Everett Sweeley Everett Marlin Sweeley ( March 4 , 1880 – September 2 , 1957 ) was an American football player and coach . He played fullback , halfback and end for the University of Michigan from 1899 to 1902 and was a member of Fielding H . Yost ' s 1901 and 1902 " Point - a - Minute " teams . He then served as the head football coach at Morningside College in 1903 and at Washington State University in 1904 and 1905 . He also coached basketball and baseball at Washington State . After retiring from football , Sweeley became a lawyer and judge in Idaho . Biography . Early years . Sweeley was born in Adel , Iowa in 1880 . At the time of the 1885 Iowa State Census , Sweeley was living in Storm Lake , Iowa . He attended high school at Sioux City , Iowa . University of Michigan . Sweeley enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1899 . He played four years of football at Michigan from 1899 – 1902 at the end , fullback , and halfback positions , but he was best known as one of the game ' s premier punter s and placekicker s . Before enrolling at Michigan , Sweeley said he had never seen a college football game . In four seasons , he missed only one game , the result of what Sweeley called " a little row with a math professor . " While playing for Michigan , Sweeley set the college football record for the longest kick on record . In 1902 , he kicked the football 86 yards before touching the ground . Sweeley also held " an enviable distinction unboasted by any other hero of the gridiron . " In four years punting for Michigan , he never had a single punt blocked . Sweeley was known for punts that were both high and long . He would reportedly tell his ends accurately where each punt was to go , " and by this concerted action Michigan gained many yards . " Sweeley was also " an expert place kicker , " scoring over 100 points for Michigan in this manner . A 1906 newspaper feature reported that his greatest talent was " the running punt trick , " a play in which Sweeley would run a ball " until he was hard pressed and then kick , often thus adding many yards to the ground gained . " In the 1902 Rose Bowl , Sweeley kicked four field goals and punted 21 times for a 38 . 9 - yard average . A newspaper story in 1950 reported on Sweeley ' s kicking ability : " Sweeley , a truly great kicker in the days when the ball resembled a pumpkin rather than the tapered oblate spheroid now in use , introduced the spiral pant to Coast fans that memorable day [ in the 1902 Rose Bowl ] . His towering punts outdistanced the end - over - end kicks of the Indians by 20 yards . " Coach . After graduating from Michigan , Sweeley went into coaching . He served as the head football coach at Morningside College in Sioux City , Iowa for a season in 1903 and then moved to Washington State University in Pullman , Washington for the 1904 and 1905 seasons . His coaching record at Washington State was 6 wins , 6 losses , and 0 ties . Later years . After retiring from coaching , Sweeley moved to Twin Falls , Idaho where he worked as a lawyer . In September 1907 , he married Hazel Jury Brown ( 1886 – 1972 ) at Spokane , Washington . According to the 1920 United States Census , Sweeley and his wife had two children at that time , Jean B Sweeley ( age 9 ) and Anna L . Sweeley ( age 6 ) . Sweeley also became an expert trap shooter and ballistics expert . In 1916 , he won the interstate trapshooting championship . He was elected prosecutor in 1938 . In his draft registration card signed in April 1942 , Sweeley listed his residence as Twin Falls , his employer as the County of Twin Falls , and his place of employment as the County Courthouse in Twin Falls . In 1952 , Sweeley attended a reunion in California of the 1902 Rose Bowl team . At the time , Sweeley was a practicing attorney living in Twin Falls , and was recalled as " a great punter back at the turn of the century . " He served as a probate judge in the mid - 1950s .