Hall of Fame
Biastoch, Robert
Robert Biastoch
- Induction:
- 2012
- Class:
- 1962
Three All-Americas, a Big Sky MVP and the college football's top student-athlete from 2001 comprise the 2012 Wendy's Bobcat Hall of Fame induction class.
The 2012 induction ceremonies took place Sept. 14 at MSU's Strand Union Building Ballroom. Former football All-Americas Charlie Jackson and Bob Biastoch, 2001 Division I Academic All-America of the Year Ryan Johnson, 2002 Big Sky Women's Basketball MVP Jessica Blake, All-America pole vaulter Shannon Agee Jones, and the 2002 Big Sky Champion men's cross country earn MSU Athletics' ultimate honor
Just one decade ago, the heroics of Johnson and the '02 men's cross country squad, along with the MSU men's and women's basketball programs, produced one of the most memorable weekends in Bobcat history. On Nov. 23, 2002, the MSU football team beat the Grizzlies 10-7 in Missoula to claim a share of the Big Sky Championship and vault the team into the Division I-AA Playoffs. Johnson's gritty 132-yard rushing effort was central to that stunning win, which preceded by 24 hours a Bobcat men's win at Washington. One day later, MSU's men's cross country team finished 11th in the NCAA Championships, still one of the crowning moments in Bobcat history, and that evening the MSU women topped Washington State at home.
While that late fall weekend in 2002 represents the Bobcat glory days to some, an earlier generation celebrated MSU's football success of the late 1950s as the finest era in school history. During Jackson's four years as a starting lineman and linebacker at Montana State, rolled up a 31-6-1 record, which included the 1956 National Championship. Jackson's senior season, 1959, a group of young players led by heralded recruit Bob Biastoch arrived. Both Jackson and Biastoch earned honorable mention All-America honors at MSU.
Agee Jones and Blake represented a wave of incredibly accomplished female student-athletes that began claiming national acclaim.
Bob Biastoch, FB, 1959-61: After completing one of the legendary careers in Montana prep history to that point at Butte High School, where he was an all-state and honorable mention high school All-America, Bob Biastoch joined the Bobcat varsity in 1959, playing alongside another Butte High legend, Sonny Holland, and fellow Wendy's Bobcat Hall of Fame inductee Charlie Jackson. Biastoch started all three seasons at Montana State, earning honorable mention mid-bracket All-America honors in 1959 and '60. He was recognized as a tackle that blended power and speed in MSU's option-based attack. Hometown: Butte, MT Pronounced: BYE-uh-stock
The 2012 induction ceremonies took place Sept. 14 at MSU's Strand Union Building Ballroom. Former football All-Americas Charlie Jackson and Bob Biastoch, 2001 Division I Academic All-America of the Year Ryan Johnson, 2002 Big Sky Women's Basketball MVP Jessica Blake, All-America pole vaulter Shannon Agee Jones, and the 2002 Big Sky Champion men's cross country earn MSU Athletics' ultimate honor
Just one decade ago, the heroics of Johnson and the '02 men's cross country squad, along with the MSU men's and women's basketball programs, produced one of the most memorable weekends in Bobcat history. On Nov. 23, 2002, the MSU football team beat the Grizzlies 10-7 in Missoula to claim a share of the Big Sky Championship and vault the team into the Division I-AA Playoffs. Johnson's gritty 132-yard rushing effort was central to that stunning win, which preceded by 24 hours a Bobcat men's win at Washington. One day later, MSU's men's cross country team finished 11th in the NCAA Championships, still one of the crowning moments in Bobcat history, and that evening the MSU women topped Washington State at home.
While that late fall weekend in 2002 represents the Bobcat glory days to some, an earlier generation celebrated MSU's football success of the late 1950s as the finest era in school history. During Jackson's four years as a starting lineman and linebacker at Montana State, rolled up a 31-6-1 record, which included the 1956 National Championship. Jackson's senior season, 1959, a group of young players led by heralded recruit Bob Biastoch arrived. Both Jackson and Biastoch earned honorable mention All-America honors at MSU.
Agee Jones and Blake represented a wave of incredibly accomplished female student-athletes that began claiming national acclaim.
Bob Biastoch, FB, 1959-61: After completing one of the legendary careers in Montana prep history to that point at Butte High School, where he was an all-state and honorable mention high school All-America, Bob Biastoch joined the Bobcat varsity in 1959, playing alongside another Butte High legend, Sonny Holland, and fellow Wendy's Bobcat Hall of Fame inductee Charlie Jackson. Biastoch started all three seasons at Montana State, earning honorable mention mid-bracket All-America honors in 1959 and '60. He was recognized as a tackle that blended power and speed in MSU's option-based attack. Hometown: Butte, MT Pronounced: BYE-uh-stock
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