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Originally Posted by lostbuckfan
Sorry to show my age.
One name of someone who punted and kicked for OSU that comes to mind is Tom Skladany. He was a tremendous player whose career overlapped with Archie's, who was not only a 2 or 3 time All American punter for the Bucks (and future NFL All-Pro with the Lions) but also had a strong placekicking leg. Don't know if his kick at Illinois in '75 is still the OSU record, but it went for 58 or 59 yards (it was longer than Nugent's kick against Marshall). |
Skladany's role as a placekicker was primarily to kick off. He did have some long field goal attempts.
Watching those teams warm up, the most impressive thing was watching Skladany. Bomb after bomb with serious hang time.
I remember him kicking a few through the uprights on kickoffs (from the 40 in those days, though)
He was unarguably tOSU's best-ever punter. Just as the Nuge is unarguably tOSU's best-ever placekicker.
Nuge's 54 yarder against Marshall would have been good from close to 70 yards. And I remember a 48 yarder or so that hit way up on the flagpole in the closed end - hadn't even hardly started to come down yet.
Didn't Ben kick a 53 and 58 yarder in camp this summer? We are going to be spoiled for years to come.