Spencer Marta
Mrs. Sukstorf
ELA - period 7
Jan. 26, 2023
What Are The Different Ways To kick a Football Could you imagine how football would be changed without field goals, it would be a lot different. A lot of important history would be lost if that was true. The history of field goals are important because of all the things that have changed about them. These are things like kickers and the different ways that they kicked the football.
Field goals are one of the most important parts of football due to the fact that they can often be a last minute game winner, there can also be many ways to kick them such as the soccer kick the drop kick and the straight toe kick.
The first field goal kicking technique used in football was the drop kick which is where you drop the ball and kick it right after it hits the ground, it is a very difficult kick to master because of the technique because you have to drop it and kick it just right. There is also lots of history behind the drop kick. The drop kick was the most common kicking method in the 1920s and 1930s mainly because during that time the footballs had a lot rounder tips and could be bounced at the right angle consistently. The last dropkick was believed to be in December 21, 1941 and was performed by Ray McLean but a long time later in 2006 Doug Flutie preformed a successful drop kick
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One of these important methods being the drop kick method which is one of the oldest methods in football history, and is very difficult to master. Then there is the straight toe method that had lots of unique kickers like Tom Dempsey who had no toes on his right foot. Finally there is the soccer method that got popular in the 1960’s and has stuck around all the way to todays football where it is the most used method. Without all of these great kickers and the methods they used a lot of football history would be