Auburn's Historic Best PK's and Punters

[AUpocalypse 12]

Terry Daniels- punter

and the place kicker.. too hard to choose from. Del Greco, Wes Byrum, Duval... John Vaughn minus LSU in '05.. Scott Etheridge.. too many that really pulled through for us over the years.

going with Byrum. He beat Florida twice in the same game. His leg brought home our 2nd NC.

[NoALtiger 3,873]

Brian Shulman, Terry Daniel, Lewis Colbert, Cody Bliss

Win Lyle, Scott Ethridge, Jim Von Wyl, Wes Byrum, Jon Vaughn

[au1985 55]

David Beverly was ahead of his time as a punter. Not sure any other Auburn punter had the NFL career David Beverly did. He has been nominated several times for Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. He still has team records while playing at Green Bay in the 1970s. He had amazing hang time and accuracy (inside the 10 and to one side of the field) for his day.

[Mikey 16,777]

Gant kicked for bama, why is he listed with Gardner???

Maybe because he's one of our all-time favorite punters? Does "Punt Bama Punt" ring a bell? You might have to get your giggle goin' a little....

[Abbygpaw 36]

punter - Jon Kilgore

Agree with John Kilgore. On Shug's teams that did not score many points and relied on defense and field position, Kilgore kept the opponent pinned down for 4 quarters.

[AdamsHouseCat 43]

Neil O'Donoghue 9 year NFL career. Should be near the top of the list....

Not to say he wasn't a great kicker, but didn't he transfer to Florida after a disappointing miss against Bama and then turned around and beat us with a field goal?

[AdamsHouseCat 43]

Gant kicked for bama, why is he listed with Gardner???

Surely you jest?

[milehighfan 1,240]

Punter-Terry Daniel

PK-Gardner Jett, will never forget Gary Sanders call when Jett lined up to kick to the game winning EP against the turds in 72. I was at that game as well.

[WarDamnAirForce 23]

Alot of people have Vaughn on their list, but man...I just can't get the 2005 LSU game out of my head...

[Newbomb 193]

Neil O'Donoghue 9 year NFL career. Should be near the top of the list....

Not to say he wasn't a great kicker, but didn't he transfer to Florida after a disappointing miss against Bama and then turned around and beat us with a field goal?

No on the transfer...

[Mikey 16,777]

Neil O'Donoghue 9 year NFL career. Should be near the top of the list....

Not to say he wasn't a great kicker, but didn't he transfer to Florida after a disappointing miss against Bama and then turned around and beat us with a field goal?

No. You are thinking of someone else, whose name doesn't need to be typed here. You are correct on the incident(s), but it wasn't O'Donoghue.

[NoALtiger 3,873]

Alot of people have Vaughn on their list, but man...I just can't get the 2005 LSU game out of my head...

No doubt that was tough to swallow, but his body of work as a whole can't be denied. I believe be was AU's all-time leading scorer when he left.

[CameronCrazy 1,105]

Al Del Greco

Terry Daniels

John Vaughn

Wes Byrum

Neil O'Donaughue

Clyde Bumgartner

Scott Etheridge

Cody Bliss

Jared Holmes

Wyn Lyle

Damon Duval

[douggwilliams 61]

Del Greco and Terry Daniel

Winner.

We have been very blessed to have great kickers through AU history. It always seemed a priority. It won us many games as well.

Edited August 30, 2013 by douggwilliams

[tigerbrotha12 2,362]

Wes Byrum the only one to make a field goal for the national championship

[BirdofPrey76 0]

Who could ever forget the immortal Greg Gillis?!

[BeasFan 3]

As of Post # 41 this is an alphabetized list of the names mentioned in this thread (not counting the ones in quoted portions) with an approximate count of how often they were mentioned:

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Clyde Bumgartner

David Beverly (3)

Cody Bliss (3)

Wes Byrum (7)

Lewis Colbert (3)

Terry Daniel (8)

Al Del Greco (6)

Damon Duval (6)

Scott Etheridge (3)

Greg Gillis

Jared Holmes (2)

Gardner Jett (3)

John Kilgore (2)

Win Lyle (3)

Neil O'Donoghue (3)

George Portella

John "Rat" Riley (2)

Brian Shulman

John Vaughn (5)

Jim Von Wyl

Chris Wilson

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http://www.aufamily....ponents-at-bay/

Punter Steven Clark focused on keeping opponents at bay

Started by quietfan, Jun 19 2012 04:36 PM

These names (minus any counts of frequency) were mentioned:

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David Beverly

Rob Bironas

Dave Blanks

Kody Bliss

Alan Bollinger

Chandler Brooks

Wes Byrum

Matt Clark

Steven Clark

Lewis Colbert

Terry Daniel

Al Del Greco

Chris Dickinson

Tyler DiPace

Clinton Durst

Damon Duval

Scott Etheridge

Michael Gibson

Ross Gornall

Garrett Harper

Matt Hawkins

Jaret Holmes

Morgan Hull

Gardner Jett

Chris Johnson

Jon Kilgore

Chris Knapp

Zach Kutch

Win Lyle

Patrick Martyn

Robert McGinty

Taylor Mosely

Neil O'Donoghue

Cody Parkey

Jorge Portela

John "Rat" Riley

Scott Selman

Ryan Shoemaker

Brian Shulman

Ellis Smith

Graham Sutter

Patrick Tatum

John Vaughn

Woody Woodall

Phillip Yost

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[fredst 9,064]

Neil O'Donoghue 9 year NFL career. Should be near the top of the list....

Not to say he wasn't a great kicker, but didn't he transfer to Florida after a disappointing miss against Bama and then turned around and beat us with a field goal?

That was McGinty. He ruined my freshman year at AU.

[AU64 10,122]

Y'all are too young...surely you remember Ed Dyas ('57-60) ....one of the first really good FG kickers back in the day when 10 or 14 points was usually enough to win a game. He was a great AU man and passed away a couple years ago. .

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20110124/SPORTS0402/101240316/Auburn-football-great-Dyas-dies

[PHXTiger 0]

I see what you did there. For the record, Greg Gantt was one of my favorite punters in an Auburn football game, too.

[trout54 55]

Terry Daniel is also one of the better golfers I have ever played with. Has a tremendous long game. It's a shame he wasn't able to play in the nfl due to injuries. Those same injuries didn't prevent him from playing for us, and it didn't keep him from tearing it up at the combines. There was no "waiver" he could sign.

[Slammer1 409]

Y'all are too young...surely you remember Ed Dyas ('57-60) ....one of the first really good FG kickers back in the day when 10 or 14 points was usually enough to win a game. He was a great AU man and passed away a couple years ago. .

http://www.montgomer...great-Dyas-dies

Not so fast AU64, how about Billy " Ace" Atkins of our '57 NC team .He also played fullback and linebacker. Back when men were men and played both ways. WDE!!!

[AU64 10,122]

Y'all are too young...surely you remember Ed Dyas ('57-60) ....one of the first really good FG kickers back in the day when 10 or 14 points was usually enough to win a game. He was a great AU man and passed away a couple years ago. .

http://www.montgomer...great-Dyas-dies

Not so fast AU64, how about Billy " Ace" Atkins of our '57 NC team .He also played fullback and linebacker. Back when men were men and played both ways. WDE!!!

Yep...those were the days of the old X and Y units and teams where the center usually played linebacker too.

[HSVTIGER 5]

I can't believe nobody mentioned Skip Johnston (Boom it Skip, boom it,) y'all are all hereby banned from J&M Bookstore!

He could launch the most beautiful spirals.

[jordanharehaint 16]

In addition to being a great punter, Baumgartner was also the back-up quarterback. Anyone remember his coming off the bench in 1975 to beat Kentucky with a 72-yard pass to Jeff Gilligan?