Libby’s Rambo among 8 inducted into Montana Pro Football Hall

BILLINGS — Dan Rambo, a 1970 Libby graduate who carried the football for the Loggers and Carroll College Saints, was inducted into the Montana Professional Football Hall of Fame Saturday.

Rambo was selected as a “Support” inductee, for his contributions to pro football over 23 seasons. He was general manager of the CFL Saskatchewan Rough Riders from 1983-90 and 1994-97 and had the same job with Ottawa from 1991-92. He also spent 1990 in scouting and operations for the World Football League, and was a regional scout for the NFL’s Denver Broncos from 1998-2006.

A profile on 406mtsports.com also noted that after starring at Libby, Rambo was a three-time first-team All-Frontier Conference selection at Carroll. After he averaged an NAIA-best 152 rushing yards a game in 1974 — he finished with a school-record 2,695 rushing yards — Rambo received NFL tryouts with the Broncos, New York Giants, Green Packers and Oakland Raiders, as well as Saskatchewan and Calgary of the CFL and the WFL’s Philadelphia Bell.

Since 2008 Rambo has been managing partner of FBX, a web-based software company.

He was one of eight inductees Saturday at the Billings Hotel & Convention Center.

The players were Montana Grizzlies Dallas Neil and Colt Anderson, Montana State Bobcats Mike Person and Al Wilson and MSU-Billings (then Eastern Montana College) product Lynn Ahrens.

Ahrens, out of Wolf Point, played football (and some basketball) at EMC from 1969-72 and was drafted by the San Diego Chargers.

Wilson, a British Columbia native, was a lineman at MSU before playing 15 years with the BC Lions; he was elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1997.

Person, of Glendive, was a standout lineman at MSU as well before playing six seasons in the NFL, with five different teams. He played in 73 games and made 48 starts..

Anderson, the Butte Missile, played safety for eight seasons with three NFL teams. He saw action in 84 games, with seven starts, and was a special teams standout.

Neill, a Great Falls product, was a standout tight end and receiver for the Grizzlies who played six games with Atlanta in 2000.

Two more men were inducted as Legacies: the late Allen “Big Al” Reynolds of Billings and Alyn “Sonny” Holland, the legendary MSU coach out of Butte.