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Washington's old-style kicker, Mark Moseley, lifts the uprights...
...Washington, D.C., where many men are famous for putting their foot in it, no one is more renowned at the moment than Washington Redskins Place Kicker Mark Moseley. He has kicked more consecutive field goals than any National Football League kicker before him, and almost all of Moseley's kicks are in the national interest...
Because so much grim business is conducted in this city during the week, Redskin losses on Sunday are ominous events. On Moseley's right leg sways the mood of the Government. Last week, when Moseley broke Garo Yepremian's record of 20 straight field goals, Senators Paul Laxalt and John Warner hurried from the game after the first quarter to vote to keep the Republic going, but were back for the finish. Moseley's third field goal of the day with four seconds left beat the New York Giants, 15-14, and made the record...
...N.F.L. today, soccer-style place kicking is more than the vogue. According to 26 of the 28 teams, it is the superior method. The only two field-goal kickers still swinging their legs straight are Rick Danmeier of the Minnesota Vikings and Moseley. "That's why I was glad to see Moseley get the record," said Lou ("the Toe") Groza, the Cleveland Browns' famed footman, who also played tackle in the '50s. "At least Moseley looks like a football player. I was talking to George Blanda a while back, and he said, 'You know, if they...
...came to regard him as fondly as a pet and eventually forgave him for the blocked-kick touchdown pass he accidentally threw to the Washington Redskins in the 1973 Super Bowl. "Washington is also where my streak ended at 20," he remembers, "but I didn't really mind Moseley breaking my record. A last-second field goal to win the game, that's doing it in style...