Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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FOOTBALL | Mante: behind the kick

Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, October 23, 2008

Tom Mante ’10, kicker and punter on the Yale football team, talks with the News about his role on the team this season, his superstitious kicking rituals and his life outside of football.

Q: This season you have been a huge factor for the team, as exemplified by your game-winning field goal in the nail-biter against Holy Cross. Have you received due acknowledgment from your teammates?

A: Kicker is kind of one of those positions where you go unnoticed unless you mess up. I wouldn’t say they completely forgot about me before, but they have realized the importance of a kicker...

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