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1913 Boston Globe 30 Nov. 17/3 (headline) Roughing the kicker... Stagg would have rule so amended that it need not be so severely enforced... Under the present ruling a player who merely bumps the kicker..should be put out of the game.

1938 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Oct. 12/6 Brooks, of Yale, broke through and rushed the kicker... Being unable to stop himself in midair, he naturally crashed into the kicker, and Michigan was given the ball for roughing the punter.

1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 371 Roughing the kicker (football), making unnecessary bodily contact with the punter, which is illegal.

1973 Houston Chron. 14 Oct. (Suppl.) 5/1 One team's kicker had not punted the entire evening. He had, however, drawn eight roughing-the-kicker penalties.

1976 Webster's Sports Dict. 357/1 Roughing the kicker (football), a personal foul that results when a defensive player runs into or knocks down the kicker on a scrimmage kick without first touching or deflecting the ball... When it is called, the penalty is 15 yards from the previous spot.

1994 Independent (Nexis) 1 Feb. 35 The Bills also rode their luck. A fourth-down, roughing-the-kicker penalty kept alive a drive which culminated in Thomas's four-yard TD run.