The sports museum that is the Knights of Columbus Hall will now include Butte High’s back-to-back Class AA State championship football teams of 1967 and 1968.
A display honoring those Bulldogs will take place at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25. The public is invited to attend the free event to honor the teams that were inducted into the Butte Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.
In 1967, Coach Bill Kambich’s Bulldogs beat Great Falls High 14-0 in the championship game in Great Falls. Jim Becker scored both Butte High touchdowns in the title game. He led the team with 13 touchdowns that season, and Butte High put up a 9-0-1 record.
The team tied Great Falls Central in a 14-all battle.

Victories that season included a 54-6 win over Missoula Sentinel and a 47-13 win over Billings West. The Bulldogs shutout Missoula Hellgate as well as Great Falls High. They outscored their opponents 287-80 in 10 games.
Sonny Lubick took over as head coach in 1968, and the Bulldogs beat Great Falls High 33-13 in the championship game in Great Falls. Butte Sports Hall of Famer Monte Sever led the way for the Bulldogs in the title game, scoring three touchdowns and racking up 262 yards of offense. Seven scored 16 touchdowns on the season.
The Bulldogs went 10-1 on the season, and the victory in the title game avenged a 14-6 loss to the same Great Falls team a week earlier in Butte. The 10 wins set a school record, and Butte High scored 326 points in those 11 games.
