matt prater holds the record for the longest field goal.
matt prater holds the record for the longest field goal.
who holds the record for the longest field goal?
matt prater
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the record for a field goal at any level is 69 yards. it was kicked by ove johansson of the abilene christian university wildcats in the 1976 game against east texas state university lions (now texas a&m university–commerce) in shotwell stadium, abilene, texas.









































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the longest field goal made was 64 yards by matt prater of the denver broncos. the longest field goal attempt in an nfl game was 76 yards by sebastian janikowski on september 28, 2008.
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rowan played football at western illinois university, ncaa div iaa, macomb, illinois. he was a four-year starter and was the first true freshman wiu placekicker since 1990. he set numerous wiu freshman kicking records including, tying the record for most points after touchdown (pats) in a game by a freshman. his freshman season he broke the record for most consecutive pats in a season (47). his first collegiate field goal broke the record for longest field goal by a freshman in school history (47 yards). over the next three (3) years, he was named all-american twice (the sports network and college sporting news), national player of the week 3 times, gateway conference (currently missouri valley football conference) player of the week 3 times, wiu special teams player of the year 3 times and all-conference. he shares the wiu record for longest field goal with mike scrifres at 56 yards and holds the record for longest field goal at hanson field (56 yards). he also holds the wiu and gateway conference single-season record for the most 50-plus-yard field goals in a single season, connecting on six of eight tries from 50-plus yards. he was just two 50-yard field goals from tying the all-time ncaa record of 11 for his career. in his senior campaign, he broke and then set the ncaa fcs record for most consecutive pats (formerly held by chris snyder of montana state), scoring on 129 tries without a miss. he eventually finished his career at 160/162 pats having 2 blocked his senior season. in his college career he set or tied a total of 16 school, conference and national records. in 2010 he was named to the missouri valley, silver anniversary team.
taylor rowan