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He holds the all-time NCAA record for most punting yards in a season with 4,138 yards in 1938. Pingel was a triple-threat man who also ranked among the NCAA leaders in rushing (7th with an average of 5.0 yards per rush) and passing (7th win an average of 6 completions per game) during the 1938 season.
Sportswriter Ron Higgins would say in 2011, "Few athletes in SEC history enjoyed a better senior year in 1966–67 than Ron in both football and basketball." As a senior in football , he led the nation in punting average at 43.8 yards on 48 punts, while in basketball , he averaged 22.1 points and 8.7 rebounds while leading the Volunteers to a ...
Wide receiver, Punter, Punt returner: Career information; NFL draft: 1947 / round: 9 / pick: 75: Career highlights and awards University of Illinois records Punt return average in a single game - 10/8/1947 (51.0 yards) Punt return average in a season - 1947 (32.8 yards) Longest punt - 11/6/1948 (88 yards) Longest punt return - 11/8/1947 (92 yards)
Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) online. APPLIN, ALBERT GAMMON, II."FROM MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY TO THE MARKET PLACE: THE HISTORY OF MEN'S AND BOY'S BASKETBALL IN THE UNITED STATES, 1891-1957" (PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1982. 8210291).
Sammy Baugh was a 5-time league leader in yards per punt, which is still the most in NFL history, with only one other player ever reaching four seasons leading in yards per punt. His record for yards per punt for a season of 51.4 lasted 82 years. In 1963, Yale Lary became the second player to lead the league yards per punt for a third time.
He finished fourth in the league with a 41.8-yard average on 91 punts, was third in the American Football Conference in net punting with 35.7-yard average and tied for the league lead for punts downed inside the 20-yard line with 27. He had a 58-yard punt against the Miami Dolphins. In 1991, he switched his jersey number from 6 to 7, and went ...
Record keeping for punting yards in the National Football League (NFL) goes as far back as 1939. To be eligible for career-long rankings, a player must have a minimum of 250 punts. [1] Although he never led the league in punting yards for a single-season, Jeff Feagles' longevity propelled him to become the career punting yards leader, with ...
He also led the league for total punts in the 1979 season, and in punting yards in both the 1979 and 1980 seasons. [1] He retired after the 1987 season. After his career playing professional football, Jennings began work as a radio color commentator. He commented on Jets games from 1988 to 2001 for New York sports radio station WFAN. [6]