During Jim Goetz’s first year at Yale Law School, his roommate talked incessantly about Princeton football.

Among the things the roommate — a native of Princeton, New Jersey — boasted about was Charlie Gogolak, a kicker for Princeton and future NFL first-round draft pick in the 1960s. All the Tiger talk annoyed Goetz, a Montana native who spent his undergraduate years at Montana State.

One day in November 1965, Goetz got an opportunity to turn the tables when he read an edition of The New York Times.

“It had a headline of a 59-yard NCAA field goal record by a kid named Stenerud,” Goetz told 406 MT Sports on Sunday. “I took The New York Times and shoved it in (my roommate’s) face. It was a great day.”

That kid was Jan Stenerud, a future college and pro hall-of-famer who starred for MS

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