wasn’t until Offensive Line Derrick Roche DB Tanner Davis (5-10 208, Jr.) 1971 that a truly orange jersey was used by the football team for the Associate HC/OC/QBs Don Bailey DL James Bergren (6-4, 248, Jr.) first time. The school’s official colors are black and orange (PMS 165), Defensive Line Todd Bates DL Jake Rouser (6-3, 242, Sr.) and the trim color is gold (PMS 137), a small remembrance to harken Running Backs Ryan Smaha back to ISU’s rich history. Outside Wide Receivers Anthony Tucker DEFENSIVE CONTRIBUTERS RETURNING Inside Linebackers Rudy Griffin DB Jon Davidson (6-0, 183, Jr.) Dir. of Football and Video Operations Tom Steiner DB Ed Pritchett (5-9, 185, So.) LB Demetrius Allen (5-11, 217 So.) Bill Byrne served as the Direc- Other Notable Alumni Notable Idaho State Alumni tor of Athletics at Texas A&M since 2002, after spending Hans Gregory Ashbaker World Famous Tenor over 10 years in the same Don Aslett Cleaning Authority & Author capacity with the Univer- Terrel Bell Former Secretary, U.S. Department sity of Nebraska. Byrne was of Education honored by ISU with the Dr. Gary K. Bertsch Director of Center for 2005 Professional Achieve- International Trade and Security A&M ment Award. He retired in the AS Ron Boone Radio/TV Broadcaster for the Utah EX T summer of 2012. Jazz OF Y John Foreman Producer of the movie “Butch Cas- S sidy and the Sundance Kid” OURTE URE L C I. Herbert Gordon Peabody Award Winner, former C C NBC Executive M Marvin Lewis is the S VID Steve Hayes 10-Year Veteran of the National A PIC head coach for the Cincinnati D M / Y C L Basketball Association M Bengals. He won a Super Bowl O E Florence Bean James Theatre Director Y .S. NGDON S ring in 2000 as the Defensive A U L Y General Amos Jordan Brigadier U.S. General S Coordinator of the Baltimore NN OURTE and President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and ALS C A Ravens, which set an NFL re- OURTE UE ENG C S International Studies B cord for fewest points allowed Michael C. Ruettgers is the CEO TI A Wally Kelly President, Viacom Outdoor Ed Sanders won the Sue Ann Langdon starred on both Stacy Dragila won the Olympic Gold Medal in the in a season. of EMC Courtesy Thkingse Minnesota V Olympic Gold Medal in stage and screen, most notably on inaugural women’s pole vault in Sydney in 2000. Dirk Koetter Offensive Coordinator, Jacksonville INCINN C Corporation, the second Jared Allen is a three-time NFL All-Pro with the heavyweight boxing for the the Jackie Gleason Show, the Andy Dragila at one time held every single world record Jaguars HE T largest business in the United United States in 1952. Peter C. Kole Chair of the New England Albanian Minnesota Vikings. Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke possible in the pole vault. Y States. S Show, and Happy Days. She also Relief Organization (NEARO) OURTE Senator James McClure U.S. Senator 1973-91, starred in Elvis Presley’s Roust- C about. William Petersen is a Namesake of The James A. McClure Federal Building veteran actor who is the and Courthouse in Boise U.S. Army Maj. Gen. executive producer and Lewis J. Neal President of NOXSO Corporation Antonio Taguba authored formerly starred as Gil Gris- Les Purce President of Evergreen State the investigative report som in the nation’s most College about abuses of Iraqis at David Thomas World renowned dinosaur sculptor S popular show CSI: Crime ER Merril Hoge is a the Abu Ghraib prison at L Scene Investigation Dr. Claude Zobell Marine Microbiologist for the TEE reporter for ESPN, Scripps Oceanographic Institute the hands of American S EN S Y and host of the M soldiers. Taguba is the R URGH ETER SB A Edge/NFL Match- P Roger Williams is a world famous S second-highest ranking ITT TE am P I A up. T Filipino-American officer pianist, who has had 18 of his LL I S THE in the U.S. Army albums certified gold by the W Y OF S NITED Y Recording Industry Association of S U ams OURTE I THE America. C OURTE LL Y I S C W OURTE OGER C R Holt Arena History 1981 National Champions HOLT ARENA FAST FACTS In the fall of 1981, the Idaho State Univer- Size: 400 feet by 420 feet, by 108 feet, encompassing 4 1/2 acres Turf: Astroturf sity football team shocked the nation, as the Track: ProWest 200-meter Bengals capped an improbable season with a Seating: Football, 11,767 bucket seats; Track, 12,000 Cost: Exactly $2.8 million. ISU students voted in 1968 to increase their own I-AA national championship. fees to finance construction, which was completed in 1970. Largest Crowds: The season was all the more remarkable Att Year Opponent because in 1979 the Bengals went 0-11, and 13,895 1980 vs. Boise State (November 22) 13,444 1981 vs. Weber State the championship came just 14 months after 13,000 1971 vs. Boise State ending the longest losing streak in I-AA history 12,983 1983 vs. Idaho 12,500 1970 vs. Idaho at 19 games. 12,400 1970 vs. Boise State After an opening win over Eastern Wash- The 1981 National 12,176 1984 vs. Boise State Championship Ring 12,153 1981 vs. Rhode Island ington, the Bengals took out defending national 12,101 1982 vs. Boise State 12,008 1981 vs. Utah State champion Boise State in Boise 21-10. They fol- 12,003 1981 vs. South Carolina State lowed that with home wins over a strong Nevada team and Northern Arizona, 12,000 1975 vs. Boise State 12,000 1972 vs. Idaho and a road win at Portland State. 12,000 1970 vs. Montana ISU lost at Montana 24-21, but they would not falter again. They knocked Television: The following network telecasts originated in Holt Arena: off Idaho on the road 24-14, and then scored impressive home wins over Mon- 10-21-72 ISU vs.