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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.
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).
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 ...
The award given to the best punter in college football is the Ray Guy Award, which is telling. Guy died at age 72, according to the NFL and University of Southern Mississippi .
Jake Ford (born January 22, 1993) is an Australian former professional gridiron football punter who played for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected by the Lions with the first overall pick in the inaugural CFL global draft in 2021. He played college football at Oregon, St. Augustine's, and Ouachita Baptist.
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.
Paul McCallum would finish the 2011 CFL season making 50 of 53 field goal attempts, for a career best 94.3% accuracy. He was recognized for his success when he was named the CFL's Most Outstanding Special Teams player for 2011. Following up his career season with another solid season in the 2012 CFL season. He amassed 44 successful field goals ...
Dickson punted the ball a career-high 83 times for 3,895 yards during the 2021 season, an average of 46.9 yards per punt. He pinned 40 punts inside the opponents' 20-yard line, the most in the league that season, and the 10th most in a single season in NFL history. [43] [44] In the 2022 season, Dickson punted 66 times for a 48.47 average. [45]