Say what you want about placekickers, but there’s no doubting one thing: Penn’s got a good one.
Yesterday, Quakers senior kicker Andrew Samson was named to the Fred Mitchell Award Watch List, the latest honor in the career of perhaps the greatest kicker in Penn history.
Forty kickers from around the nation made the list for the Mitchell Award, which is presented to the country’s top placekicker among over 600 FCS, Division I and II and NAIA teams.
Samson, an All-American last season, holds Penn’s single-season field goals record with 16 in 2008, and needs just eight this season to break the Penn record for a career, currently held by Jason Feinberg (1998-2000) with 41.
The West Bloomfield, Mich., native also holds the school record for most consecutive PATs made, which stands at 74 after he went 25-for-25 in ‘09.
The award “will be chosen based on excellence on the football field and in the community,” a Fred Mitchell Award press release said.
Top performers among the 40 on the watch list will be recognized monthly, and the winner will be announced in mid-December.
Samson and the Quakers kick off September 18.
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