Test your knowledge of Montana’s best athletes
Take this twelve-question quiz to see how much you know about the state’s best athletes
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Chester Harris,
St. Xavier
This star Carlisle Indian School athlete from the Crow Reservation scored on a 103-yard kickoff return using the infamous “hidden-ball trick” in a college football game against powerful Harvard while playing for Pop Warner.
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Charles Dillon, Wyola
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Vedie Himsl, Plevna
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Lance Allred, Pinesdale
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Steve Reeves, Glasgow
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Denise Curry,
Fort Benton
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Larry Questad, Livingston
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Joe Montana, Ismay
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Eymard Left Hand, Pryor
Charles Dillon,
Wyola
Henry LaForge,
Crow Agency
Jim Otten, Lewistown
Vedie Himsl,
Plevna
Dave McNally, Billings
Val Glynn,
Fort Keogh
The “pride” of his hometown, this eventual college and pro baseball star “discovered” Mr. Cub,
Ernie Banks, when he was scouting director for the Chicago Cubs.
Lance Allred, Pinesdale
Joe Cummings, Stevensville
Hal Wetzsteon,
Sula
Jim Tyack,
Florence
Now an international speaker, the first legally deaf player in the NBA spent the first seven years of his life in a small Bitterroot Valley community.
Roy Robinson,
St. Marie
Rick Has The Pipe, Harlem
Jon Puckett, Peerless
Steve Reeves, Glasgow
A man once described as “The best-looking,
best-built man God has ever created” – a Mr. America, Mr. World and Mr. Universe – was raised in NE Montana before moving to Hollywood to star in “Hercules” and other films.
Vicki Heebner,
Three Forks
Deb Prevost,
Sidney
Denise Curry,
Fort Benton
Joanne Slifka,
Toston
One of the greatest female basketball players in American history, she spent her formative years in a small Missouri River town before moving on to become an All-American at UCLA and a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee.
Larry Questad, Livingston
Russ Sweet,
Miles City
Patrick Casey,
Laurel
Jon King,
Nashua
He was once the fastest human in the world and then the fastest white man, and he grew up near the banks of the Yellowstone River before running in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Kroy Biermann, Hardin
Dwan Edwards, Columbus
Jerry Kramer,
Jordan
Scott Curry,
Valier
The state’s only native NFL Hall of Famer hails from this remote town in Montana’s “Big Dry”.
Roger Rouse, Opportunity
Marvin Camel, Ronan
Ritchie Fontaine, Bonner
Francis Turley, Musselshell
“The hardest I was ever hit was by a Montana cowboy,” boxing legend Muhammad Ali said of this rugged boxer who grew up in a rural part of the state.
Dave Johnson, Missoula
Dave Dickenson, Great Falls
Dave McNally, Billings
Dave Gustafson, Simms
Reebok made this phenomenal all-round Montana athlete and his fellow U.S. star Dan O’Brien the centerpiece of their memorable “Dan and Dave” campaign before the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
Jonathan Takes Enemy, Hardin
Elvis Old Bull,
Lodge Grass
Larry Pretty Weasel, Crow Agency
George Yellow Eyes, Ashland
Often referred to as “Montana’s Magic”, this Crow basketball legend led his high school to three consecutive state championships and was the only high school athlete on Sports Illustrated’s Top 50 list of Montana greats in 1999.
Wayne Estes, Anaconda
Ed Kalafat, Anaconda
Rocky Tollefson, Saco
Willie Weeks,
Wolf Point
The nation’s second-leading scorer as a college basketball senior, he died by electrocution at the scene of a car accident hours after setting his school’s career scoring record and one night after proposing marriage; he was drafted posthumously by the Los Angeles Lakers.
John Elway,
Peerless
Brock Osweiler, Brockton
Joe Montana,
Ismay
Tom Brady,
Brady
Though the honoree never played in the state, this tiny outpost was briefly renamed for this eventual Hall of Fame quarterback when he was starring in the NFL.
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Jerry Kramer, Jordan
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Francis Turley, Musselshell
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Dave Johnson, Missoula
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Elvis Old Bull, Lodge Grass
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Wayne Estes, Anaconda
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A man once described as “The best-looking,
best-built man God has ever created” – a Mr. America,
Mr. World and Mr. Universe – was raised in NE Montana before moving to Hollywood to star in “Hercules” and other films.
Elvis Old Bull,
Lodge Grass
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