University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Grizzly Football Yearbook, 1939-2018 Intercollegiate Athletics 9-1-1961 1961 Grizzly Football Yearbook Montana State University (Missoula, Mont.). Athletics Department Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/grizzlyfootball_yearbooks Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Montana State University (Missoula, Mont.). Athletics Department, "1961 Grizzly Football Yearbook" (1961). Grizzly Football Yearbook, 1939-2018. 14. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/grizzlyfootball_yearbooks/14 This Yearbook is brought to you for free and open access by the Intercollegiate Athletics at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Grizzly Football Yearbook, 1939-2018 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1961 MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY A Note From the Editor. Here is your 1961 Montana University football guide, a continuation of the new format that was established in 1959 by the MSU News Service. So far as football guides are concerned, we don’t pretend to compete with the slick printed brochures offered by many schools. This multilithed version is the Montana format for the simple reason that much of the material in any brochure is out of date once the season gets under way. As usual, this editor will follow usual procedure of providing comprehensive advance stories, feature material and photographs on a week-to-week basis, stressing mailing to areas where games are being played on a given weekend rather than saturating the field prior to the season We should also like to call your attention to “The Grizzly Gridiron,” a 175-page football history of the Grizzlies that was printed recently by the MSU Press. We feel this book is an ideal supplement to the football guide, in that it provides a complete history of all grid action at MSU, as well as considerable feature material and a list of lettermen. For those working members of the press who desire to have this research text, copies are available at the present time through the Montana University Press. Like any athletic brochure, this 1961 edition of our football brochure will probably contain some material that may never be used, and also may be entirely lacking in some particular aspects in which you are interested. For further information, pictures, features, press passes, etc., please feel free to write me. Regards, JOHN BENNITT Sports News Editor Alumni House, Montana University LI 3-7241, extensions 408-409 MONTANA'S 1961 SCHEDULE: Sept. 16 University of Wyoming at Billings 1:30 Pom. (MST) Sept. 23 Utah State University at Logan 1:30 Porno (m s t ) Sept. 30 NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY AT MISSOULA 1:30 p.m. (MST) (Homecoming) / ___\ Oct. 7 Brigham Young University at Provo 8:00p 0 m. (MST) Oct. 21 UTAH UNIVERSITY AT MISSOULA 1:30 p.m. (MST) Oct. 28 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY AT MISSOULA 1:30 p.m. (MST) Nov. U Montana State College at Bozeman 1:30p.m. (MST) Nov. 18 University of Idaho at Boise 1:30 p . 01. (MST) I960 RESULTS; Montana 21, North Dakota, 14 Montana 6, Brigham Young 7 Montana 0, Wyoming 14 Montana 26, Colorado State 14 Montana 12, Utah State 14 Montana 10, Montana State, 6 Montana 18, Idaho 14 Montana 6, Utah l6 Montana 26, Denver 12 Montana 7, New Mexico 24 THE GRIZZLY STAFF; HEAD COACH: Ray Jenkins (Colorado— 1942) ASSISTANTS: Hugh Davidson (Colorado— 1952), backs; Milt Schwenk (Wash. State— 195*0, line; Ed Chinske (Montana--1930), freshmen. TRAINER: Naseby Rhinehart (Montana--1935) EQUIPMENT MANAGER: Ruppert Holland ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: Dr. Walter (Wally) Schwank (Coe College of Iowa--193*0 FACULTY ATHLETIC REPRESENTATIVE: Dr. Earl Lory GENERAL INFORMATION: LOCATION: Missoula, Montana (45,000 population) SCHOOL COLORS: Copper, Silver and Gold NICKNAMES: Grizzlies, Silvertips ENROLLMENT: 3,944 (estimated for fall quarter) PRESIDENT; Dr. Harry K. Newburn The MSU President............ It took less than a year for the presence of DR. HARRY K. NEWBURN to make itself felt in Skyline athletic circles, as the MSU head announced recently that MSU is embarking on a de-emphasis athletic program, one that is designed to eliminate "full-ride" athletic scholarships over a four-year period that began last fall. This action came in the face of declining revenue and increasing athletic costs at the University, and probably is the first recent instance of a major University ordering a drastic cutback of its athletic program. Dr. Newburn, who assumed the MSU presidency last August, has been a school administrator for nearly 35 years. Most recently he held two different positions with the Ford Foundation, but he previously served as president of the University of Oregon from 1945 through 1953- Dr. Hewburn"s educational experience started in 1925, when he became a superintendent in the Illinois public school system. He served as a high school principal in Iowa later, then became Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Iowa prior to taking the job at Oregon. The University president is a graduate of Western Illinois State University, where he was an outstanding football and basketball performer. "Best forward passer in the Illinois Conference was Harry Newburn of Western Illinois, who threw 50-yard passes for touchdowns in the most successful football season in history for the Macomb, 111., school," is what the Spaulding Football Guide for 1924 had to say about Dr. Newburn. Dr. Newburn, despite initiating what seems to be a de-emphasis policy at MSU, is a strong advocate of a sound athletic program. "We are most heartily in favor of a well-balanced intercollegiate program, but must face facts in starting a program that can be adequately financed," he commented this spring. THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR... A graduate of Coe College in Iowa, Class of 193^ with honors, Dr. Walter "Wally" Schwank stepped into lots of problems when he took the MSU job in July of this year. Foremost was finding a new conference affiliation for the Grizzlies. A former gridder who admits his first love is coaching the game, Schwank is looking for a league that includes football and every other major sport now included in MSU's program. A man with a well-rounded career, he coached in high schools for 16 years, taught the grid sport to freshmen at the State University of Iowa and the varsity at his alma mater, Schwank places emphasis on academics. He received his Masters1 Degree and Ph. D. from Iowa in 19^5 and 1955“ M st recently , he held a post similar to his present one at South Dakota State College. An energetic worker, Schwank has embarked on expanding and improving the Grizzly booster program. THE HEAD MENTOR.... Known as earthquake, Ray Jenkins begins his fourth campaign at MSU this fall. A graduate for Colorado University in 19^+2, where he is remembered as a bruising fullback and where he later coached freshman and varsity gridders, Jenkins spent the Wo t Id War II years as a Torpedo Eoat Commander in the Pacific. Jenkins refuses to worry about the past or what might have been and concentrates on building hard-nosed football teams. Since his arrival on the MSU campus in 1958> the affable Jenkins has become known throughout Montana . as an excellent handler of men, an astute coach who studies the game with devotion, a good recruiter and a one "hell of a nice guy." In spite of less than spectacular finishes, Jenkins does claim one distinction; he and his Volkswagon are the Skyline's best gas-milage combination. THE ASSISTANTS... "The little professor" is an apt title for studious HUGH DAVIDSON, The Grizzlies 1 backfield coach who also has a Colorado background. Davidson played fullback for the buffalos from 1949-1951- Following graduation he spent two years developing outstanding high school teams in Osburn, Kansas, then moved back to the Colorado campus as freshman football coach. He continued in that capacity for four seasons before being named Jenkin’s first assistant in 1958. A capable pilot, Davidson is nationally recogonized for his ability to teach pass defense. Dubbed "the philosopher" by Montana sports-writers, MIJ.TON SCHWENK, former head coach at Wenatchee Junior College in Washington, took over the Grizzly line coaching chores a year ago last August. A 1954 graduate of Washington State College, Schwenk starred on the Cougar line and later was line and head coach at Hamilton Air Force Base in California. Following a year at Wenatchee JC, he answered Jenkin’s call in 1959- Schwenk also handles the baseball coaching duties at MSU. New, but still experienced, to Montana's coaching staff is freshman mentor Ed Chinske. A former Grizzly star on the gridiron, Chinske is a 1930 graduate of the University and was head pigsking coach at MSU in the early 1950's for three years. One of Montana's outstanding amateur golfers, Chinske is also the University's head golf coach in the spring. Head basketball coach Forrest "Frosty" Cox will also aid in teaching football at MSU during spring practice sessions. Other Important Men.... „........ One of the most respected men in the Skyline, both as a gentleman and in a professional sense, is M S E B Y RHINEHART, who is embarking upon M s 27th year as head trainer at the University this season. A native of Milwaukee, Wise., the genial trainer starred in football, basketball and track at MSU in the mid- 30*s and is still recognized as an all-time Grizzly football performer. Taking over training facilities that consisted of little more than a bottle of lini­ ment in 1935, Rhinehart has since built one of the finest training rooms in the west: RUPPERT HOLLAND, often known as "Sarge", is starting his fourth year as Grizzly equipment manager, and there's no more efficient man in this important task than the former long-time serviceman.