[Husker] High School Kickers

[gzimmerman at everestkc.net]

Goal posts in the NFL are 18'-6" wide and in the NCAA and High School are 23'-4" wide. 

College and high school goal posts are the same width.

Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
Overland Park, Kansas

----- Original Message -----
From: JEN_SENS <answerman1 at hotmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:43 pm
Subject: [Husker] High School Kickers

> I haven't checked the rules lately, but remember when most of 
> these high 
> school kickers were making 50 yard field goals they were kicking 
> from a two 
> inch tee at goal posts that were almost five feet wider than 
> college kickers 
> have to work with. College kickers kick from the ground. Five feet 
> gives a 
> lot of forgiveness to an errant kick. And of course golfers know 
> the benefit 
> of teeing up the ball over a fairway shot. (Sorry, that is an 
> analogy so it 
> must not be true). ; )