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Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970). Cal Poly Mustangs football team: 16 players and 6 others died in an airplane crash (1960). Southwestern Oklahoma State: 4 football players were killed in a car crash (1996).
Legendary Southern Miss punter and athlete Ray Guy died on Thursday, the school announced. Guy is a Pro Football Hall of Famer and an all-time great. Ray Guy, Southern Miss legend and Hall of Fame ...
The Packers' regular placekicker, Don Chandler, was an All-Pro punter with the New York Giants but Vince Lombardi brought Chandler in from his old team to serve exclusively as a kicker after Paul Hornung, who set the NFL single-season scoring record with 176 points in 12 games in 1960, was suspended for gambling in 1963 and suffered a sharp ...
After spending the 1951 season with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the eastern Canadian pro league, Brady played for the Steelers during the 1952, 1953, and 1954 seasons, leading the league in punting in 1953 and 1954 and averaging 44.5 yards for his three years. A torn Achilles tendon during the 1955 pre-season ended his career.
Ray Guy, the first punter to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame, died Thursday. In 2014, he became the first player to make be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame exclusively for his punting.
Guy was the first punter ever to be selected in the first round in the NFL draft, when the Oakland Raiders selected him with the 23rd overall pick of the 1973 draft. [15] In his career as a punter, Guy played his entire career with the Raiders and was selected to seven Pro Bowl teams, including six in a row from 1973 to 1978. [16]
David Carl Mann (June 2, 1932 – May 22, 2012) was an American professional gridiron football halfback and punter in the NFL and CFL.Mann was one of the first two black players to play college football for Oregon State College (OSC), helping to break the color barrier there in 1951.
He helped lead the 2007 Patriots to a 16–0 regular season record, an AFC Championship, and a trip to Super Bowl XLII. In 2008 , Hanson finished with a 43.7 punt average and was named AFC Special Teams Player of the Week in Week 17, averaging 45 yards a punt in wind gusts up to 60 mph. Hanson finished the 2009 season with a 39.7 punt average ...