Wildcatville want to know who was Linfield football’s:
·
LAST varsity football straight-on FG and
PAT kicker?
·
FIRST varsity football soccer-style FG
and PAT kicker?
The last straight-on kicker and first soccer-style kicker were
during Ad Rutschman’s era (1968-1991) as Linfield head football coach.
Wildcatville has been in touch with Coach Rutschman.
The years in parenthesis after the kickers' names below are the
seasons Linfield Athletics said letters were earned. These are kickers only
during Ad Rutschman's time as head coach. For the record, Tim Kubli kicked
three seasons (1965, 1966 and 1967) for Coach Paul Durham and one season (1968)
for Coach Ad Rutschman.
Rest in Peace (name
and date of death)
Kyle Tarpenning (June 30, 2004)
Steve Davis (April 22, 2014)
Larry Zeek (June 5, 2022)
Please contact wildcatville@gmail.com
to provide corrections and/or additions. Thank you.
=Tim Kubli, Class of 1969, straight-on
kicker
(1968)
Wildcatville has been in touch with Tim.
=Steve Davis, Class of 1972, deceased, straight-on kicker
(1969, '70, '71)
=Larry Zeek, Class of 1973, deceased, straight-0n kicker
(1970, '71, '72)
=Rick Hadeen, Class of 1976, straight-on
kicker
(1973, '74, '75)
Rick kicked at least once during the 1972 season. It was the
season’s final game, Linfield vs. Hawaii in Honolulu.
=Tom Sybouts, Class of 1980, straight-on
kicker
(1976, '77, '78, '79)
Wildcatville has been in touch with Tom. He thinks Kyle Tarpenning
was Linfield’s last straight-on kicker.
=Kyle Tarpenning, Class of
1983, deceased. MIGHT be Linfield football’s last straight-on kicker
(1979, '80, '81, '82)
=John Gray, Class of 1986. MIGHT be
Linfield football’s first soccer-style kicker
(1983, '84, '85)
=Greg Gulliford, Class of
1990, soccer-style kicker
(1986, '87, '88, '89)
=Brooke Knight, Class
of 1994, soccer-style kicker
(1990)
Wildcatville has been in touch with Brooke, who attended
Linfield 1990-1991
=Kunle Thomas, Class of
1974 , soccer-style kicker
(1991, ‘92, ‘93)
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